Salary: £26,135 - £29,000 per annum (DOE) + Comprehensive Benefits
Hours: 37.5 Hours Per Week
Type: Permanent
Location: Lytham St Annes (Fully office based)
Start Date: ASAP
Work Pattern: Monday – Friday
Are you a detail-driven payroll professional with a passion for accuracy and efficiency? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment and want to be part of a growing and supportive team? We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Payroll Officer to join a well-established and fast-paced organisation in the retail sector.
As a Payroll Officer, you’ll be a vital part of the Payroll & Benefits Team, supporting the delivery of an accurate, timely, and compliant payroll service for over 1,000 employees across multiple sites. You'll play a key role in end-to-end payroll processing, benefits administration, and supporting internal stakeholders with essential reporting and analysis.
Key responsibilities
- Full end-to-end payroll processing for over 1,000 employees, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and compliance with legislation.
- Process and record absence-related data, including sickness, holiday, maternity and paternity leave.
- Manage timesheet calculations and attachments of earnings.
- Maintain and review payroll-related communications and act promptly on queries and updates.
- Administer employee benefits including pensions and other pay-related entitlements.
- Ensure correct coding and reporting aligned to pay and HR data, including Gender Pay Gap and National Living Wage compliance.
- Act as a point of contact for payroll-related queries across the business.
- Support payroll reporting and assist with continuous improvement of processes and system integrations.
- Collaborate with the HR and finance teams on ad hoc payroll-related administrative duties.
Essential:
- Experience in end-to-end payroll processing within a fast-paced business environment.
- Strong working knowledge of National Living Wage legislation and Gender Pay Gap reporting
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including VLOOKUPs and accurate data entry.
- Strong decision-making skills with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
- Comfortable working in environments where systems and processes are evolving.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain payroll matters clearly to non-specialists.
- Previous payroll experience in a multisite or retail environment.
- Exposure to payroll system integrations.
- Experience managing benefits in kind through the Payrolling Benefits
- Ability to adapt to workplaces with flexible procedures and policies.
- 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Contributory pension scheme & life assurance
- Generous colleague discounts extended to family and friends
- Wellbeing scheme and access to family counselling through the Retail Trust
- Charity support schemes for causes close to your heart
- Office profit share bonus scheme
If you require any additional information regarding the position, please call Lewis at Service Care Solutions on 01772 208 966 or send an E-Mail to Lewis.Hodson@servicecare.org.uk
