Birmingham Hippodrome
Payroll & Benefits Specialist
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Join Birmingham Hippodrome as our Payroll & Benefits Specialist and play a key role in ensuring our people are paid accurately, supported through great benefits, and valued every step of the way.
£19,800 - £21,134.40 per annum, depending on experience
Part-time - 0.6 FTE across 3-5 days per week
Permanent
Hybrid
Closes 28 July 2026
ABOUT US:
With a mission to enrich the cultural life of our region, Birmingham Hippodrome is one of the most popular theatre complexes in the UK. Varied productions in our 1,850-seat auditorium (dating from 1899), and in our 200-seat Patrick Studio ensure we play a key role in the region’s world-class cultural scene. With c.400 live performances annually in our main house, we present nothing but the best in touring musical theatre, ballet, dance, opera, pantomime, drama, and comedy. Our Patrick Studio welcomes a range of smaller-scale productions and is an important base for dance and for the development of new artistic work.
🍦Fun fact: Birmingham Hippodrome has the largest stage of any UK theatre outside of London.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
Our Payroll & Benefits Specialist will oversee and manage payroll processing for all employees and flexible workers at Birmingham Hippodrome, alongside coordinating the varied provision of benefits offered to our people. Our Payroll & Benefits Specialist will be the first point of contact for all compensation, payroll and benefits-related queries.
This is a permanent role, on a part-time basis of 22.5 hours per week, ideally spread over 5 days per week, and reports into our Head of People, Culture & Talent. The role is predominantly based onsite at Birmingham Hippodrome, with a minimum of 3 days working onsite per week. Pro rata salary is £19,800 - £21,134.40 per annum, depending on experience.
Working as part of the wider People, Culture & Talent team, the Payroll & Benefits Specialist will contribute to the delivery of our People Strategy, helping to ensure Birmingham Hippodrome continues to be a positive, inclusive and high-performing place to work for everyone.
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ABOUT YOU:
We're looking for someone with strong UK in-house payroll knowledge, with experience of end-to-end processing, managing company pensions, organising benefit schemes, and using payroll systems such as Staffology. You'll have a comprehensive understanding of payroll and tax, and superb numerical skills, including data analysis and Excel. You'll also maintain excellent attention to detail while working at pace, have great people skills, and be able to answer queries with confidence and friendliness, in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate would also have a payroll-related qualification or CPD.
For full details of the role and the person we are looking for please view the Candidate Pack for this role.
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Recognising under-representation in our workforce of the global majority, and people with disabilities, we particularly welcome applicants from those backgrounds. Birmingham Hippodrome is proud to be part of the Disability Confident Scheme.
If you require an accessible/plain text version of the candidate pack, please email talent@birminghamhippodrome.com
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