Payroll Executive

**We're looking for a Payroll Executive to join our fantastic Payroll team at JD Sports**
- Job Title - Payroll Executive
- Location - Bury Head Office (BL9 8RR)
- Working rota - Mon-Fri
- Working hours - 40 hours

The Payroll team supports our colleagues across the business by ensuring their pay is processed seamlessly and easily. Our aim is to deliver a first-class service, so our colleagues can keep doing what they do best.

The Payroll Executive role is integral to making this happen. You will be responsible for overseeing payroll for some of our 30,000 colleagues, working with the payroll associates to meet key deadlines, and to make sure payroll is delivered right first time and in the right way.

You will be a key player in supporting the team and the wider business. You will be responsible for processing payrolls and peer reviewing the payroll processing of other team members. You will be able to break down processes and complex queries in a way that is understandable for the team and for our colleagues across the business. Putting the colleague first is at the heart of what we do.

**What You'll Be Doing**:
As a Payroll Reward, **you'll **be doing the following:

- Overseeing the completion of payrolls that are part of a payroll service for 30,000 colleagues over 32 payrolls, including 5 Offshore payrolls, over lunar and monthly payrolls.
- You will be responsible for investigating and resolving complex queries from our colleagues across the business.
- Supporting and training team members on payroll processes, and colleague queries.
- Ensuring that payroll is processed right first time and in the right way, in line with internal policies and legislative requirements.
- Measure the success of the team, looking for ways to continuously improve our processes and accuracy and, with the support of management, putting these changes into place.
- Supporting key stakeholders and departments across the business and cascading data and reports as required.

**What We're Looking For**:

- Previous experience of working with complex and high-volume payrolls
- A good to excellent understanding of tax and NI rules and able to calculate advances, arrears and additional payment values.
- Awareness of the administration of HMRC remittances, court orders, and employee benefits like pensions and healthcare
- A desire to learn and continuously improve.
- A keen eye for detail and accuracy
- Being able to keep our colleagues at the centre of all you do.
- Able to organise your time to meet key deadlines both by yourself and as part of the team.
- Excellent communication skills to be able to break down pay queries to make it understandable for our colleagues and your team members.

**The Company**:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
- Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
- Discounted Gym membership
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
- Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

**Interested?***

Thank you again for your time.

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