Supporting the Senior Payroll and Benefits Manager and working with key stakeholders* you will

·        Work with 2 senior payroll Advisors to manage:

o    The accurate and timely end to end processing of 3 UK payrolls.

o    BAU benefit activity for a headcount circa 2,400.

·        Review UK payroll processes & implement improvements.

·        Act as back up to Senior Manager

o    Benefit provider management.

o    Audit activity.

·        Act a back up to for overseas payroll BAU processing and approvals.

·        Work closely with colleagues to harmonise payroll processes and documentation across Europe.

·        Maintain and develop payroll statistics

·        Manage invoice processing

* HRBPs & Admins, HR ops team, Finance, People Solutions, Reward Team

Key Skills: 

Essential

·        Able to take the lead and comfortable with assigning tasks and requesting updates for team members.

·        Organised and focused on helping the team provide a consistent level of output and accuracy.

·        Experience of payroll processing, data entry through to reconciliation and reporting.

·        Attention to detail.

·        Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines.

·        Focus on customer service.

Superb organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively.
 

Pre-requisites:

Experienced in-house Payroller having worked in a busy payroll environment.

Had experience of overseeing other team members and ensuring work delivery.

Role is hybrid based and the individual must be prepared to attend the office 3 days per week.

Some payroll system functions need to run out of hours, the individual must be prepared to run reports and updates prior to 8am/after 6pm (these can be done on working from home days and take minutes to run but must be done when all users are out of the system).
 

Other information:

·        Current Team Size: 1 x Senior Payroll Manager, 2 x Senior Payroll Advisors

·        Payroll System: Zellis Resource Link, outsourced providers

·        1 x PAYE payroll circa 2,200, 2 x LLP (non-PAYE payrolls), Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Malta payrolls via local bureau.

This is an excellent opportunity to join Lockton’s People Team in a newly created role. As Senior Payroll Advisor you will oversee the day to day running of key aspects of the payroll function.

Key responsibilities:

·        Acting as a senior member of the Payroll Advisor team, providing advice and guidance where needed to Payroll, HR & Finance stakeholders.

·        Monitoring workflows ensuring that the team are focused and on target to close the payroll within the given timetable.

·        Monitoring the Payroll email inbox ensuring queries are responded to in a timely manner.

·        Exception reporting and auditing payroll data to ensure audit compliance.

·        Managing & performing day-to-day processing of the UK payrolls including input, reconciliation and report running.