Payroll Reconciliations Specialist

TN United Kingdom; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Payroll Reconciliations Specialist in Cardiff, where you will leverage your analytical skills to ensure accurate customer payments and compliance with payroll regulations. This role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-growing division focused on customer satisfaction and financial security. You'll be responsible for investigating anomalies, maintaining accurate records, and supporting process improvements within a collaborative workspace. If you are passionate about payroll processes and want to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus and share schemes

Generous pension contributions

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays

Family leave benefits

Electric car scheme

Employee discounts

Modern, collaborative workspace

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of payroll processes and software.
• Experience with large volume pension payments in B2B and B2C environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyze data and correct customer records to ensure accurate payments.
• Support compliance with legislative and regulatory processes.

Skills

Pension Products Knowledge

Payroll Processes & Software

Payroll Regulatory Awareness

Payroll Processing Basics

Analysis of Financial Data

Job description

Payroll Reconciliations Specialist, Cardiff

We’re recruiting for a Reconciliations Specialist to join us. We’re offering a competitive base salary. You will analyze multiple reconciliations to investigate and correct anomalies, ensuring the customer has received the correct payments and all regulatory reporting has been submitted, escalating to subject matter experts when needed.

What you'll be doing:

• Analyzing data, investigating anomalies, and correcting customer records.
• Supporting to ensure that all appropriate legislative, regulatory, and internal process and procedure knowledge is developed and maintained within the team by identifying, reporting, and resolving any breaches and ensuring that the correct checks are undertaken during our processes.
• Using your reconciliation knowledge and analytical skills to complete the end-to-end processes.
• Providing advice, guidance, and technical input to teams outside Customer Payroll.
• Accurately recording workflow, maintaining various spreadsheets to track case progress and allow for MI production, updating customer records with actions completed.
• Supporting in user testing and monitoring the implementation of changes involving reconciliation systems or processes, to help safeguard the continuation of accurate and timely payments and reporting.
• Identifying areas of improvement and working within our processes and Agile framework to continually enhance the customer journey.

Company Description:

Legal & General Retail aims to help customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security, and protect what’s important. Created in 2022 through a merger, we are a fast-growing division with a customer-centered focus.

Qualifications:

• Knowledge of pension products
• Strong understanding of Payroll processes & software
• Awareness of Payroll regulatory/risk
• Basics of processing payroll and reconciliations
• Experience working on large volume pension payments/payrolls in a B2B and B2C environment
• Analysis and interpretation of financial and technical payroll data
• Knowledge of SRT (desirable)

Benefits include:

• Performance-related bonus and share schemes
• Generous pension contributions
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays, with options to buy/sell holiday
• Family leave benefits
• Electric car scheme
• Employee discounts
• Modern, collaborative workspace

Additional Information:

Legal & General is a leading financial services organization, recognized for its leadership and sector excellence. We foster an inclusive culture, support flexible working, and value diverse backgrounds and experiences. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every criterion, focusing on your strengths and potential.

We look forward to hearing from you!