Payroll Specialist

Do you have experience in high volume and complex payroll?

If so, we have an exciting opportunity here at EDF for a Payroll Specialist to join our team!
 

The Opportunity…

We’re seeking a Payroll Specialist to manage EDF’s payroll services, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payments for approximately 13,000 employees each month. As part of the Employee Services team, you’ll ensure payroll processes align with HMRC and legislative requirements, business policies, and collective agreements.

This role focuses on driving continuous improvements in processes and systems, maintaining robust validation controls, and ensuring audit and HMRC compliance.

Join us in delivering high-quality HR and payroll support to the business!

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a salary starting from £32,320, potential to earn 5% bonus, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We’re talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone’s welcome. We’re on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. The team usually meet up at the office in Hove once a month, the rest of the time you can work remotely or go into the office as you wish.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we support you to pursue a career that’s unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you’ll be doing

Being a Payroll Specialist at EDF involves ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing for all our employees, including running and reconciling monthly payrolls, identifying and resolving any errors.

You will provide expert payroll advice to support business needs, ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations, legislative requirements, and company policies.

Responsibilities include processing employee changes such as new starters, leavers, job changes, and ad hoc payments, while validating self service updates through our HR system. You will calculate statutory payments accurately, manage annual bonus and pay review activities, and produce essential documents such as P60s and P11Ds, offering employee support as needed.

The position oversees pension deductions, including auto-enrolment processes and third-party reconciliations, while administering flex benefits. You will support annual audits by providing evidence and addressing any issues, lead user acceptance testing for system updates and upgrades, and act as a point of escalation for complex payroll queries.

Who you are

We’re looking for the following skills/experience:

• Comprehensive knowledge of payroll issues, techniques, and statutory requirements
• Experience managing high-volume, complex payroll
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to engage effectively with employees, teams, and senior managers
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Skilled in relationship management, influence and diplomacy, with high integrity
• Analytical mindset to identify issues and improve team performance and processes
• Ability to plan and guide team workloads to meet deadlines and objectives

Closing date for applications: 26th January 2025
Location: Hove/Home working

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