Payroll Specialist in Broughton, North Yorkshire

Finance Manager - £40,000-£45,000 + 10% Annual Bonus + 33 Days Holiday + Flexible Hours + Hybrid Working + Career Progression in Growing Business!

The Company

We are working with a market leader who are experiencing significant growth. They have some exciting future growth plans and are looking to add a Payroll Specialist to their team.

You will be joining a team of experienced industry professionals to work within the eCommerce and retail industry. The company is truly well regarded and leading brand name within their field and can provide a realistic career growth path for the right individual.

The Role

Reporting to the Finance Director, the Payroll Specialist will be the internal owner of payroll coordination across the UK, Germany and USA. The role will gather, validate and submit payroll information, work with external payroll providers and ADP, review payroll outputs, resolve queries and ensure payroll-related accounting and controls are completed accurately and on time

Key Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the payroll timetable, cut-off dates and submission process across the UK, Germany and USA.
• Issue payroll templates and instructions to stores and managers, and follow up outstanding or incomplete submissions.
• Collate and validate rotas, timesheets, variable hours, starters, leavers, salary changes, contracted-hours changes, bonuses, holiday information and other payroll inputs.
• Prepare UK, German and US payroll journals for posting into the relevant finance models and accounting records.
• Maintain payroll control accounts and supporting balance-sheet schedules.
• Reconcile gross-to-net payroll outputs, payroll payments and relevant deductions or control balances
• Prepare accurate, controlled gross-pay input files for submission to the relevant payroll provider or system.
• Review draft payroll outputs against approved inputs before final sign-off by the appropriate Finance approver.
• Coordinate payroll queries from employees, store managers and other internal stakeholders.
• Maintain clear records of payroll inputs, amendments, approvals and final outputs.
• Coordinate starter, leaver and contractual pay changes once appropriately authorised.
• Support holiday entitlement and holiday-pay calculations where required.
• Respond to payslip, My ePay Window and other employee payroll queries
• Coordinate and review staff expense submissions.

What We Are Looking For

The Payroll Specialist will be a meticulous individual with excellent attention to detail and experience of working within a fast-paced organisation.

Ideally you will be/have:

• Practical experience in a payroll role, with responsibility for preparing and checking payroll inputs and outputs.
• Strong working knowledge of UK payroll processes and common payroll changes, including starters, leavers, variable hours, salary changes, holiday pay and bonuses.
• Experience working with an external payroll bureau or managed payroll provider.
• High level of accuracy and confidence working with detailed employee, rota and pay information.
• Strong Excel skills, including confidence using lookups, SUMIFS, PivotTables and structured data checks.
• Ability to reconcile payroll outputs to source information and investigate discrepancies.
• Strong organisation and deadline management across recurring monthly and twice-monthly cycles
• Experience coordinating payroll across more than one country or legal entity would be beneficial but not essential.
• Experience of Sage50 would be beneficial but not essential.

What is On Offer

The Payroll Specialist will receive a competitive salary of £(phone number removed). In addition, you will joining a growing business with career opportunities and benefit from:

• 10% Annual Bonus
• 33 days annual leave
• Hybrid Work (2 days from home post probation (3 months))
• Flexible hours
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicle scheme
• Free parking
• Career progression in a growing business!