Senior Payroll Co-ordinator

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Virtual GP service

Double-matched pension

Job summary

Anglian Water Group Ltd. is seeking a Senior Payroll Advisor to lead a compliant, accurate payroll service for about 6,750 staff. You will oversee monthly payroll processes, maintain records in SAP and Workday, manage pensions and deductions, and handle complex cases with minimal supervision.

This 18-month fixed-term role offers hybrid working with the Huntingdon office as needed. You will collaborate with HR, Finance and external providers, drive improvements, and ensure HMRC compliance while

Qualifications

• Experience in a complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation and HMRC requirements.
• Experience processing high-volume payrolls end-to-end.
• Proficiency with SAP and/or Workday.
• Attention to detail and analytical thinking.
• Confident communicator with stakeholder management skills.
• CIPP qualification or equivalent experience is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Processing and overseeing monthly payroll activities, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Acting as escalation point for complex payroll queries and employee cases.
• Maintaining employee records in SAP and Workday.
• Managing statutory payments, deductions, pensions, salary sacrifice schemes and payroll benefits.
• Supporting complex payroll activities including redundancy payments, TUPE transfers and family leave pay.
• Completing payroll reconciliations, journals, audits and month-end reporting.
• Ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations, pension legislation and employment law.
• Producing statutory submissions including RTI, P60s, P11Ds and ONS reporting.
• Collaborating with Finance, Employee Relations and external providers to resolve issues and improve processes.
• Supporting Payroll Advisors while leading continuous improvement initiatives and payroll projects.

Skills

Significant payroll experience

UK payroll legislation

High-volume payroll processing

SAP/Workday systems

Attention to detail

Communication

CIPP qualification

Tools

SAP

Workday

Job description

Senior Payroll Advisor

Salary: Circa £45,000 based on skills and experience

Benefits: Private healthcare, virtual GP service for you and your household, double-matched pension (up to 21% combined)

Location: Hybrid working: This role is primarily home-based, with 4 days working from home and 1 day per week in our Huntingdon office.

Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 18 months

Hours: Full-time (Flexibility for part-time)

Join Our Team We're looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Advisor to join Anglian Water's People Services team. This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in delivering an accurate, compliant and customer-focused payroll service for approximately 6,750 employees. As a subject matter expert, you'll support the Payroll Manager, provide guidance to colleagues, resolve complex payroll queries and drive continuous improvement across payroll processes. Working closely with HR, Finance and external providers, you'll use SAP and Workday to ensure an excellent service is delivered to employees across the business.

What You'll Be Doing

• Processing and overseeing monthly payroll activities, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Acting as the escalation point for complex payroll queries and employee cases.
• Maintaining employee records in SAP and Workday.
• Managing statutory payments, deductions, pensions, salary sacrifice schemes and payroll benefits.
• Supporting complex payroll activities including redundancy payments, TUPE transfers and family leave pay.
• Completing payroll reconciliations, journals, audits and month-end reporting.
• Ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations, pension legislation and employment law.
• Producing statutory submissions including RTI, P60s, P11Ds and ONS reporting.
• Working closely with Finance, Employee Relations and external providers to resolve issues and improve processes.
• Supporting Payroll Advisors while leading continuous improvement initiatives and payroll projects.

What We're Looking For

• 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, analytical skills and problem-solving ability.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build relationships across teams.
• CIPP qualification or equivalent experience would be advantageous.

Why Anglian Water?

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge. We are also signatories of Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers, are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and play a leading role in the Women's Utility Network.

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.

We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [e-mail]’

Ready to make a difference? We'd love to hear from you. If you're passionate about payroll, enjoy solving complex challenges and want to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you. Ready to make a difference?

Closing date: Wednesday 07 October Interviews: October - Dates TBC #loveeverydrop #LI-NV1

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Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.