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Payroll Reporting Specialist

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Job Title: Payroll Reporting Specialist
Location: Birmingham
Corporate Title: Associate
You will join the UK Payroll team within Regional HR Operations, supporting the accurate and timely payment of Deutsche Bank employees across the UK, Ireland and Sweden. As a Payroll Reporting Specialist, you will play an important role in payroll reporting, reconciliations, balance sheet substantiation and employment duty related activity. You will work closely with internal stakeholders across Payroll, Compensation Finance and wider HR Operations, helping ensure payroll accounts and reporting outputs are accurate, controlled and delivered on time. This is an opportunity to build specialist payroll, reporting and reconciliation experience in a collaborative team supporting a complex, high-volume environment.
What we’ll offer you
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You can expect:
- Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
- Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
- Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
- A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
- The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year
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Your key responsibilities
- Prepare and support UK and Ireland regulatory and statutory payroll reporting, including PAYE Settlement Agreement, Gender Pay Gap Reporting and Director Remuneration reporting.
- Complete UK and Ireland payroll reconciliations before expenses are booked into the finance system and shared with Compensation Finance.
- Ensure payroll accounts accurately reflect the payroll payable position and that outstanding items are cleared within expected timelines.
- Act as Primary Account Owner and substantiation preparer for UK, Ireland and Sweden compensation related balance sheet accounts.
- Manage payroll and compensation finance related queries from internal and external stakeholders, building strong and trusted working relationships.
- Monitor, authorise and record manual payroll bank account payments, including recording transactions into finance systems and the relevant general ledger accounts.
Your skills and experience
- Experience in payroll reconciliations, ideally gained within a high-volume UK payroll environment.
- Good understanding of payroll reporting, payroll accounting and employment tax return processes.
- Strong planning, organisation and follow-up skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities accurately and on time.
- Ability to work collaboratively with Payroll, Finance and HR stakeholders, providing clear and service-focused support.
- A continuous learning mindset, with openness to innovation, change and process improvement.
- Experience using SAP Payroll or similar payroll systems would be beneficial.
- Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs


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How we’ll support you
- Training and development to help you excel in your career
- Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
- We value diversity and as an equal opportunities’ employer, we make reasonable adjustments for those with a disability such as the provision of assistive equipment if required (e.g. screen readers, assistive hearing devices, adapted keyboards)
- Please note the expected salary for some roles may be below the minimum level requirements to support candidates who require a Skilled Worker visa to work in the UK. Should you already have a Skilled Worker visa and are identified for a role, we can discuss and support you with the process
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Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to be named in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality and has been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers.
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