Payroll Delivery Specialist – 12 Months Full Time Contract

Barclays UK; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution based in Northampton is seeking a Payroll Delivery Specialist to manage payroll functions and ensure compliance with statutory requirements. The ideal candidate must have extensive payroll experience and technical proficiency in systems like SAP or Workday. This full-time contract role offers a dynamic working environment focused on collaboration and process improvement.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in payroll and delivery at a specialist level.
• Considerable decision-making skills balancing policy, legislation, and operational performance.
• Technical experience in systems such as SAP, Workday, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees.
• Provide support and guidance to employees on payroll queries.
• Ensure compliance with statutory filings and tax authorities.

Skills

Extensive experience in payroll

Decision-making skills

Technical experience in SAP or Workday

Tools

SAP

Workday

Job description

As a Payroll Delivery Specialist – 12 Months Full Time Contract, you will play a key role in ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of UK payrolls. You will support both Business-as-Usual (BAU) operations and project-based initiatives, offering a varied and dynamic workload. You’ll be responsible for managing critical payroll activities such as running gross-to-net calculations, administering legislative documentation (e.g., P60s and P11Ds), and contributing to change projects.

You will act as a point of escalation for the payroll team, providing specialist guidance and support to resolve complex issues. Your role will involve close collaboration with stakeholders and you’ll be expected to drive process improvements and support projects.

To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Extensive experience in payroll and delivery at a specialist level.
• Considerable decision-making skills, balancing policy, legislation, and operational performance.
• Technical experience in systems such as SAP, Workday, or similar.

Your role will be located from our Northampton office.

Purpose of the role

To manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, and any other deductions, as well as maintaining accurate payroll records for the business.

Accountabilities

• Processing of payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees, calculating tax and other contributions, withholding, and paying out as appropriate.
• Employee payroll record administration and troubleshooting.
• Guidance and support to employees on all payroll matters, including queries related to calculations of salaries and wages, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
• Compliance related statutory filings including the management of the reply to Government institution notices related to all Statutory obligations.
• Payroll statutory reporting and filing including liaison with relevant local tax authorities.

Analyst Expectations

• To perform prescribed activities in a timely manner and to a high standard consistently driving continuous improvement.
• Requires in-depth technical knowledge and experience in their assigned area of expertise.
• Thorough understanding of the underlying principles and concepts within the area of expertise.
• They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they develop technical expertise in work area, acting as an advisor where appropriate.
• Will have an impact on the work of related teams within the area.
• Partner with other functions and business areas.
• Takes responsibility for end results of a team’s operational processing and activities.
• Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
• Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
• Advise and influence decision making within own area of expertise.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Deliver your work and areas of responsibility in line with relevant rules, regulation and codes of conduct.
• Maintain and continually build an understanding of how own sub-function integrates with the broader function, alongside knowledge of the organisation's products, services and processes.
• Demonstrate understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organisation's objectives.
• Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
• Resolve problems by identifying and selecting solutions through the application of acquired technical experience and guided by precedents.
• Guide and persuade team members and communicate complex / sensitive information.
• Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside the team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.