Payroll Supervisor

HCT; Winchester; On-site; GBP 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A cultural trust in Winchester is seeking a Payroll Supervisor to ensure smooth and accurate payroll operations. This role involves managing the entire payroll process, working closely with internal teams and external partners. The ideal candidate is experienced in payroll management, detail-oriented, and has strong communication skills. This position offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays

7.5% Employer pension contributions

Generous maternity, adoption, and paternity pay

Enhanced occupational sick pay

Life assurance scheme (x3 annual salary)

Interest-free Season ticket loans

Cycle to Work Scheme

Free tea and coffee

Qualifications

• Experience managing payroll and pensions, ideally through a payroll bureau.
• High volume transaction handling and query management.
• Strong administrative skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Manage the full monthly payroll cycle to ensure accurate and timely payments.
• Complete monthly and annual pension reporting and ensure payments.
• Maintain relationships with the payroll bureau and partners.
• Prepare and post payroll journals accurately.
• Reconcile payroll outputs against control documents.
• Respond to payroll queries promptly and professionally.

Skills

Accuracy

Organisation

Customer service

Microsoft Office

Tools

Excel

Outlook

Word

Job description

Job Title: Payroll Supervisor

Job Level: 3B

Salary: £24,136.00 per annum (£30,170.00 FTE)

Location: Chilcomb House, Winchester

Hours: 29.6 hours per week

Type of Contract: Permanent

Job Description: Payroll Supervisor

Are you an experienced payroll professional who thrives on accuracy, organisation, and delivering great service?

Join our professional and friendly Finance team, where you’ll play a key role in ensuring smooth and reliable payroll operations for the entire organisation. This position offers the opportunity to combine your technical payroll expertise with strong relationship management skills, supporting colleagues across the business while maintaining the highest standards of accuracy and compliance.

As a Payroll Specialist, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the delivery of accurate and timely payroll and pension administration, maintaining strong relationships with both internal teams and external partners. You’ll manage the end-to-end monthly payroll process, ensure correct and compliant pension reporting, and act as a key point of contact for payroll queries providing prompt, helpful, and professional support.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing the full monthly payroll cycle to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time.
• Completing monthly and annual pension reporting and ensuring timely payments to pension providers.
• Maintaining strong working relationships with the payroll bureau, pension, and benefit partners.
• Preparing and posting payroll journals, ensuring payroll costs are accurately recorded in the accounts.
• Reconciling payroll outputs against control documents to uphold financial integrity.
• Responding promptly to employee and manager payroll queries with clarity and care.

A bit about you

You’re known for your accuracy, organisation, and commitment to great service. With experience managing payroll and pensions, ideally through a payroll bureau you’re comfortable handling high volumes of transactions and queries while keeping calm under pressure. Your strong administrative skills, attention to detail, and clear communication make you a trusted point of contact for colleagues across our venues and central departments.

You’re confident using Microsoft Office (particularly Excel, Outlook, and Word) and thrive in a role where deadlines are tight, teamwork is essential, and customer focus is at the heart of everything you do.

What it’s like to work for us

At Hampshire Cultural Trust we have a vision to create inspirational culture experiences that enrich and transform lives. We manage and support 20+ attractions and deliver county-wide outreach programmes that bring great culture to local communities. We also deliver a diverse range of wider social impact initiatives targeted at those who are most vulnerable or disadvantaged and who would not usually have access to arts and culture.

We promote equity, inclusion and diversity and a culture that actively values difference. We recognise that people from different backgrounds and experiences can enhance the way we perform and work and we encourage and support the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our staff.

We are inclusive, valuing, and respectful of diversity, developing the ability to recruit and retain a diverse workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Therefore, we are committed to implementing reasonable adjustments for candidates with disabilities in our recruitment process and in employment.

The benefits of working for us

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (pro-rated for part time working)
• 7.5% Employer pension contributions
• Generous occupational maternity, adoption and paternity pay
• Enhanced occupational sick pay
• Emergency leave scheme
• Life assurance scheme (x3 annual salary)
• Industry leading Employee Assistance Programme
• Interest-free Season ticket loans and travel loans from first day of employment
• Charity Worker Discounts Scheme (savings on retail, leisure, groceries, travel etc.)
• Access to same day GP appointments for employees and their immediate family
• Access to free eye tests and vouchers towards glasses for VDU use
• Free flu vaccination vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Health Cash Plan (cashback on dental, optical, medical for monthly subscription cost)
• Opportunities to learn, develop and progress
• Free tea and coffee in all our venues
• Team Card - Free access to our fee paying venues and discounts across café and retail.

We will be running a dynamic recruitment process so we would encourage candidates to submit an application as soon as possible as we will be interviewing candidates before the closing date.

To apply please fill in the application form with an up-to-date CV. We do not require covering letters for this position however would be grateful to receive context to your application.

Closing date for applications: 14 November 2025

Proposed Interview date: w/c 17 November

To find out more about us visit our website www.hampshireculture.org.uk and https://careers.hampshireculturaltrust.org.uk/