HR and Payroll specialist

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Job Title: HR and Payroll specialist

Location: Gray’s Inn Road, London

Full time/Permanent/HybridEH2 #KantarMedia

This is a full-time permanent position, based in our London office. We operate in a hybrid capacity and require 2 days in the office. All applicants must have the legal right to live and work in the UK.

Role Description:

Kantar Media is looking for a well-organised, proactive, and enthusiastic individual to join our HR team. This role will play a key part in supporting day-to-day HR operations, with a strong focus on payroll-related tasks. You will assist in running payroll reports, preparing and sending payroll data, and working closely with external payroll providers to ensure accuracy and timely delivery. In addition to payroll, you’ll support other parts of the employee lifecycle, maintain accurate HR data, and help deliver a smooth experience for colleagues. This is a great opportunity for someone early in their HR career who is detail-oriented, eager to learn, and looking to grow in a supportive and fast-paced environment.

Role Responsibilities:

• Support the HR Lead in liaising with external payroll providers to help ensure payroll is processed accurately and on time across Europe and Asia.
• Assist with payroll-related tasks such as preparing data, checking reports, and helping ensure compliance with local tax and labour regulations.
• Provide administrative support across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, changes, benefits, and offboarding.
• Help maintain and update employee records in the HRIS, ensuring accuracy and supporting regular data checks and reports.
• Assist in ensuring HR processes align with company policies and local employment laws by supporting documentation and compliance tasks.
• Respond to basic employee queries related to payroll, benefits, and HR policies, escalating more complex issues to the HR Lead.
• Help prepare HR documentation required for audits and internal reviews.
• Support smooth payroll processes during employee onboarding and offboarding by gathering necessary information and tracking progress.
• Assist with benefits administration tasks, including tracking enrolments and resolving simple queries.
• Maintain accurate and confidential employee files, both digital and physical.
• Provide administrative support to managers and HRBPs with employee relations documentation (e.g., letters, meeting notes).

Required:

• Good communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to interact professionally with colleagues at all levels.
• Some exposure to or understanding of payroll processes, benefits, and local employment regulations, with a willingness to learn and support compliance.
• Able to follow established service standards and contribute to delivering a consistent and professional HR experience.
• Comfortable using HR and payroll systems (e.g., Workday, ServiceNow, ADP) or eager to quickly learn new tools and platforms.
• Motivated to grow professionally, open to feedback, and enthusiastic about learning and improving processes.
• Team-oriented and helpful, supporting others to achieve shared goals and contributing to a positive team environment.
• Strong attention to detail, with a focus on accuracy and consistency in daily tasks and data entry.
• Understands the importance of meeting deadlines and delivering work on time, especially when supporting agreed service levels.
• Comfortable working with data, with the ability to spot errors and support basic reporting tasks.
• Able to assist in creating simple presentations or documents to share updates or information with the team or other departments.

At Kantar Media we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

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At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

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