Senior Payroll Advisor

Lockton Companies; Peacehaven; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading provider of insurance and risk management seeks a Senior Payroll Advisor. In this hybrid role, you will manage the payroll function, ensuring accurate processing and compliance while providing support to HR and Finance teams. The ideal candidate is experienced in payroll processing, has excellent organisational skills, and is capable of overseeing team operations. You will also engage in auditing and reconciliation of payroll data. The position requires attending the office three days a week.

Qualifications

• Experience in overseeing team members and ensuring work delivery.
• Proven ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Experienced in-house Payroll professional in a busy environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the end-to-end payroll processing for UK payrolls.
• Ensure compliance and timely response to payroll queries.
• Monitor workflows to meet payroll deadlines.

Skills

Payroll processing

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Time management

Customer service focus

Tools

Zellis Resource Link

Job description

Supporting the Senior Payroll and Benefits Manager and working with key stakeholders you will

• Work with 2 senior payroll Advisors to manage the accurate and timely end to end processing of 3 UK payrolls.
• Manage BAU benefit activity for a headcount circa 2,400.
• Review UK payroll processes & implement improvements.
• Act as back up to Senior Manager for audit activity.
• Act as a back up for overseas payroll BAU processing and approvals.
• Work closely with colleagues to harmonise payroll processes and documentation across Europe.
• Maintain and develop payroll statistics.

* HRBPs & Admins, HR ops team, Finance, People Solutions, Reward Team

Candidate Profile

• Able to take the lead and comfortable with assigning tasks and requesting updates for team members.
• Organised and focused on helping the team provide a consistent level of output and accuracy.
• Experience of payroll processing, data entry through to reconciliation and reporting.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.
• Focus on customer service.
• Superb organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively.

Pre-requisites

• Experienced in-house Payroller having worked in a busy payroll environment.
• Had experience of overseeing other team members and ensuring work delivery.
• Role is hybrid based and the individual must be prepared to attend the office 3 days per week.
• Some payroll system functions need to run out of hours, the individual must be prepared to run reports and updates prior to 8am/after 6pm (these can be done on working from home days and take minutes to run but must be done when all users are out of the system).

Other information

• Current Team Size: 1 x Senior Payroll Manager, 2 x Senior Payroll Advisors
• Payroll System: Zellis Resource Link, outsourced providers
• 1 x PAYE payroll circa 2,200, 2 x (non-PAYE payrolls), Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Malta payrolls via local bureau.

About The Position

This is an excellent opportunity to join Lockton’s People Team in a newly created role. As Senior Payroll Advisor you will oversee the day to day running of key aspects of the payroll function.

Key responsibilities

• Acting as a senior member of the Payroll Advisor team, providing advice and guidance where needed to Payroll, HR & Finance stakeholders.
• Monitoring workflows ensuring that the team are focused and on target to close the payroll within the given timetable.
• Monitoring the Payroll email inbox ensuring queries are responded to in a timely manner.
• Exception reporting and auditing payroll data to ensure audit compliance.
• Managing & performing day-to-day processing of the UK payrolls including input, reconciliation and report running.