Senior Payroll Specialist

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Senior Payroll Specialist

Edinburgh or Glasgow
Circa £60,000

Search are partnered with a leading professional services firm, with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow, to appoint a Senior Payroll Specialist.
This newly created position offers the opportunity to take full ownership of payroll and benefits operations for approximately 800 employees; ensuring accuracy, compliance, and an excellent colleague experience. Sitting within a collaborative People Engagement team, this role will also play a pivotal part in shaping reward strategy, driving process improvements, and delivering key people projects.

What's in it for you

  • Hybrid working - flexibility to split your time between home and office
  • Competitive pension scheme
  • Life assurance, income protection, and critical illness cover
  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • Length of service awards and enhanced holidays and pension with tenure
  • Exclusive retail discounts and access to a comprehensive wellbeing platform

Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee monthly payroll, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
  • Manage benefits administration.
  • Support annual reward cycles, including salary reviews and bonus calculations.
  • Lead and contribute to reward-related projects such as gender pay reporting and HRIS integration.
  • Collaborate with HR and Finance stakeholders to streamline processes and drive continuous improvement.

About You

The ideal candidate is a senior payroll professional with strong technical expertise and good knowledge of benefit and reward. They'll combine operational excellence with the confidence to influence and engage senior stakeholders.

You'll bring

  • Extensive in-house or bureau payroll experience (Cintra experience advantageous).
  • Proven knowledge of benefits administration and reward processes.
  • Advanced Excel and analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insight.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
  • Experience within professional services or a similarly complex, fast-paced environment.

To find out more or apply, please contact eilidh.smith@search.co.uk.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.

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Location:
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Salary:
£80,000 - £100,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Human Resources

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