Payroll Officer

Location Devizes
Discipline: Accounting & Finance
Job type: Permanent
Salary: £33000.0
Contact name: Tom Ralph

Contact email: tom.ralph@wh-employment.co.uk
Job ref: 6854
Published: about 11 hours ago

We are seeking a part time Payroll Officer to manage the end-to-end processing of a large, complex in-house monthly payroll. This is a key role requiring exceptional accuracy, discretion, and the confidence to work to tight deadlines in a professional environment.

This role will be around 20-25 hours, worked across 3-5 days.

Key Responsibilities

  • End-to-end processing of monthly payroll, ensuring accuracy and timely payments

  • Maintaining payroll systems and posting monthly journals to the nominal ledger

  • Processing starters, leavers, contractual changes, absence, term-time adjustments, pay awards, student loans, and tax code updates

  • Preparing BACS submissions, payslips, P45s and P60s

  • Submitting statutory returns to HMRC, pension providers, and other external bodies, including P11Ds and PSA submissions

  • Administering staff benefits and pension schemes, ensuring auto-enrolment compliance

  • Responding promptly to payroll, pension, and benefits queries from staff and external authorities

  • Producing payroll reports, reconciliations, and data to support budgeting, forecasting, and statutory reporting

  • Supporting the implementation of a new HR and payroll system and driving process improvements

Essential Criteria

  • Proven experience running a large, complex in-house payroll end to end

  • Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, HMRC regulations, and employment law

  • High level of accuracy, attention to detail, and numeracy

  • Excellent IT skills, particularly Excel, and experience with payroll systems

  • Ability to handle confidential information with discretion

  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work under pressure to deadlines

    If you're keen to find out more, please apply and we will be in contact.