Payroll Specialist

**Job Title**: Payroll Specialist (contract)

**Job Location**: Sunbury-on-Thames (Hybrid)

**Industry**: Oil and Energy, Financial Services

**Contract Length**: 6 months (opportunity to go permanent)

**Working hours**: 7.5 per day/ 37.5 per week

Engagement via umbrella company only

Must have the right to work and reside in the UK

Responsible for supporting HR Services delivery which will include providing payroll services, supporting internal HR and cross HR Delivery Centre operational and service management reporting, resolving complex queries, providing guidance on the organisational data change process, and processing organisational data change requests and mass data uploads.

**What you will have**:

- Prepare and monitor payroll data ensuring processes and data are in place for payroll processing as per country requirements and regulations.
- Work in coordination with the outsourced service provider to ensure gross to net data is prepared and submitted in time, review pre-payroll run data and verification, and provide final sign off to vendor prior to final payroll runs to employees.
- Conduct start of year and end of year payroll administration, preparation and processing activities working with payroll service provider.
- Support audits and regulatory requests for payroll data and respond to and process requests for changes to Payroll data.
- Monitor payroll input data quality (e.g. rewards, performance, time and attendance etc.) and process payroll impacts.

**What you will need**:

- Vast knowledge and working experience of the end to end payroll process.
- Knowledge of Workday (HR and Payroll) and ADP (SAP) systems
- Working knowledge of Excel - Intermediate to Advanced level
- CIPP qualification (desirable)
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with high volumes to strict deadlines.
- Attention to detail
- Applies judgement and common sense
- Analytic and logic approach to problem solving