Payroll Services Officer
Salary: £27,290–£29,354
Location: Loughborough, Leicestershire
Hybrid: 3 days office / 2 days home
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
The Role
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Payroll Services Officer to join an established payroll team within a large education organisation. You'll support the delivery of high-volume monthly payrolls, processing payments for approximately 4,800 employees across multiple organisations.
Key Responsibilities
- Support end-to-end payroll processing across high-volume monthly payrolls.
- Process starters, leavers, employee changes and payroll adjustments.
- Ensure payrolls are completed accurately and within strict deadlines.
- Maintain accurate payroll records and HR systems data.
- Process statutory payments, pensions and third-party deductions.
- Complete payroll reconciliations and checks before BACS submissions.
- Respond to employee and manager payroll queries.
- Analyse payroll data and produce reports when required.
- Work closely with HR colleagues to resolve payroll issues.
- Support payroll projects, process improvements and continuous improvement initiatives.
Ideal Candidate
- Previous UK payroll processing experience, ideally within a high-volume environment.
- Good understanding of UK payroll legislation, statutory payments and pensions.
- Strong Excel skills and confidence working with payroll data.
- Experience completing payroll reconciliations and checking payroll accuracy.
- Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills.
- Confident communicating with employees and internal stakeholders.
- Comfortable working collaboratively within a payroll team.
- Education or university payroll experience advantageous but not essential.
- Awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion desirable.
- Able to commute to Loughborough 3 days per week.
JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.
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