Vanilla Recruitment
Payroll Specialist
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Payroll Specialist
We're delighted to be recruiting a Payroll Specialist on behalf of a well-established and growing retail business. The Payroll Specialist is a standalone role reporting to the Financial Controller and offers the opportunity to take full ownership of a high-volume payroll function, ensuring the accurate and compliant processing of payroll for a workforce of over 1,000 employees. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining payroll integrity, delivering high-quality reporting, and supporting continuous improvement across payroll systems and processes.
Salary and Benefits
- Up to £45,000
- 37 hours per week
- 23 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year to a maximum of 27 days, plus Bank Holidays
- Company pension scheme
- Staff discount
- On-site parking
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- Manage the end-to-end payroll process for a workforce of 1,000+ employees, ensuring accuracy and timely completion
- Process starters, leavers, contractual changes, statutory payments (SSP and SMP), and holiday pay calculations in line with current legislation
- Validate, reconcile and audit payroll data, maintaining robust payroll controls, checks and procedures
- Process BACS payments and investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies and employee queries
- Maintain accurate employee records within Sage 50 Payroll and SAP HR systems, ensuring data integrity and GDPR compliance
- Produce payroll, labour cost, pension, National Insurance, bonus and commission reports to support business decision-making
- Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities and efficiencies within the payroll function
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Required Skills and Experience
- Previous experience in a Payroll Manager, Payroll Supervisor or similar payroll position with responsibility for high-volume payroll processing
- Proven experience managing payroll for 1,000+ employees, including statutory payments, holiday pay calculations and payroll reconciliations
- Strong working knowledge of Sage 50 Payroll is essential
- Experience of SAP HR systems would be advantageous
- Intermediate Excel skills, including VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, pivot tables
- Strong understanding of payroll legislation, compliance requirements, audit controls and GDPR principles
- Excellent organisational, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and build effective relationships across departments
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