Senior Payroll & Benefits Specialist - London, Greater London, United Kingdom
The Role
We are looking for a Senior Payroll Specialist to champion and elevate the payroll and benefits operations across our UK and Ireland businesses.
In this highly impactful role, you will drive the development, performance, and ongoing maintenance of our reward activities. You will serve as the subject matter expert for our employees, ensuring they are paid accurately and have access to top-tier benefits - while handling the day to day administration of our benefits schemes, maintaining and renewing accounts and promoting the pensions and benefits provision across the organisation and leading on benefits projects and initiatives with the support of the Rewards & Benefits Manager.
Key ares of responsibilities will include:
Payroll Management
- Manage start-to-finish in-house UK & Ireland Payrolls for approximately 400 employees, including a modified payroll for UK expats.
- Ensure compliance with current Revenue legislation and our corporate policies,



which includes conducting regular audits on data and systems.
- Assume responsibility for administering legislative changes (e.g. national minimum wage, auto-enrolment, tax and national insurance) and communicating these updates to the business.
- Ensure that submissions for pension schemes, HMRC and other statutory bodies are correct and completed on time.
- Reconcile monthly pension changes, submit final pension figures for payment and manage all auto enrolment responsibilities to remain compliant in the UK and Ireland.
- Liaise and advise the HR team and other Stakeholders on payroll and payroll related benefit inputs to ensure deadlines are met.
- Manage relationships with payroll providers to ensure staff are paid accurately and on time.
- Work closely with finance to deliver monthly journals.
- Research and resolve payroll discrepancies and errors in a timely manner.
- Review current processes to maximise efficiency, with the inten

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