Payroll Officer

Royal Shakespeare Company; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Shakespeare Company is seeking a Payroll Officer to support the Payroll team in managing accurate and timely payroll processing. This full-time role in Stratford-upon-Avon involves significant responsibilities related to payroll management, ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations. The ideal candidate will possess strong attention to detail, payroll experience, and excellent communication skills, contributing to a supportive and dynamic finance department.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Payroll processing experience and understanding of PAYE, tax, and national insurance required.
• Knowledge of current HMRC legislation needed.
• Proven ability to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Processing payrolls accurately and on time.
• Managing payroll-related queries.
• Collating new starter and leaver forms.

Skills

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Tools

Excel

Job description

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Do you have an understanding of payroll? Can you administer/process PAYE, tax, and national insurance? Can you process payrolls accurately and to deadlines? Are you excellent with numbers, detail, and accuracy? Can you work in a busy team environment where the workload is high?

We are looking for a Payroll Officer to provide administrative support to the Payroll team to ensure our weekly and monthly payrolls are processed accurately and on time.

Reporting to the Payroll Manager, key areas of responsibility include (please see the full job description and person specification for the comprehensive list):

• Collating new starter, amendment, and leaver forms.
• Attaching new employees to the monthly payrolls and attaching payments/deductions.
• Setting up new pro-rata musicians, actors, and children and attaching to payroll.
• Collating changes such as rent, services, subsistence, and touring allowance.
• Data input of basic hours, overtime, holiday, and absences.
• Ensuring leavers are paid/deducted holiday pay.
• Dealing with payroll-related queries.

To be suitable for this role, it is essential that you have the following:

• Payroll processing experience and an understanding of PAYE, tax, and national insurance.
• Knowledge of current HMRC legislation.
• Excellent attention to detail, quality, and accuracy.
• Numerate – for example, comfortable analysing numerical data and with good level of Excel skills (e.g., confident with formulas, sorting data, summarising data).
• Proven ability and commitment to meet deadlines.
• Proactive with a flexible and adaptable approach.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

This role is offered as a full-time, permanent position, based in Stratford-upon-Avon.

The Finance department works on a hybrid model. Typically, team members work an average of 2–3 days remotely each week, but this varies according to specific work activity and is subject to line manager approval. The normal hours of work are 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with the understanding that additional hours may be required to fulfill the responsibilities of the role.

Application Process

All applications should be made online via the RSC website. If you need assistance when applying, please email [email protected]

Interviews will be held in late June.

About the RSC

The RSC strives for excellence and values creativity, inclusivity, sustainability, collaboration, and accountability.

We offer great benefits and aim to create a welcoming, supportive environment that is healthy and safe. We prioritize developing a diverse, motivated, and energized workforce to help achieve our goals. Our values are central to everything we do.

We are committed to building a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all individuals.

We believe safeguarding children and adults is everyone's responsibility. All employees are expected to prioritize safeguarding in their work. We also support and advocate for the RSC's environmental objectives, continuing to improve our sustainability efforts both on and off stage.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (no. 212481) is a registered charity.