Payroll Administrator

The Methodist Church in Britain; West Malling; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Professional development

Health plan & 24h GP

Life assurance

Shopping and leisure discounts

Cycle to work

NHS employee discounts

Wellness toolkit

Job summary

Cygnet Health Care is seeking a Payroll Administrator to manage the full end-to-end payroll cycle. The role is full-time (37.5 hours) with hybrid working, two days in the office per week, and a focus on accuracy and compliance.

The successful candidate will handle starters and leavers, statutory payments, pension changes, salary sacrifice, and deductions, ensuring NLW compliance and reporting any discrepancies to the Payroll Manager.

Qualifications

• Experience as a payroll administrator
• Enhanced DBS check

Responsibilities

• Run the full end-to-end pay cycle
• Add starters, leavers, and contractual and personal detail changes
• Process statutory payments
• Process pension changes, including opt-ins and opt-outs
• Process salary sacrifice arrangements and deductions
• Pay for hours worked, allowances and bonuses
• Process deductions in line with regulatory requirements
• Review pay cycle information for NLW breaches
• Identify and report over- and underpayments with evidence
• Ensure appropriate local authorisation for payrolls
• Process supplementary payments with back-up documentation
• Process manual payments in the next run

Skills

Organisational skills

Planning

Communication skills

Report writing

MS Office

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

Adaptability

Problem solving

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

This Payroll Administrator role at Cygnet Health Care, a provider of specialist mental health, autism and learning disability services, is a full-time post of 37.5 hours a week. The post-holder runs the full end-to-end pay cycle, covering starters and leavers, pension changes, statutory payments, salary sacrifice and deductions, and checks each run for errors and National Living Wage breaches. The role is hybrid, with two days a week at the office. Successful candidates must pass an enhanced DBS check.

What the job involves

• Run the full end-to-end pay cycle
• Add starters, leavers, and contractual and personal detail changes
• Process statutory payments
• Process pension changes, including opt‑ins, opt‑outs and employee requests
• Process salary sacrifice arrangements, ensuring National Living Wage compliance
• Process pay for hours worked, allowances, bonuses and other amounts requested by the business
• Process deductions in line with applicable regulatory requirements
• Review pay cycle information and monitor cycles for National Living Wage breaches, resolving inconsistencies, errors and inefficiencies
• Identify and report over‑ and underpayments to the Payroll Manager with sufficient evidence
• Ensure all payrolls have the appropriate level of local authorisation
• Process supplementary payments with back‑up documentation where required
• Process manual payments raised outside the pay cycle correctly in the subsequent run

What’s required

Experience

• Experience as a payroll administrator

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent organisational and planning skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, including report writing
• Competent with Microsoft Office
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Confidentiality and adaptability
• Problem analysis, problem solving, and information gathering and monitoring

Checks & eligibility

• Enhanced DBS check

What’s offered

• Pension scheme
• Expert supervision and support, plus apprenticeship and professional development opportunities
• Free health cash plan and 24‑hour GP support line
• Free life assurance and free eye tests
• Discounts on shopping, travel, leisure, car leases and gym membership
• Free mortgage broker and insurance cover
• Cycle to Work scheme and NHS employee discount savings
• Smart Health Toolkit with fitness programmes, nutrition consultations and health checks