Payroll Officer

Cornerstone Community Care; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community care organization is looking for an experienced Payroll Officer in Glasgow, Dundee, or Aberdeen. The role involves managing payroll for 1,800 colleagues and requires at least 2 years of experience in payroll services. Excellent communication skills and the ability to meet tight deadlines are crucial. Opportunities for professional development and a supportive work culture are offered.

Benefits

Access to funded CIPP qualifications

Flexi-time model for business support

26 days annual leave plus holidays

Access to discounts and employee assistance helpline

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years' experience in payroll.
• Experience with pension auto-enrolment and RTI.
• Ability to manage data and create reports.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate payroll processing for 1,800 colleagues.
• Be the main contact for colleague queries.
• Assist in the monthly payroll process.

Skills

Excellent customer service skills

Great communication skills

Problem-solving skills

Organizational skills

Using Microsoft Office

Education

Degree or CIPP/IPPM equivalent qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced Payroll professional who's on the look out for a new career opportunity? We could have just the role you are looking for!

We have an exciting opportunity to join Cornerstone as our new Payroll Officer on a full‑time (39 hours per week), permanent basis. It's a very exciting time to join our team as we implement our brand new HR & Payroll system.

This role can be based in either our Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen office, or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Glasgow, Dundee or Aberdeen.

The Role

Reporting to our Depute Payroll Lead and working alongside your fellow Payroll Officers and Payroll Assistant, you’ll be involved in the day‑to‑day activities of our payroll department, ensuring that payments to our colleagues are compliant, accurate and made in a timely manner.

As a main point of contact for our colleague queries, you will use your Payroll expertise to ensure that we deliver a supportive, exceptional service to around 1,800 colleagues across our organisation.

You’ll assist in the running of the monthly payroll process to ensure that colleagues are paid on the specified pay date of each month, ensuring that all salary payments are made in line with employment legislation and that deductions are made in line with employment legislation and are recorded and submitted to statutory bodies within timescale.

Please see the Role Profile attached to our advert for a full list of duties and responsibilities.

About You

What we’ll need you to bring:

• A minimum of 2 years’ experience of delivering a comprehensive and compliant payroll and pension service (including pension auto‑enrolment and RTI)
• Degree or CIPP/IPPM equivalent qualification or demonstrable experience in a comparable role
• Excellent customer service skills
• Great communication skills (written and verbal)
• The ability to independently problem solve to a successful conclusion
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and organise your workload to meet tight deadlines
• A proven track record of using Microsoft Office packages, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• The ability to manage data, create reports and present information clearly and effectively

There will be occasions that we’ll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations for meetings and training (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).

About Us

With 45 years’ experience delivering great care and support, Cornerstone provides tailored, individual packages of care which focus on enabling people with a variety of needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and complex care needs, to live the best possible life.

We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.

What makes Cornerstone a great place to work

• You’ll join a friendly, warm and supportive team
• Your job actually contributes to changing and improving lives - you’ll make a difference in your local communities
• Access to funded CIPP qualifications
• We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
• No uniform - we wear our own clothes
• We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
• Free parking at our Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen office locations
• We operate a flexi‑time model for business support colleagues
• Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
• Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
• Long service awards
• Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
• 26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
• Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
• Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping to name a few

If you’re up for the challenge and think you have what it takes, then apply, we’d love to hear from you.

The successful candidate will need to undertake a Level 2 Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.

Please note

If you have spent more than 12 months out with the UK (excluding France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania or Spain) within the last 10 years while over the age of 18, you will be asked to provide a criminal record certificate from the relevant government/police authority as part of our pre‑employment checks.

* Agencies please note - We have our own in‑house Recruitment Team working to fill this vacancy and are not looking to work with an agency at present. Any unsolicited contact will not be responded to.