Senior Payroll Specialist

Manchester Arndale; Dublin; On-site; EUR 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free Online Doctor Consultations

Competitive Salary

21 Days Annual Leave increasing to 26

Birthday Leave after 1 year service

Staff Benefits/Discount Programme

Employee Assistance Programme

Training and Development Opportunities

Job summary

OCS UK & Ireland, based in Santry, Dublin, is seeking a payroll professional to process weekly payroll and ensure timely, accurate payments. The role involves data validation, handling payroll queries and liaising with tax authorities.

You will manage employee records, timesheets, and entitlements, while using SAP/iTrent where applicable. The role offers a competitive salary and development opportunities within a large, inclusive employer.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working with high volume payroll predominantly weekly.
• IPASS qualification essential.
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly Word and Excel.
• Knowledge/Experience of SAP desirable.
• Ability to work in an organised and methodical way.

Responsibilities

• Process and deliver weekly payroll to deadlines.
• Validate and input data to required standards and timescales.
• Handle routine and complex payroll queries from staff.
• Liaise with Revenue, Tax Office and Social Welfare Offices as required.
• Collate timesheets, entitlements and reconciliations for payroll.
• Maintain employee records (starters, leavers and changes) and manage absences.
• Run payroll reports and verify tax credits and deductions.

Skills

Payroll processing

High volume payroll

IPASS

MS Office (Word & Excel)

Interpersonal communication

Education

IPASS qualification

Tools

SAP

iTrent

Job description

About The Company:

OCS UK & Ireland is a leading facilities management company with 50,000+ colleagues and a turnover in excess of £2bn. We deliver innovative, award-winning services within facilities management, hard services, cleaning, security and catering.

Our mission is to make people and places the best they can be for our colleagues, customers and the communities we serve. Our commitment to doing business the right way is rooted in our TRUE values - Trust, Respect, Unity, and Empowerment.

Why Work for OCS?

Award-Winning Employer: Ranked 36th on Glassdoor’s Best Companies to Work For 2025 — we value and motivate our people.

Digital Learning: The OCS Academy offers digital courses and resources to help you build skills and grow your career.

Retail Perks With our Hapi app, you can gain access to exclusive discounts, rewards and wellbeing resources.

Professional Growth: 600+ live learners across UK&I — Empowering colleagues with further development and qualifications!

Flexible Pay: Access a portion of earned wages before payday with our Wagestream App! (Contract Specific)

About The Role:

Working Location: You will be based in our Santry office 5 days a week.

We offer a wide range of support and benefits to our employees including:

• Free Online Doctor Consultations via Web-doctor
• Competitive Salary
• 21 Days Annual Leave increasing with service to 26 Days
• Additional Leave Day on your Birthday after 1 year service
• Staff Benefits/Discount Programme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Training and Development Opportunities

Key Responsibilities:

• Process and deliver fortnightly payroll
• Ensure payroll delivered on time to agreed deadlines and to necessary standards
• Validating and inputting all data received to agreed deadlines
• Checking inputted data and making all relevant corrections
• Handling routine, non-routine and complex customer queries regarding payroll
• Liaising with both internal and external contacts like Revenue, Tax Office, Social Welfare Offices etc.
• Collating, if necessary, timesheets, holiday entitlements, reconciling hours
• Administration of employee information into the system such as starters, leavers and employee changes; and the processing of absences and time amendments
• Deal with payroll queries on pay, tax and PRSI deductions, hours worked and holidays
• Running and reviewing reports from payroll system, changes in bank information, email addresses telephone numbers of existing employees before payroll import
• Importing Tax credits & SRCOP from ROS including payroll period submissions
  Checking of Job sheets for discrepancies and making any necessary adjustments to ensure wage payments are correct for invoicing client ad hoc and periodicals
• Update names template with leavers
• Completing of statutory documents, forms, letter requests scanning forms and saving into relevant folder, updating post Log. Social Welfare forms including Maternity Benefit MB10, FIS Responding to and resolving colleague queries as they arise with operation managers.

Essential Hiring Criteria:

• Proven experience working with high volume payroll predominantly weekly
• Excellent opportunity to progress to a higher level Payroll position as the business continues to expand
• IPASS qualification essential
• Excellent attention to detail and working in a busy environment
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, particularly in Word and Excel Knowledge/Experience of SAP is desirable although not essential
• Ability to work in an organised and methodical way.
• Understanding of iTrent system would be an advantage.

We are an equal opportunities employer and rely on a diverse workforce with a broad range of knowledge, skills, and backgrounds to deliver our goals. We offer an inclusive and welcoming environment and actively encourage applications from all individuals regardless of race, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or age.