Payroll & Benefits Specialist

Position: Payroll & Benefits Specialist
THIS IS A 9 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT*
* Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our Payroll & Benefits team

Softcat's payroll team is part of a larger HR department that includes HR Services, Learning & Development, Reward, Recruitment, Diversity & Inclusion, and Employee Engagement. The team collaborates to ensure that all payroll and benefit tasks are completed efficiently and accurately, working with various stakeholders across the business, such as Finance, HR Services, Benefits, and Reward.

Success. The Softcat Way.

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future.

So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

Streamlining payroll with precision, compliance, and accuracy

As a Payroll and Benefits specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring smooth payroll processing with timely, accurate information, conducting checks on monthly reports before management approval, and maintaining full compliance with payroll and pension legislation.

As a Payroll & Benefits specialist, you'll be responsible for:

Processing payroll cycles for multiple regions including expenses processing

Validating and signing off payroll checks and controls

Managing daily workload and responding to payroll-related emails

Maintaining comprehensive guidance notes and ensuring payroll system efficiency

Collaborating with HR and management on benefits administration and improvements

Acting as a subject matter expert for payroll queries and contribute to related projects

We'd love you to have

Detailed understanding of taxation, payroll, and pensions legislations

Experience with payroll inputting, output checking, and accounting principles

Familiarity with international payroll processing (e.g., Ireland, US, Singapore)

Excellent IT skills, including Excel, HR, and payroll systems

Strong communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills

Ability to engage with stakeholders and handle pay/benefits queries effectively

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

Hybrid working – 1-2 days in the office and rest working from home  

Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  

Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at (url removed)/jobs/our-culture