At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage payroll processing and ensure employees are paid accurately and on time.
- Company: Join a large, fast-paced retail organisation with a supportive Pay & Benefits team.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Diverse workplace committed to equality and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring payroll accuracy across multiple locations.
- Qualifications: Experience in UK payroll processing and strong attention to detail required.
The predicted salary is between 36000 - 44000 £ per year.
Pay & Benefits Administrator
Salary
Location
Livingston, West Lothian
Hybrid
2 days office / 3 days home
Contract
Permanent, Full-Time
The Role
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Payroll Administrator to join an established Pay & Benefits team within a large, fast-paced retail organisation.
You’ll support the end-to-end processing of high-volume payrolls across the UK, Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time.
Reporting to the Payroll Manager, this is a varied position covering payroll processing, pensions, benefits administration and employee queries.
Key Responsibilities
- Process end-to-end payrolls across multiple payrolls and locations.
- Manage starters, leavers, timesheets, absences and contractual changes.
- Calculate statutory payments, including SSP, SMP, SPP and SAP.
- Process tax codes, student loans, deductions and employee benefits.
- Administer pensions, auto-enrolment and pension reconciliations.
- Complete payroll checks, reconciliations and variance reporting.
- Support HMRC submissions, including FPS, EPS and year-end requirements.
- Handle employee payroll and benefits queries, resolving discrepancies.
- Maintain accurate payroll records and support HR and Finance reporting.
- Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes and efficiency.
- Ideal Candidate
- Previous end-to-end UK payroll processing experience.
- Experience working within a high-volume or multi-site payroll environment advantageous.
- Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation, statutory payments and HMRC requirements.
- Good knowledge of pensions and auto-enrolment.
- Confident completing payroll reconciliations and resolving discrepancies.
- Dayforce experience highly desirable but not essential.
- Strong Excel and payroll systems skills.
- Excellent attention to detail, organisation and communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently and managing strict payroll deadlines.
JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.
We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.
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