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Payroll Specialist (FTC)
Payroll Specialist
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About the Role
People and Culture at Primark
Our team has created a workplace of inspiration and growth. Be a part of building an inclusive and empowering culture, where every colleague’s unique abilities are recognised and celebrated. Collaborate with a team committed to the wellbeing of our workforce, and define what it means to work at Primark.
Please note: This is a fixed-term contract opportunity
We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Deliver accurate and timely in-house payroll for over 33,000 UK and ROI colleagues, supporting end-to-end payroll processing and reconciliations.
- Support and deputise for the Payroll Manager, including payroll sign-off, prioritising critical tasks, monitoring deadlines, and managing risks.
- Ensure payroll activities are compliant and audit-ready, maintaining strong knowledge of legislation, pensions, statutory returns, year-end processes, and Primark policies.
- Lead by example by managing a complex payroll workload with high attention to detail, reviewing complex correspondence, and processing third-party payments.
- Drive continuous improvement, identifying efficiencies, supporting BAU projects, allocating resources effectively, and partnering with global payroll teams.
- Build strong relationships across payroll, compliance, governance, and wider business teams, while coaching and supporting team members and demonstrating Primark values.
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Benefits
People are at the heart of our business, so here’s what we offer:
- Comprehensive benefits package:
- Healthcare
- Pension contributions
- Potential bonus
- 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays
- Option to buy 5 additional leave days
- Tailored lifestyle support:
- Tax Saver Tickets
- Fitness centre access
- Subsidised cafeteria
Requirements
We want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self, along with the following key experience and abilities:
- Established payroll expertise, with 5+ years of experience (or a combination of payroll and broader industry experience), including hands-on knowledge of:
- SAP Payroll (UK)
- Mega Pay (ROI)
- Strong technical and legislative knowledge, including:
- Tax regulations
- Pensions
- Statutory returns
- Year-end payroll processes
- Problem-solving mindset: Hands-on and proactive, with a detailed understanding of team payrolls and the wider payroll landscape.
- Highly organised and resilient, able to:
- Manage multiple priorities
- Work to tight deadlines
- Stay calm under pressure
- Collaborative and communicative, with skills to:
- Coordinate effectively with teams
- Coach and support colleagues
- Exercise sound judgement and escalation where necessary
- Core values demonstrated:
- High levels of integrity
- Professionalism
- Accountability
- Primark values alignment
- Attention to detail
- Intermediate skills in Excel/MS tools
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About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to:
- A £9bn+ turnover business
- Over 80,000 colleagues
- 440+ stores in 17 countries today
Our core values run through everything we do:
- Caring: We always strive to put people first.
- Dynamic: We bravely push boundaries to stay ahead.
- Together: We succeed as a collective.
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All offers of employment are subject to:
- Background checks, including:
- Right to work
- Reference (education)
- For some roles: criminal and financial checks
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