Payroll Analyst

Payroll Analyst – £45,000 – £55,000 + Bonus – City of London

Frazer Jones are delighted to be supporting a leading name within financial services on the recruitment of a Payroll Analyst to join the team on a permanent basis.

Our client is requiring you to be in the office 3 days per week (2 from home)

The Role:

• Provide full payroll support for all employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, offboarding, internal transfers, and various parental leaves to ensure smooth monthly payroll operations.
• Share knowledge to support a high-performing, successful payroll team.
• Demonstrate role model behavior by sharing knowledge and best practices.
• Be responsible for payroll end-to-end processes, including payroll and accounting activities.
• Ensure correct and accurate payroll accounting treatment across all payrolls.
• Identify opportunities to align and streamline processes to support the integration of HR teams, Shared Services team, and the wider HR function.
• Maintain documents and process maps to ensure alignment with HR policies and local legislation.
• Drive and support change initiatives.
• Constantly seek process improvements and identify control deficiencies.
• Support various internal and external audits.
• Demonstrate risk awareness within the local and wider HR team.
• Demonstrate awareness of how payroll connects with other areas of the HR team and the broader business.
• Adopt a client-centric approach to decision-making, using operational knowledge to support effective outcomes.
• Demonstrate understanding of payroll policies and procedures, applying this knowledge daily.
• Understand payroll data and the frequency of payroll integrations between ADP, Workday, and Darwin.
• Be responsible for post-payroll accounting activities, including processing general ledger files and internal account movements.
• Work with the Global Mobility Team to provide payroll support for all payroll-related processes, ensuring timely and accurate monthly expatriate payroll processing.
• Respond to inquiries and requests from employees and HR colleagues via various payroll contact channels (phone, email, face-to-face, post, Workday case management), including providing payslips and tax documentation.
• Assist the payroll team with managing the payroll shared mailbox, ensuring timely and high-quality responses.
• Collaborate closely with the HR Shared Services team and Global Mobility teams to coordinate the timely processing of payroll changes.
• Work closely with the benefits team to reconcile monthly benefits against payroll.
• Oversee payroll, payment, and reconciliation of the company’s pension scheme.

Skills & experience needed:

• ADP system knowledge
• Workday knowledge (added bonus)
• Strong excel skills
• Strong UK payroll knowledge.

The SR Group (UK) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.