Senior Pay & Conditions Officer (Hybrid)

Essential Employment; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Stoke on Trent is seeking a Senior Pay & Conditions Officer for a full-time role. You will provide critical HR and payroll support, ensuring accuracy in data processing, manage pensions, and liaise with various stakeholders. This position involves supervising a team and ensuring compliance with contractual and statutory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll and HR systems.
• Knowledge of pensions and employee relations.
• Ability to manage sensitive information accurately.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR, pension and payroll support, advice and guidance.
• Ensure accurate processing of payroll transactions.
• Supervise the completion of employment documentation.

Skills

HR support

pension processing

payroll management

data processing

Job description

Senior Pay & Conditions Officer (Hybrid) needed in Stoke on Trent, £281.12 per day

PAYE – Reference: 5270551

To provide an effective pay, conditions and pensions service ensuring the timely and accurate processing of information into the HR/payroll system and third-party systems.

1. To provide proactive professional HR, pension and payroll support, advice and guidance to managers, employees/clients including but not limited to employee relations, welfare, pensions, and pay and conditions issues.
2. To ensure that all contractual, statutory, and pension changes—including those related to commencements, auto-enrolment, terminations, and changes in terms and conditions—are correctly and accurately processed through appropriate systems to meet deadlines.
3. To liaise, make enquiries with, and respond to all requests for relevant information from employees, internal and external clients, pension authorities, government agencies, and other external organizations using all available communication methods.
4. To supervise the completion and dispatch of employment documentation within deadlines by the Pay & Conditions Officers.
5. To review pre- and post-payroll reports, correct errors, and ensure accuracy.
6. To reconcile and balance payrolls, inform Accounts and Academies of funding, and communicate with third parties within deadlines.
7. To calculate estimates for pensions, redundancies, settlement agreements, and notice payments, providing cost information to the employer.
8. To process file transmissions via BACS for net payments to staff and deductions from third-party organizations.
9. To supervise the calculation and processing of emergency manual payments to employees/clients via the banking system.
10. To calculate and liaise with Solicitors, Risk, and Insurance Services regarding Third Party Claims.

This is a full-time role on a temporary contract basis.

If interested, please apply on our website with your CV, or email your CV to [e-mail] quoting the reference number.

Essential Employment acts as an Employment Business for this vacancy. We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

All roles may be subject to pre-employment checks including references. Please be prepared.

Due to high volume of applications, we may not respond to all unsuccessful candidates. You will be contacted if your CV progresses to the next stage.

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