Senior Payroll Advisor

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

• Work with 2 senior payroll Advisors to manage the accurate and timely end to end processing of 3 UK payrolls.
• Manage BAU benefit activity for a headcount circa 2,400.
• Review UK payroll processes & implement improvements.
• Act as back up to Senior Manager for audit activity.
• Act as a back up for overseas payroll BAU processing and approvals.
• Work closely with colleagues to harmonise payroll processes and documentation across Europe.
• Maintain and develop payroll statistics.

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

• 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.

• 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).

• 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 (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.

• 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.