Payroll Delivery Specialist - 12 Months Full Time Contract (Hiring Immediately)

JR United Kingdom; Paisley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Payroll Delivery Specialist for a 12 months full-time contract in Paisley. The role involves managing payroll functions, ensuring compliance, and leading a team for operational excellence. Candidates must have extensive payroll administration experience and skills in strategic thinking and change management. Join a dynamic team to drive process improvements and support HR transformation projects.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in payroll administration at expertise level.
• Ability to influence and negotiate at senior management level.
• Experience managing complex payroll issues and projects.

Responsibilities

• Manage UK and Crown Dependency payrolls and post-payroll activities.
• Ensure compliance with statutory filings and liaise with tax authorities.
• Lead a team and coach employees in achieving operational objectives.

Skills

Payroll administration

Decision making

Influencing

Strategic thinking

Change management

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Payroll Delivery Specialist - 12 Months Full Time Contract (Hiring Immediately), paisley

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Barclays Bank PLC

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

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Job Description:

In this Payroll Delivery Specialist role you will be 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.

Additionally, the role contributes to change projects and the Global HR Transformation Program, focusing on system design, implementation, and process reengineering. 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 Delivery Specialist, you must have experience with:

• Extensive experience of payroll administration and support, with experience at expertise level.
• Decision making that takes accountability of policy, legislation, operational performance and the wider team deliverables.
• Influence and negotiate at senior management level.
• Maturity and experience of handling complex and challenging situations.
• Evaluating and implementing/or rejecting proposed operational change.
• Proven and demonstrable success at driving process and procedural change initiatives– from conception, design to implementation.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

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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.
• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• 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 will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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.