Payroll & Pensions Specialist (Remote) — Automation Backlog

Michael Page; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page is seeking an experienced Payroll/Pensions professional to manage weekly and monthly payrolls across six group companies, ensuring accurate payments and pension compliance with NEST.

You will collaborate with HR and Finance to resolve backlogs, improve processes, and drive efficiency, including automation initiatives; the role supports remote work and is anchored in the Worthing area, UK.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing end-to-end payroll processes in medium to large organisations.
• Strong knowledge of NEST pensions, including contributions and auto-enrolment compliance.
• Excellent attention to detail to ensure payroll data accuracy and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end weekly and monthly payroll processing across six group companies.
• Ensure employees are paid accurately and on time, maintaining compliance with payroll legislation.
• Administer and reconcile pension contributions, focusing on NEST processes.
• Review payroll outputs from the managed payroll provider and investigate discrepancies.
• Collaborate with HR and Finance to ensure payroll data, reporting and records are accurate.
• Resolve payroll and pension-related queries and support backlog reduction.
• Ensure compliance with auto-enrolment legislation.
• Produce payroll reports.
• Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls, automation and efficiency.
• Support ongoing optimisation of systems and implement best-practice payroll procedures.

Skills

Payroll processing

Pensions (NEST)

Auto-enrolment

Data accuracy

Process improvement

Communication skills

Cross-functional work

Job description

Michael Page is seeking an experienced Payroll/Pensions professional to manage weekly and monthly payrolls across six group companies, ensuring accurate payments and pension compliance with NEST.

You will collaborate with HR and Finance to resolve backlogs, improve processes, and drive efficiency, including automation initiatives; the role supports remote work and is anchored in the Worthing area, UK.