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Job Post Details

Senior Payroll Specialist - job post

Anglian Water Services Ltd
3.5 out of 5 stars
Huntingdon•Hybrid work
Up to £45,000 a year - Full-time, Fixed term contract
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Job details

Pay

  • Up to £45,000 a year

Job type

  • Fixed term contract
  • Full-time

Location

Huntingdon•Hybrid work

Benefits

Pulled from the full job description

  • Company pension
  • Private medical insurance

Full job description

Senior Payroll Advisor
Salary: Circa £45,000 based on skills and experience

Benefits: Private healthcare, virtual GP service for you and your household, double-matched pension (up to 21% combined)

Location: Hybrid working: This role is primarily home-based, with 4 days working from home and 1 day per week in our Huntingdon office.
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 18 months
Hours: Full-time (Flexibility for part-time)

Join Our Team

We're looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Advisor to join Anglian Water's People Services team. This is an exciting opportunity to take a leading role in delivering an accurate, compliant and customer-focused payroll service for approximately 6,750 employees.

As a subject matter expert, you'll support the Payroll Manager, provide guidance to colleagues, resolve complex payroll queries and drive continuous improvement across payroll processes. Working closely with HR, Finance and external providers, you'll use SAP and Workday to ensure an excellent service is delivered to employees across the business.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Processing and overseeing monthly payroll activities, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
  • Acting as the escalation point for complex payroll queries and employee cases.
  • Maintaining employee records in SAP and Workday.
  • Managing statutory payments, deductions, pensions, salary sacrifice schemes and payroll benefits.
  • Supporting complex payroll activities including redundancy payments, TUPE transfers and family leave pay.
  • Completing payroll reconciliations, journals, audits and month-end reporting.
  • Ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations, pension legislation and employment law.
  • Producing statutory submissions including RTI, P60s, P11Ds and ONS reporting.
  • Working closely with Finance, Employee Relations and external providers to resolve issues and improve processes.
  • Supporting Payroll Advisors while leading continuous improvement initiatives and payroll projects.

What We're Looking For

  • Significant payroll experience within a complex organisation.
  • Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, HMRC requirements and pension administration.
  • Experience processing high-volume payrolls from end to end.
  • Strong systems experience, ideally SAP and/or Workday.
  • Excellent attention to detail, analytical skills and problem-solving ability.
  • Confident communicator with the ability to build relationships across teams.
  • CIPP qualification or equivalent experience would be advantageous.

Why Anglian Water?

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.

Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge. We are also signatories of Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers, are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and play a leading role in the Women's Utility Network.

Ready to make a difference? We'd love to hear from you.

If you're passionate about payroll, enjoy solving complex challenges and want to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Ready to make a difference?

Closing date: Monday 31st August
Interviews: September - Dates TBC

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