Job Type: Fixed Term Contract until December 2024

Salary: Competitive plus 8% bonus up to 16%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Location: Open to any of our UK Offices – hybrid working fully supported, albeit spending time building relationships with the predominantly Edinburgh based team will be expected on occasion

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. 

Job Contact: Tim Singh

Closing Date: 2nd October 2023

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Payroll Consultant to join our Payroll team on a fixed term contract until December 2024.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,800 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer our 12 million customers products across our market-leading brands, including Standard Life, SunLife and ReAssure, with c.£259 billion of assets under administration. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

We’re currently recruiting for a Payroll Consultant within HR People Operations to provide technical & business knowledge to take responsibility to deliver the payrolls on a monthly cycle on behalf of the business.

Reporting to the payroll manager, this role will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of the monthly payroll cycle for all payrolls to support the overall delivery of an excellent People Operations function.

If successful, you’ll join a small busy team of professionals to deliver multiple accurate payrolls and benefits across the organisation:

• Work with the outsourced provider of choice to deliver the payroll and continuously improve current processes and ways of working 
• Effective stakeholder relationships  are key to the success of the payroll function within the organisation so you will be required to build relationships within the team, the wider HR function, with CoSec and with Finance.
• Governance and accuracy are essential to the efficient operation of the service so you will have a track record of attention to detail and deployment of your technical skill and  knowledge
• Experience of dealing with  flexible benefits, pensions and share plans is critical
• Your customer service mindset - the customer is central to everything we do so ensuing our colleagues have a great experience of payroll is something we look for. 

This as a real opportunity to join the organisation and bring your skills and creativity to the organisation to show how this sets you apart from others within your field.    

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the monthly completion of operational process checks, complex upload and interface routines and reconciliations of payroll to ensure completeness and accuracy of payroll and benefits calculations and processing.
• To carry out support system testing for incident resolution / developments / upgrades etc to ensure new legislation, payroll functionality and new benefits are implemented correctly. This involves identifying test scenarios, preparing test scripts and executing testing with minimal guidance
• Accountable for the completion of the payroll cycle for all payrolls including processing, payroll commit processes, reporting, controls, analysis, interfaces and BACS transmission to ensure the monthly payroll timetable is delivered
• Create and implement relevant process control measures to ensure compliance with reporting standards
• Become the subject matter expert to input into the continuous improvement of the payroll service in order to maximise the value added by this area 
• Provide specialist advice and guidance in respect of payroll processing and working alongside a chosen supplier to deliver the payrolls across the Phoenix Group, providing specific knowledge and guidance within this area.  
• Ensuring all processes are followed and updated as and when required to maintain legal compliance with all aspects of payroll operations.

What are we looking for?

• A Payroll Diploma and/or an Accountancy Qualification is desired or relevant experience operating at this level
• Previous in depth up to date experience of working in a complex payroll environment with knowledge of payroll systems and processes to understand the requirements to deliver
• An ability to analyse and report on complex data
• Strong customer focus, with experience of working in a Customer centric environment.
• Focus on process, detail and quality
• Strong PC Skills (working knowledge of Microsoft Office suite essential). 
• Strong time management and organisational skills including ability to prioritise and ability to work to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written

We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. 

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. 

Find out more about #LifeAtPhoenix 

• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
• Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us 

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