Payroll Specialist

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc. When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.

Salary Grade: £41,593 + depending on experience

Location: Peterborough, UK

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Up to 10% Bonus
• Contributory pension scheme – Caterpillar will double the employee's contribution
• Up to 10% Contributory share scheme – Caterpillar will match 50% of the employee's contribution
• Optional flexible benefits including access to health and dental care plans, EV car lease, holiday purchase
• Employee Referral Program

About Caterpillar: Caterpillar Inc. is the world’s leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off‑highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel‑electric locomotives. For nearly 100 years, we’ve been helping customers build a better, more sustainable world and are committed to a reduced‑carbon future.

The Opportunity: Are you an experienced payroll professional eager to take charge of end‑to‑end payroll processing? We are seeking a skilled and detail‑oriented individual to manage our comprehensive payroll operations and services. If you are passionate about accuracy, compliance, and providing excellent employee support, and are excited to join an international payroll team covering EAME but based from Peterborough, we would love to hear from you!

What You Will Do:

• Managing the payroll cycle, from data collection to disbursement
• Creating and maintaining payroll reports and records
• Ensuring payroll accuracy and compliance with regulations
• Assisting in payroll audits
• Enforcing internal payroll controls
• Addressing employee payroll inquiries

What You Will Have:

• Service Excellence: Knowledge of customer service concepts and techniques; ability to meet or exceed customer needs and expectations and provide excellent service in a direct or indirect manner.
• Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision.
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision‑making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors.
• Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations.
• Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way.
• Payroll Management: Knowledge of payroll policy and methods; ability to use tools, techniques and processes to manage employee payroll and benefits operations.
• Payroll Administration: Knowledge of policies, operations and standards related to payroll; ability to establish, implement, and administer policies, procedures and systems for confidentially calculating, preparing and distributing payrolls.

Not essential but desirable skills:

• Knowledge of Germany or Slovak payroll processes and relevant legislation.
• Additional language skills are a plus.

What You Will Get: We look forward to welcoming the successful candidate to our dynamic, diverse and friendly team. We have a culture of openness, autonomy, support, personal development as well as a continuous drive for improvement. This role provides exposure to global teams, offering strong development opportunities within Caterpillar’s Finance function. Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.