Payroll Coordinator

Balfour Beatty plc; Bridgwater; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

Remote flexibility

Annual leave

Pension & incentives

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc in Bridgwater, England, is seeking a Payroll Coordinator to join the MEH Alliance on Hinkley Point C. You will collate time and attendance records, ensure timecards are complete and accurate, and support payroll processing across site teams.

Using Kronos Time & Attendance, you will add new starters and process leavers, manage sickness and absences, travel entitlements, and resolve pay-related queries. Excellent communication and data accuracy are essential.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and data analysis.
• Previous experience within payroll, recruitment, workforce administration or a high-volume timesheet environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to work accurately under pressure.
• Experience within engineering construction, NAECI or JIB environments would be advantageous.
• Able to obtain a security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate payroll activities using the Kronos Time & Attendance system.
• Add new starters and process leavers within payroll systems.
• Manage sickness, holiday and absence records.
• Process travel, fare and lodge entitlements.
• Investigate and resolve payroll and timesheet queries.
• Process payroll corrections and manual timesheets where required.
• Liaise with supervisors and employees to ensure accurate payroll submissions.
• Support employee wellbeing through the timely resolution of pay-related concerns

Skills

Microsoft Office

Excel

Data analysis

Communication

Attention to detail

Payroll experience

Security clearance eligibility

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Tools

Kronos Time & Attendance

Job description

About the role

Balfour Beatty are partnering with the MEH Alliance on Hinkley Point C. We are currently looking for a Payroll Coordinator to join the team.

As Payroll Coordinator, you will be responsible for the collation and management of time and attendance records, ensuring employee timecards are complete and accurate before submission for payroll processing. Working closely with site teams and employees, you will play a key role in supporting payroll operations and resolving pay-related queries.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinate payroll activities using the Kronos Time & Attendance system.
• Add new starters and process leavers within payroll systems.
• Manage sickness, holiday and absence records.
• Process travel, fare and lodge entitlements.
• Investigate and resolve payroll and timesheet queries.
• Process payroll corrections and manual timesheets where required.
• Liaise with supervisors and employees to ensure accurate payroll submissions.
• Support employee wellbeing through the timely resolution of pay-related concerns

Who we're looking for

• NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent experience.
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and data analysis.
• Previous experience within payroll, recruitment, workforce administration or a high-volume timesheet environment.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to work accurately under pressure.
• Experience within engineering construction, industrial projects, NAECI or JIB environments would be advantageous.
• Able to obtain a security clearance

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

• Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
• 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
• Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
• Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more.

About us

Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick (BBK) is a market leading mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) and mechanical, electrical and instrumentation (ME&I) solutions provider with over 100 years of engineering expertise.

We design, install and maintain the systems that make building infrastructure work. Emphasising environmentally efficient technologies, digital construction and offsite manufacturing, our experienced teams deliver high quality solutions across the following sectors: Aviation, Buildings, Civils, Defence, Energy and New Build Nuclear.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality.

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

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