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Payroll Officer

Beaverbrooks

Lytham

On-site

GBP 26,000 - 29,000

Full time

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Job summary

Beaverbrooks seeks an experienced Payroll Officer to join its proactive Payroll & Benefits Team. The ideal candidate will manage payroll processing for over 1000 colleagues, ensuring compliance and accuracy while supporting the rollout of payroll and HR solutions. This permanent role is office-based in Lytham St Annes, offering a salary range of £26,135 - £29,000 depending on experience.

Benefits

33 days holidays (including bank holidays)
Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
Outstanding colleague discounts
Wellbeing scheme
Employee & family support & counselling
Office profit share bonus

Qualifications

  • Experience in end-to-end payroll processing.
  • Working knowledge of National Living Wage and Gender Pay Gap compliance.
  • Excellent decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

  • Process end-to-end payroll for over 1000 colleagues ensuring compliance.
  • Involvement in reporting and analysis of payroll metrics.
  • Serve as point of contact for payroll queries.

Skills

End-to-End Payroll Processing
National Living Wage Compliance
Gender Pay Gap Analysis
Decision-Making
Excel (including VLOOKUPS)
Communication

Job description

  • Payroll Officer
  • Permanent - 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday
  • Office Based in Lytham St Annes
  • £26,135 - £29,000 per annum, depending on experience

We are now seeking an experienced and proactive Payroll Officer to join our busy Payroll & Benefits Team. This is the perfect role for someone who enjoys processing end to end payroll, compliance and analysis.

In addition, as a Beaverbrooks Payroll Officer, you will also play an exciting role in supporting the rollout of payroll and HR solutions which will both aid with efficiencies and support our people.

Main Responsibilities

  • End to end payroll processing for over 1000 colleagues ensuring full compliance and accuracy
  • Ensuring correct and well thought out decisions are being made where necessary
  • Involvement in reporting and analysis including National Living Wage and Gender Pay Gap
  • Recording of absence and associated calculations including statutory payments and Bradford Factor (holidays, sickness, maternity, paternity)
  • Timesheet calculations
  • Attachment of earnings
  • Assisting in reviewing payroll emails and carrying out actions as necessary
  • Administration of employee benefits ie pensions & childcare vouchers
  • Be a trusted point of contact and a go-to for payroll queries for your colleagues across the business and internal/external stakeholders
  • General ad hoc duties to support the Payroll & Benefits department.

About Beaverbrooks

Established in 1919, we have 80 locations across the UK. This includes 57 Beaverbrooks stores & 23 dedicated brand boutiques, including TAG Heuer, OMEGA, Breitling & Tudor. We also have 3 Loupe boutiques, with Rolex showrooms.

We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family. From the very smallest details to the big important things.

Our core purpose is to enrich lives. We aim to make a positive difference to the world we live in. This includes our colleagues, customers, suppliers & the wider community.

As a company – we’re true to our word. When we say we’re going to do something, we go all out to do it. And every individual is truly valued.

The awards we’ve been given as an employer speak volumes about what it’s like to work here, some of which are:

  • Retail's 3rd Best Company to Work For - Best Companies 2024
  • We have been awarded a?3 star?accreditation for 'World Class levels of Engagement' for 19 years running - Best Companies 2024 - based on colleague feedback.
  • 'Employer of the Year 2024’ - The UK Jewellery Awards

Amazing benefits for amazing people

They say you get out what you put in. And, at Beaverbrooks, our people put in so much.

In return, just some of the benefits we offer include:

  • 33 days holidays (inc bank hols)
  • Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
  • Outstanding colleague discounts, which extend to your family & friends
  • Wellbeing scheme
  • Employee & family support & counselling in partnership with the Retail Trust
  • A variety of different schemes to help you support charities close to your heart
  • Office profit share bonus

The Ideal Candidate

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

  • Ability to demonstrate the values and behaviours of the Beaverbrooks Way- The Beaverbrooks Way
  • Experience in end-to-end payroll processing
  • Working knowledge of National Living Wage and Gender Pay Gap compliance
  • Proven ability to prioritise workload and meet objectives, working independently and as part of a team
  • Excellent decision-making skills
  • Able to embrace change as we move towards new software solutions and processes
  • Excellent excel & data entry skills including vlookups
  • Ability to build good working relationships through communication (both written and verbal) and the confidence to reach out to colleagues to advise on any queries.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

  • Payroll experience from a multisite or a retail background
  • Previous involvement with integration of Payroll systems and associated processes
  • Managing benefits in kind through the ‘Payrolling Benefits’ process
  • This role would suit someone who comes from an environment where there is a degree of flexibility with policy and procedure.

