Senior Payroll Advisor — Lead Compliance & Improvement

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdonshire; Hybride; GBP 38 000 - 52 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Private healthcare

Virtual GP service

Pension (double-matched 21%)

Résumé du poste

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Senior Payroll Advisor to join the People Services team. You’ll lead accurate, compliant payroll for around 6,750 employees, acting as SME and guiding colleagues.

You’ll work with HR, Finance, and external providers, using SAP and Workday to ensure excellent service, handle complex queries, and drive continuous improvement.

This hybrid role offers 4 days at home and 1 day at our Huntingdon office, on a fixed-term contract for 18 months.

Qualifications

• Significant payroll experience within a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, HMRC requirements and pension administration.
• Experience processing high-volume payrolls from end to end.
• Strong systems experience, ideally SAP and/or Workday.
• Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build relationships across teams.
• CIPP qualification or equivalent experience would be advantageous.

Responsabilités

• Process and oversee monthly payroll activities with accuracy and compliance.
• Act as escalation point for complex payroll queries and employee cases.
• Maintain employee records in SAP and Workday.
• Manage statutory payments, deductions, pensions, salary sacrifice schemes and payroll benefits.
• Support complex payroll activities including redundancy payments and TUPE transfers.
• Complete payroll reconciliations, journals, audits and month-end reporting.
• Ensure compliance with HMRC regulations, pension legislation and employment law.
• Produce statutory submissions such as RTI, P60s, P11Ds and ONS reporting.
• Collaborate with Finance, Employee Relations and external providers to resolve issues and improve processes.
• Support Payroll Advisors while leading continuous improvement projects.

Connaissances

Payroll processing

UK payroll legislation

SAP

Workday

Attention to detail

Communication

CIPP qualification

Formation

CIPP qualification or equivalent

Outils

SAP

Workday

Description du poste

Anglian Water Services is seeking a Senior Payroll Advisor to join the People Services team. You’ll lead accurate, compliant payroll for around 6,750 employees, acting as SME and guiding colleagues.

You’ll work with HR, Finance, and external providers, using SAP and Workday to ensure excellent service, handle complex queries, and drive continuous improvement.

This hybrid role offers 4 days at home and 1 day at our Huntingdon office, on a fixed-term contract for 18 months.