Uk Payroll Executive

Role

As a UK Payroll Senior / Mid-Level Associate, you will support the accurate and timely delivery of UK payroll activities. Depending on experience, you will independently process and validate payroll transactions, investigate queries and exceptions, support reconciliations and controls, and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team. More complex matters will be handled independently or escalated to the Payroll Team Lead / SME as appropriate.

Your responsibilities:

• Process and validate UK payroll inputs and transactions within agreed payroll timelines.
• Handle employee lifecycle transactions, including starters, leavers, salary changes and other contractual changes.
• Process variable pay, bonuses, deductions, statutory payments, benefits, loans and other payroll adjustments.
• Apply PAYE, National Insurance, tax codes and other UK payroll requirements correctly.
• Support RTI processing, FPS and EPS activities, payroll corrections and statutory reporting.
• Process workplace pension and automatic-enrolment activities.
• Perform payroll reconciliations, variance checks, exception reviews and quality controls.
• Investigate payroll discrepancies and resolve employee payroll queries.
• Handle complex payroll cases and escalate material risks or exceptions to the Team Lead / SME.
• Support payroll year-end activities, including P60, P11D, P11D(b) and payrolled-benefit processes where applicable.
• Maintain accurate payroll records and support internal and external audit requirements.
• Follow payroll calendars, cut-offs, control procedures and data-privacy requirements.
• Support other associates through process guidance and knowledge sharing.
• Participate in root-cause analysis, system testing, process changes, automation and continuous improvement.

Your Profile

Essential skills, knowledge and experience:

• Two to five years of relevant UK payroll experience, with the level of responsibility aligned to demonstrated capability.
• Strong understanding of PAYE, National Insurance, RTI, statutory payments, tax codes and year-end requirements.
• Experience processing starters, leavers, salary changes, deductions, statutory leave, benefits and other payroll transactions.
• Good knowledge of workplace pensions and automatic enrolment.
• Experience with payroll reconciliations, exception handling and quality checks.
• Ability to investigate and independently resolve payroll discrepancies and queries.
• Experience using Workday Payroll or another enterprise payroll system is desirable.
• Good Microsoft Excel skills, attention to detail and ability to meet strict payroll deadlines.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience:

• CIPP qualification or progress towards a recognized UK payroll qualification.
• Experience within a shared-service, managed-service or high-volume payroll environment.

Experience supporting payroll audits, system testing or process improvement .

*Willingness to work UK business hours [09.00 am to 6.00 pm UK time].*