Payroll Analyst - 12 Months Full Time Contract

Barclays; Northampton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Payroll Specialist to manage payroll functions, ensuring compliance and accuracy in payments. The role involves overseeing post-payroll activities, driving process improvements, and collaborating with various teams to enhance operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of payroll administration and support.
• Proven success in driving process and procedural change initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Managing payroll functions, including calculating employee pay and withholding taxes.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory filings and managing responses to government notices.
• Providing guidance and support to employees on payroll matters.

Skills

Payroll Administration

Decision-Making

Influencing

Negotiation

Process Improvement

Job description

This role supports senior team members in managing UK and Crown Dependency payrolls, leading the transition of Crown Dependency payroll to the EME team. Responsibilities include managing post-payroll activities, ensuring accurate and timely payments and submissions to HMRC and vendors, and collaborating with the Control team to complete monthly processes efficiently. The role also involves reviewing working instructions, the governance calendar, and ensuring timely HMRC returns.

Key tasks include overseeing monthly post-payroll activities, providing support and guidance, implementing operational governance, ensuring team readiness for change, driving development, and maintaining compliance with legislative and policy requirements. Collaboration with Continuous Improvement and Change Teams and contributing to projects are also essential.

To be successful as a Payroll Specialist, you must have experience with:

• Extensive experience of payroll administration and support, with expertise level experience.
• Decision-making that accounts for policy, legislation, operational performance, and team deliverables.
• Influencing and negotiating with senior management.
• Proven success in driving process and procedural change initiatives from conception to implementation.

You may be assessed on key skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, and job-specific technical skills.

Contract Details: 12 Months Full-Time Contract - Northampton

Purpose of the role

To manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, and maintaining accurate payroll records.

Accountabilities

• Processing payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees, including tax calculations and contributions.
• Managing employee payroll records and troubleshooting issues.
• Providing guidance and support to employees on payroll matters.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory filings and managing responses to government notices.
• Handling payroll statutory reporting and liaising with tax authorities.

Analyst Expectations

• Perform activities timely and to a high standard, driving continuous improvement.
• Possess in-depth technical knowledge and experience.
• Lead and support a team, guiding development and coordinating resources.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• Develop technical expertise or act as an advisor.
• Impact related teams and partner with other functions.
• Take responsibility for operational results and escalate issues appropriately.
• Embed new policies and manage risks and controls.
• Advise on decision-making and ensure compliance with rules and regulations.
• Understand how the sub-function contributes to organizational objectives.
• Make evaluative judgments, resolve problems, and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

All colleagues are expected to embody Barclays Values: Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset: Empower, Challenge, Drive.