Payroll & Benefits Specialist

**The Company**:
GRIDSERVE’s purpose is to deliver sustainable energy and move the needle on climate change. We develop, construct, own and operate solutions within the ultra-rapid electric vehicle charging, commercial-scale solar and energy storage spaces to achieve this. The company has a variety of products in our Sun-To-Wheel’ ecosystem which combine these solutions not only to increase our impact on climate change, but also to provide an excellent customer experience and improve profitability. In the wake of Infracapital’s recent £200m investment we are looking to scale significantly.

For instance, our flagship Electric Forecourts include ultra-rapid charging, Electric Vehicle events and retail such as M&S and Costa to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles. Solar is also included to decarbonise this charging, as well as energy storage to balance the electricity grid. Following the acquisition of the Electric Highway from Ecotricity, GRIDSERVE also now owns the UK’s leading motorway charging network of High Power Electric Hubs, covering 80% of the UK’s major motorways and featuring 3 of the 5 busiest charging locations in the UK. The company is now deploying many more of these, alongside Destination Hubs which serve busy shopping centres and garden centres.

The final component of our UK ecosystem is our Solar Hybrids, which ensure that we are putting as much green energy into the grid as our EV charging customers are consuming. These solar farms use state of the art technology such as tracking systems which follow the sun’s movement over the day to increase yields, and bifacial solar panels which also generate energy from their underside.

**Key Responsibilities**:
We are currently searching for a Payroll and Benefits Specialist to join our team.

The Payroll Department at GRIDSERVE is looking for a dynamic Payroll and Benefits Specialist to assist in all aspects of payroll processing and analytics, ensuring performance is maintained at efficient and at optimal levels. This role will support all payroll/tax activities and projects for UK and serves as a backup in the absence of staff support.

**Responsibilities**:

- Ensure accurate and timely data transactions.
- Assists in balancing and reconciliation of each payroll on a Monthly and Annual basis.
- Reporting on usage of benefits, sickness taken, salary benchmarking, and analysis.
- Prepare and upload EIB data.
- Prepare monthly finance reconciliation reports.
- Assist with employee queries.
- Working on sourcing a new supplier for payroll.
- Experienced in wide variety of platforms.
- Working with 3rd party to process payroll but confident to take full ownership of payroll and benefits program.
- Review and audit employees Pensions contributions.
- Review returned pre and post audit reports each pay cycle from HR Partners.
- Research issues and provide recommendations for resolution/correction related to payroll/tax processing activities and outputs (checks, reports, files).
- Engage with the wider team and provide the best mix of benefits to engage retain top talent.
- Benchmarking on benefits alongside research and presentation of ideas.
- Creating proposals and budgets to help the company grow their offerings.
- Sickness and absence policy strategy.
- Ensure the teams fully understand what is on offer by holding learning sessions, benefits induction working alongside marketing.
- Managing the proposition of the company for all to see using the Intranet.

**Skills & Experience Required**:

- University degree or equivalent and 2yrs + UK payroll experience, including some experience in implementation and HRIS/payroll system.
- Detail-orientated and self-motivation are essential
- Communicating clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
- Basic knowledge of an HRIS/payroll system & reporting
- Knowledge of MS office software; intermediate knowledge of Excel preferred
- Ability to maintain the confidentiality of employee records and information
- Strong team player, with the ability to work cooperatively with individuals at all levels
- Possesses strong technical and analytical skills and can deal well with complexity and abstraction
- Handles multiple and concurrent tasks in a fast-paced environment with little supervision
- Makes decisions in a timely manner, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines
- Capable of being well organized and command strong planning skills
- Professionalism, interpersonal and the ability to work with various personalities

**Company Culture & Values**:
GRIDSERVE® prides itself on providing a workplace that is friendly, encourages creativity and independence, empowering each team member to work at their best. We are passionate with an entrepreneurial spirit, hard-working but always find time to let our hair down’. Our Iver office is set in a private estate with lavish open grounds providing a great environment to work in.

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