Payroll Coordinator

The Guinness Partnership; Oldham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

The Guinness Partnership is seeking a Payroll Coordinator for a full-time, permanent position in Oldham. This role involves managing payroll processes, ensuring timely payments, and providing excellent customer service regarding pay and benefits. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in payroll and a commitment to delivering supportive, customer-focused services.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in payroll and pensions function.
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload.
• Exceptional customer service and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist in payroll cycle to ensure accurate and timely employee payments.
• Provide support on pay, pensions, and benefits matters.
• Maintain procedure notes and contribute to payroll projects.

Skills

Customer Service

Numeracy

Analytical Skills

Attention to Detail

Communication

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Education

CIPP Certificate

Job description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Co-ordinator to join our team in Oldham on a full-time, permanent basis. As Payroll Coordinator, you will assist in the effective provision of payroll, pay-related functions, and management information for Guinness.

We operate on a hybrid working basis, which offers the opportunity to work 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.

Reporting to the Payroll Manager, you will support the delivery of the payroll cycle to ensure employee payments each month are accurate and on time. You will be responsible for providing a positive and helpful support service to advise on pay, pensions, and benefits matters to Guinness employees, maintain procedure notes, and contribute to payroll projects/activities as required.

What we’re looking for
We are a customer-focused organisation, so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You’ll not only be an experienced payroll specialist, but you will also have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done.

You’ll also be able to demonstrate:
•Experience of working within a payroll and pensions function.
•Experience in organising and prioritising own workload.
•Excellent numeracy and analytical skills.
•Excellent accuracy and attention to detail.
•Good oral and written communication skills.
•Exceptional customer service skills.
•Advanced knowledge of working with Microsoft applications, Word, Excel, and Outlook
•Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.

Desirable Qualification
•CIPP Certificate or specialist payroll qualification

How do I apply?
If you feel you have what we are looking for then we would love to hear from you! The first step is hitting the ‘apply’ button and submitting your online application by uploading your CV.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.