Payroll Specialist - Central London (37.5 hours)

The Payroll Specialist will help process and manage payroll cycles for UK (frontline + head office team) and Ireland (frontline teams), benefits and pensions schemes and all associated reporting. You will be the main point of contact for all Payroll, Pensions & Benefits questions and queries for our UK and Ireland markets.

Key Accountabilities:

• Assisting the Payroll Manager with end to end payroll processing for UK and Ireland Markets, and can deputise when needed.
• Second line of support for Payroll queries including Tax, Pension, P11D, PSA and P60 processes.
• Responsible for leaver calculations and salary certification.
• Managing the Payroll/HR Inbox.
• Responsible for the overall management of our internal HR systems (ADP GlobalView and ADP Streamline).
• Responsible for assisting with benefits administration (Pension, Holiday Purchase Scheme)
• Develop new operational policies, procedures, guidelines and ways of working to build the payroll operations function.
• Renews and optimises exisiting business processes to achieve both accuracy and effiency through innotiate solutions.
• Assist with HR/Payroll projects in line with UK and Ireland legislation laws to ensure full business GDPR compliancy.
• Collaborate with the global Payroll te team and other stakeholders to improve and develop ways of working on both a local and global level.
• Liaise with external individuals such as 3rd party providers (payroll and benefits)
• Provide operation advice to the Head of HR, HRBP and other internal stakeholders across various LOBs.
• Make improvements to exisiting data usage and build data accuracy workflow (Headcount, payroll, retention, DE&I)

Qualifications

• Strong retail payroll background with a proven track record of managing end to end payroll cycles.
• Has end of year reporting, P11d, PSA and P60 experience.
• Has good benefits administration experience (Pension schemes).
• Has extensive experience with Payroll systems SAP (ADP/GV highly desirable).
• Can demonstrate a solid understanding of current employment legislation for both UK and Ireland markets.
• Articulate with excellent written communication skills, and good eye for detail
• Excellent organisational skills and efficient with a great sense of humour, empathy and work ethic.
• Open to feedback with a focus on continuous improvement in all areas of their work.
• Excellent Microsoft Office computer and preferably advanced Excel skills.