Payroll advisor

2 weeks ago


Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom IMPERIAL BRANDS Full time £30,000 - £45,000 per year

The Role

Location: Bristol/Hybrid

This role is offered as a 12 month Fixed Term Opportunity

Join a Global FMCG Leader and Make an Impact in Payroll

At Imperial Brands, we're proud to be an inclusive and innovative organisation, powered by 25,000 talented people worldwide. We're looking for a detail-driven Payroll Advisor to join our busy Finance team at our Bristol Head Office. This is your opportunity to play a key role in ensuring accurate and timely payroll for over 1,000 colleagues across multiple business areas – all while working in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.

Principle Accountabilities

  • Manage end-to-end monthly payroll processing, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
  • Maintain and control amendments to employee pay, including International Mobile Employees (IME).
  • Calculate and prepare international salary, tax, and pension payments.
  • Reconcile payroll data and provide returns and associated payments to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Support employees with payroll-related queries, delivering excellent customer service across all levels.
  • Liaise with third-party payroll providers and complete ad hoc tasks accurately and on time.

Skills and Experience Required

  • Previous experience of managing large payrolls with differing levels of complexity.
  • Knowledge of Tax & NI rules for UK & IMEs (International mobile employees).
  • High level of attention to detail.
  • Ability to work quickly & accurately under pressures to meet deadlines.
  • Ability to communicate effectively at all levels both within the organisation and externally.
  • Adaptable and able to quickly react to changing priorities.
  • Formal qualification preferable but more important is the ability to understand how to calculate pay.
  • Great organisational skills – prioritising your workload and working independently, whilst also being a brilliant team player.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all. Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we're fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

As a matter of policy, Imperial Tobacco or its subsidiaries never requests or requires payment as part of any recruitment process.

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