Payroll Specialist (Glasgow Based)

Heathrow Airport; Auchentibber; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Heathrow Airport is seeking a payroll professional to support colleagues, managers and HR stakeholders with reward and pay-related activities. You will ensure data integrity, administer family-friendly leave processes, and support annual reward programmes.

Working within HR and Payroll teams, you will resolve payroll queries, perform accurate calculations, and contribute to service quality and continuous process improvement while managing your own workload efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Process reward and pay-related activities ensuring payroll data integrity
• Administer family-friendly leave processes and support annual reward programmes
• Collaborate with HR, Payroll and wider business to resolve payroll queries and support service delivery
• Own workload allocation, manage time effectively and drive continuous process improvement

Job description

The role supports colleagues, managers, Payroll, and HR stakeholders processing reward and pay-related activities, ensuring payroll data integrity, administering family-friendly leave processes, and supporting annual reward programmes.

The postholder is accountable for ensuring colleagues receive the correct pay, benefits, and statutory entitlements while maintaining compliance with company policies, employment legislation, and payroll governance requirements. Working collaboratively across HR, Payroll, and the wider business, the role contributes to a high-quality service through effective query resolution, accurate calculations, strong stakeholder support, and continuous process improvement.

Whilst working as part of a team, the role holder will take ownership of their own work allocation, managing their time effectively, re-prioritising when necessary, to ensure all service delivery targets be met. They will be involved with the more complex delivery and grow relationships with key internal stakeholders. Throughout, they will drive service quality through understanding and delivering against expectations, meeting objectives, effectively prioritising, and initiating continuous improvement.