Senior Payroll Administrator

This role does not provide visa sponsorship.

We are looking for a Payroll Administrator to join our central Payroll team at Laing O'Rourke's Head Office in Dartford. In this key role, you will be part of the team responsible for ensuring that around 10,000 staff and operatives are paid accurately and on time every time. You will play a vital part in delivering an excellent payroll service, supporting colleagues and stakeholders across the business. This is a fast-paced and rewarding role, ideal for someone who thrives under pressure, takes pride in getting the details right, and enjoys being part of a collaborative, high-performing team.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership and responsibility for delivering payroll on a timely basis.
• Processing New Starters, Leavers, Timesheets, Statutory Payments, Termination Payments, Costing.
• Running reports, analysing and sanity checking.
• Ensure payroll remains internally and externally compliant.
• Contribute to the general housekeeping and administrative duties to ensure department remains efficient, effective, and professional.

Key Skills:

• Experience of paying medium/large transient workforce.
• Able to work methodically, logically, and tidily.
• Excel to minimum of intermediate standard.
• Word Processing to high standard.
• Good communication skills.
• Able to build and maintain good customer relationships.
• Strong operational work ethic - robust - hands on - can do - delivery paramount.

Systems in Use:

• iTrent from Midland HR.
• SAP reporting.

Don’t match all the criteria? We are open and always happy to hear from people with transferable skill sets and a commitment to learning.

As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme’. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace. We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com.