Syme Drummond
Reward & Payroll Specialist
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Reward & Payroll Specialist | Cumbernauld
4-Month FTC | Hybrid
Are you a payroll expert with experience across reward and benefits? Or perhaps you’re a Reward specialist with a strong hands-on payroll background?
We are delighted to be exclusively supporting our customer, AG Barr, the iconic business behind some of the UK’s favourite drinks. We’re looking for a Reward & Payroll Specialist to provide cover during a period of absence within the team.
This is a hands-on role combining reward and flexible benefits activity with specialist payroll support. You’ll need to be self-sufficient, comfortable working with data and ready to hit the ground running.
What You’ll Do
- Payroll: Act as the technical point of escalation for the People Co-ordinators, working with the outsourced payroll provider to resolve complex queries, validate outputs and strengthen reconciliations.
- Reward and Benefits: Support the flexible benefits programme, reward reporting, benefits enrolment and wider reward projects.
- Compliance: Support P11Ds, National Minimum Wage checks, company car submissions and preparations for PBIK changes.
- Projects: Contribute to employee share plan activity, the digitisation of Long-Term Incentive Plans and ongoing process improvements.
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What We Need
- Strong practical experience across UK payroll, reconciliations and complex payroll queries.
- Experience working with an outsourced payroll provider or within a managed payroll service.
- Previous reward or flexible benefits experience, or a genuine interest in developing further within this area.
- Confidence working with data using Excel or Google Sheets, including VLOOKUPs and pivot tables.
- A positive, self-sufficient approach and the confidence to question or challenge when something doesn’t look right.
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Why AG Barr?
- You’ll join an ambitious, friendly and collaborative People team where you’ll be trusted to get stuck in, share your knowledge and make an impact quickly.
- The role offers hybrid working, with three days per week in Cumbernauld and two from home, alongside flexibility around start and finish times.
- This is an immediate requirement, so we’re particularly keen to hear from applicants who are available now or at short notice.
Ready to make your mark? Apply today!
Or reach out to lynne.friel@symedrummond.co.uk for further information.
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