Sulzer
Senior Payroll Specialist
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Sulzer is a leading engineering company with a proud heritage of innovation. Join our global team to grow your expertise and develop innovative solutions that enable a prosperous and more sustainable society.
About the Role
Sulzer is a global leader in fluid engineering, specialising in pumping, mixing, separation, and application technologies that help customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. With over 13,500 employees across approximately 160 sites worldwide and annual sales of around CHF 3.6 billion, Sulzer supports customers across industries including water, energy, and industrial markets.
This opportunity sits within our HR Shared Services team in Leeds, supporting payroll operations across multiple UK legal entities. It's an exciting time to join the team as we continue to evolve, improve processes, and deliver significant business change. Alongside managing day-to-day payroll activities, you'll play a key role in two major transformation programmes, supporting the ongoing Workday implementation and the future migration from iTrent to Strada, helping shape the future of payroll delivery within Sulzer.
As a growing and evolving function, this role offers the chance to make a genuine impact, contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, and support a business that is investing heavily in its people, systems, and processes.
Your Main Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Play a key role in ensuring payroll accuracy for approximately 1,250 UK employees, supporting 8 monthly payrolls and 1 weekly payroll across multiple UK legal entities.
- Process payroll changes including starters, leavers, absences, and contractual amendments.
- Ensure accurate calculation and processing of overtime, shift premiums, and other variable payments.
- Validate payroll data received from multiple sources, including integrated systems and manual submissions.
- Reconcile payroll information and resolve discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Ensure payrolls are processed accurately and in line with legislative and company requirements.
- Respond to payroll-related queries from employees and stakeholders.
- Support payroll reporting and audit requirements.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and payroll process optimisation.
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To Succeed in This Role, You Will Need:
- Proven experience in end-to-end payroll processing.
- Strong understanding of payroll legislation and payroll best practice.
- Experience processing variable pay elements such as overtime, shift allowances, and absence-related payments.
- Comfortable working with payroll and HR systems and managing data from multiple sources.
- Excellent attention to detail and a highly organised approach.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Able to build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and employees.
- Experience of iTrent, Workday, or payroll implementation projects would be advantageous but is not essential.
What We Offer You
We’ve recently invested significantly in modernising our Leeds facility - creating a brighter, more efficient, and more advanced workspace designed to support high-quality work and a great employee experience. Alongside our upgraded facilities, you’ll benefit from:
Core Benefits
- A competitive base salary
- Annual bonus linked to business and individual performance, paid as a single annual payment.
- Private Medical Insurance – Individual private medical cover provided through Aviva
- Medicash Health Cash Plan (covering everyday healthcare expenses such as dental, optical, and GP services)
- 33 days’ holiday
- Defined pension contribution
- Employee Assistance Programmes
- Discounts on shopping, entertainment & lifestyle
- Costco membership option
- Discounted personal car leasing for you, family & friends
- Long Service Awards
- Ongoing learning through Sulzer Learning Pathways
- Armed Forces Support – As a Silver Award holder of the MoD Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, we actively support veterans, reservists, and Cadet Adult Volunteers. This includes policies that enable time for training, camps, and deployment, alongside access to a growing internal military network.
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Onsite Perks
- Free, secure parking with EV charging
- Multi-faith prayer room
- Newly modernised work areas
- 24/7 onsite gym
- Subsidised vending machines
- Subsidised Canteen offering hot and cold food
- A vibrant Sports & Social Club with regular events, celebrations, prize draws, wellbeing initiatives, and activities that make Sulzer a great place to work.
Working Pattern
We operate a 37-hour working week with a flexible working arrangement, allowing employees to accrue and bank additional hours towards service leave. We also offer a hybrid working model, typically consisting of 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home, although this may vary depending on business requirements and operational needs.
Sulzer is an Equal Opportunity Employer
We believe in the strength of a diverse workforce and are committed to offering an inclusive work environment. We are proud to be recognized as a Top Employer 2026 in Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, Switzerland, South Africa, the UK, and the USA.
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