Beaverbrooks - the hallmark of amazing people

In Short
  • Industry Retail, Buying & Merchandising
  • Founded 1919
  • Location Nationwide
  • Company size 1000 - 4999
About The Company

We started in 1919 as a family business and we're still owned by that same family. Only now, we have 1000+ people across our 85 locations across the UK, with 64 Beaverbrooks stores plus 18 dedicated brand boutiques including Tag Heuer, OMEGA, Breitling and Tudor. We also have our very successful ecommerce website, which was launched in 2001.
We provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood with our colleagues passionately helping to create unforgettable customer memories. That's the hallmark of amazing people.

Our Story

The awards we've been given as an employer speak volumes about what it's like to work here, some of which are:

* UK's 3rd Best Large Company to Work For - Best Companies 2023 - based on employee feedback (We've been in the top 10 for the last 5 years)
* Retail's Best Company to Work For - Best Companies 2023
* 3 star accreditation from Best Companies for the 18th year running, which reflects 'world class' levels of workplace engagement.
* 'The Happiest Place to Work', in partnership with Retail Trust, at the Retail Week Awards 2023

Our Unique Culture

Our culture reflects the way we treat customers. Genuinely moved by our teammates’ ability to go the extra mile. Positive, even when faced with a challenge. We define that culture as ‘The Beaverbrooks Way’. It embodies passion, integrity, caring, trust and fairness. Values that have been true to us for a Century.

Beaverbrooks people aren’t just here to earn a living. We’re here to enrich lives. It starts with customers, reaches out into the wider community and extends to each other.

That’s why we put so much time into choosing passionate, instinctive employees. People who know how much you have to put in to get out what you want.

Amazing benefits for amazing people

They say you get out what you put in. And, at Beaverbrooks, our people put in so much. So much passion. So much time spent learning about our products. So much of that personal touch that turns each sale into a moment.

  • We pay a rate that tells you we’re well aware of just how hard you work. You’ll be rewarded withbonusesfor brilliant performance, too.
  • Generous discountmeans that you’ll sparkle as bright as your personality. Andexclusively designed uniformswill help you look the part as you play it.
  • You’re always putting others first, but ourhealthcare schemeand private healthcare cash plans will help you to take care of yourself, too.
  • If and when baby comes along, we’ll make sure proud parents are given enhanced time off to be with their new arrival. And, when Mum’s ready and excited to come back to us, we give her a bonus to let her know we understand.
  • What’s more, no matter if retirement is near or far, ourgenerous contributory pensionis a great perk. Not to mention giving your loved ones the security they deserve with life assurance cover.
  • We also offersupport and counsellingfor colleagues and their families if ever times are tough.
  • We’ve looked around us and noticed one thing that’s true of every single one of our amazing people. We all seem to want to do things for the wider community. So to reward your generosity, we willmatch any donation you make to charityfrom your salary, pound for pound. Because your causes are our causes.
Learning & Development

We’ve seen you in action. One amazing quality after another. Truly caring about the customer experience. Passionate to the last detail about the products. We want to nurture that – shape it – and help you become the very best version of you.

Amazing as you are, your first days and weeks in a new role can nevertheless be overwhelming. So we cushion your landing with a structured Induction Training Programme.

However you decide to develop here, you can be sure you’ll always have our honesty. We’re always straight talking in our feedback. Because we know that recognising room for development is the first step toward achieving your goals.

And, whilst our stores require training to enable us all to deliver the same high standards, we’re just as focused on developing our office teams, too. Only that’s on an individual, bespoke level because each role is different.

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