HR Administrator

BAM UK & Ireland; Farnborough; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Family-friendly policies

8% matched pension

Private healthcare

Life assurance

26 days holiday

Wellbeing days

Volunteering day

Development opportunities

Job summary

BAM UK & Ireland is seeking an experienced HR Benefits Administrator to join our HR team in Farnborough. This hybrid role combines office-based and homeworking with a flexible schedule.

You will reconcile payroll and provider data, respond to HR queries, and administer Benifex and other benefits systems, while maintaining accurate records and supporting process improvements across the benefits function.

Qualifications

• Experience in benefits administration.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Able to meet payroll cut-off dates.
• Highly organized with multiple priorities.
• Experience reconciling data across systems.
• Works well both independently and in a team.

Responsibilities

• Invoice and report reconciliation between payroll and provider reports.
• Respond to queries from the HR inbox.
• Administer the Benifex benefits system (life events, pensions, employee data).
• Attend meetings with Benifex supplier, third-party vendors, and stakeholders.
• Maintain records and spreadsheets including tax compliance and term-time staff.
• Manage third-party systems (Reward Gateway, Irish Life, EdenRed).
• Use BAM People (SuccessFactors) for HR data.
• Escalate complex queries to the appropriate department.
• Investigate and resolve benefits system breaches (e.g. NMW issues).
• Collaborate with Compensation and Benefits to keep system content current.
• Manage leavers’ benefit cost recovery process.
• Support ad-hoc tasks, reporting, and data analysis.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of benefits processes.

Skills

Benefits administration

Excel skills

Data analysis

Stakeholder communication

Payroll familiarity

Data reconciliation

Independent working

Tools

BAM People (SuccessFactors)

Benifex

Reward Gateway

Irish Life

EdenRed

Job description

Building a sustainable tomorrow

HR Benefits Administrator

BAM UK & Ireland’s Infrastructure segment is currently seeking an experienced HR Benefits Administrator to join our HR team at our office in Farnborough. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is eager to learn and grow within a dynamic and supportive environment.

Your team

• Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5:00pm
• Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days in the Farnborough office, 2 days working from home

Making Possible

As an HR Benefits Administrator, your key responsibilities will include:

• Invoice and report reconciliation - ensuring accuracy between payroll and provider reports
• Managing and responding to queries from the shared HR inbox
• Administration of the Benifex benefits system (e.g. approving life events, enrolling in pension schemes, updating employee data)
• Regular meetings with the Benifex supplier, third-party vendors, and internal stakeholders
• Maintaining accurate records and spreadsheets, including tax compliance, career breaks, long-term sickness, and term-time employees
• Managing third-party systems such as Reward Gateway, Irish Life, and EdenRed (childcare vouchers)
• Using internal HR systems such as BAM People (SuccessFactors)
• Escalating complex queries to appropriate departments or vendors
• Investigating and resolving benefits system breaches, such as National Minimum Wage issues
• Collaborating with the Compensation and Benefits team to keep the benefits system content and policies current
• Managing the leavers process for outstanding benefit cost recovery
• Supporting with ad-hoc tasks, reporting, and data analysis as needed
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, helping to enhance benefits processes, controls and employee experience.

What do you bring to the role?

Essential

• experience in benefits administration
• Strong analytical and Excel skills (manual calculations, data analysis, large volumes of data)
• Problem-solving ability, investigating and resolving issues particularly with system and inbox queries
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to meet tight deadlines and work to payroll cut-off dates
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage a varied workload and competing priorities
• Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team
• Strong numerical and analytical skills, with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Takes ownership of their work and actively identifies opportunities to improve processes
• Experience reconciling data across multiple systems and identifying discrepancies

Desirable

• Experience uploading and manipulating large datasets in Excel
• Familiarity with or experience of payroll processes
• Proficiency with Excel functions, especially VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, and data reconciliation
• Experience with HR, payroll or benefits systems (preferably within a large organisation)
• Familiarity with P11D processing and benefits-related tax implications
• Experience working with flexible benefits platforms
• Knowledge of benefits administration policies

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary
• A wide range of family-friendly policies
• 8 % matched pension contributions
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance
• 26 days holiday
• 2 wellbeing days
• 1 volunteering day
• Personal and professional development

About BAM

Building a sustainable tomorrow. That's our mission and our promise at BAM. It's how we engineer vital infrastructure and construct high-quality buildings as one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

We strive to create an environment where everybody feels welcome and valued. We're on an exciting journey to employ the best talent to join us regardless of social background, race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or other characteristics.

BAM is committed to ensuring a fully inclusive recruitment and onboarding process, so if at anytime you feel you may need any reasonable adjustments, do not hesitate to speak with one of our team, and we will do our best to support you.