Persimmon Homes
Payroll Administrator
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Job Title: Payroll Administrator
Location: York, YO19
Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as Payroll Administrator and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.
Why Persimmon Homes?
We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year.
At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as Payroll Administrator you’ll benefit from:
- Competitive salary
- 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
- Life Cover & Contributory Pension
- Bonus
- Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
- Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development
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What is the role?
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Payroll Team. This role reports into the Payroll Supervisor.
The purpose of the role is to assist with administrative duties within the Payroll Team.
What you’ll do as a Payroll Administrator
- Process and reconcile timesheets and other payroll inputs using the organisation's digital payroll systems, ensuring accurate employee pay and costing data while supporting regional businesses across the UK.
- Support payroll administration by processing new starters, leavers, statutory and contractual pay, holiday and absence records, payroll deductions, and HMRC reporting, ensuring compliance with payroll legislation and company procedures.
- Investigating and resolving payroll and timesheet queries.
- Liaising with local region contacts to ensure timely submission and approval of timesheets and payroll changes.
- Supporting payroll processing to meet deadlines.
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What experience do I need?
- Accuracy and Attention to detail are key to this role.
- Numeracy skills are essential.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and be flexible in the tasks undertaken.
- You must have a positive outlook together with a professional attitude.
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