National Highways
HR Advisor - Pay
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About the job.
We have an exciting opportunity available to join our HR Shared Services Team as a HR Advisor in Pay! As a HR Advisor, you’ll provide a customer-focused service through providing timely support and guidance to our people in terms of their pay. You’ll also work closely with key stakeholders across HR and the business to swiftly resolve queries.
The queries and requests that the team handle can relate to Pension, Reward and Performance, PAYE, Third Party Deduction, Statutory Payments, Cycle to Work, P11D and more. The role requires a high level of detail to accurately process data, information, and requests.
Interviews are expected to take place during the week commencing 10 August, with a planned start date of 21 September.
- Provide first-line advice and take responsibility for the accurate resolution of pay-related queries to managers and employees.
- Perform data changes in Payroll systems and audit payroll data to ensure that we are providing a compliant service.
- Understand and be able to communicate HR policies, processes, and procedures that impact pay to employees and managers.
- Accurately process payroll elements on employee records with a right first-time approach and review payroll reports to ensure our people are paid accurately.
- Collate and monitor trends in queries and processes to suggest continuous improvement amendments as required.
About you.
- Payroll experience including Statutory Payments, P11D, Rewards, Pension, HMRC, and basic tax queries, P11 calculations (desirable).
- Vocational or standard qualifications – either GCSE/A-Levels or NVQ/Apprenticeship.
- Some knowledge of HR policies and processes, with a mix of sector experience (desirable).
- Able to build and maintain strong relationships within HR and with our people.
- Experience of Microsoft Office along with solid verbal and written communication skills.
About us.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers, and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork, and ownership.
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Our HR directorate includes a wide range of services to support our people to be the best they can be, and to enable the organisation to achieve its goals and objectives.
We're fully committed to making National Highways a great place to work. We want an inclusive culture where our people feel informed, motivated, engaged - and always reaching for high levels of performance.
Through our People Strategy we're also building our company's resilience, making it better prepared for the future - and we're always striving to improve our day-to-day services.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
Why you should join us
At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included, and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.
A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.
We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.
Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.
Our benefits package
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- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance-related bonus.
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%.
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays).
- Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working.
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary.
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days, and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service, and flu vaccines.
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel.
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring, and on-job experience.
And we are
- Family-friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), e.g., for caring responsibilities.
- Money-friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme.
- Community-friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year.
If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:
- Right to work check.
- 3-year employment history references.
- DBS criminal record check.
- Social media and adverse journalism check.
- Driving licence check (if applicable).
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable).
- Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable).
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