Payroll Officer

Would you like to be part of Vital Energi’s Strategy of Growth? The Opportunity

Vital Energi is currently looking to welcome a Payroll Officer to our HR & People team based at our head office in Blackburn.

As a Payroll Officer at Vital Energi, reporting to our Group HR Office & Payroll Manager, you will support and co‑coordinate the full company end to end payroll to ensure timely and accurate payments to all employees, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations. Liaising closely with the Payroll Assistant and the wider People team to ensure payroll related administration throughout the full employee life cycle are completed.

You will take responsibility for ensuring annual tasks including PAYE settlement, P11d submissions and salary reviews are completed. This is an exciting and varied role where you will support on departmental reconciliations, annual audits, preparing management information and journals along with identifying opportunities and drive for efficiencies.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who’s thrived in a small or mid‑sized business, enjoys rolling up their sleeves with manual payroll processing, knows their way around payment reconciliations, and isn’t fazed by the more complex payroll challenges and tackling them with accuracy, confidence, and a can‑do attitude.

Vital Energi is a leading provider of renewable energy infrastructure and systems to the public and private sectors. We are supporting Hospitals, Universities, New Build developments, Towns and Cities as well as Industrial and Commercial clients to decarbonise their buildings.

We have and continue to work on ground‑breaking projects throughout the UK which are supporting the UK’s Net Zero targets, such as the recently announced £1 billion low‑carbon infrastructure project for Westminster.

With plans to double our headcount over the coming years, supported by offices opening in new locations across the country and our strong investment pipeline, coupled with our expansion into new markets such as industrial power generation with our very own Energy‑from‑Waste facility, there is no better time to join the family here at Vital Energi.

• Co‑coordinate and support the monthly end‑to‑end payroll process, ensuring timely and accurate payments to all employees.
• Oversee and manage the payrolling of company benefits
• Reconcile and submit monthly pension contribution and ensure pension contributions and auto‑enrolment duties are accurately processed.
• Ensure Monthly reporting to HMRC reconciles and is submitted
• Ensure payroll operations adhere to UK payroll legislation, including PAYE, NI, statutory payments, and pensions
• Conduct payroll reconciliations and prepare payroll reports for management.
• Preparation and submission of P11D and PSA in compliance with HMRC regulations.
• Prepare and reconcile the company Death in Service and Healthcare policy reconciliations
• Act as a point of contact for payroll and benefit related queries from employees and stakeholders.
• Oversee year‑end payroll processes, including P60s and statutory reporting.
• Identify and implement process improvements to enhance payroll efficiency and compliance.
• Prepare annual payroll journal and assist with audits.
• Assist and support with the preparation of company annual salary budget and salary review.

• Successful portfolio in an end‑to‑end payroll role
• Payroll Qualification - CIPP (desirable but not essential)
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, including PAYE, NI, and statutory benefits.
• Proficiency in payroll systems and strong Excel skills.
• Hands‑on experience managing P11D and PSA submission

Applications will be processed within 28 days of receipt. If you have not heard from us within this time period it will mean that your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful. Thanks you for your interest in Vital Energi.

The company is opposed to all forms of discrimination and will select for employment, training and promotion on the basis of suitability for the job and/ or merit. It is company policy that no job…