Payroll Officer Part-time (Remote)

Overview

The organization is hiring a Payroll Officer to join the People Solutions team. Remote working is available.

This is a 6 Month Fixed Term Contract, working 9 hours a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 3 hours per day). The role involves owning and delivering an end-to-end outsourced payroll service for a portfolio of SME clients, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and on-time delivery.

The closing date for applications is 9 November 2026. Salary is competitive and dependent on experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end processing of multiple client payrolls, ensuring accuracy and compliance with agreed deadlines.
• Set up new client payrolls, including employee records, pay elements, pensions, tax settings, and payroll calendars.
• Process starters, leavers, salary changes, overtime, commissions, statutory payments, deductions, expenses, and other payroll adjustments.
• Complete RTI submissions, manage HMRC notices, reconcile payroll liabilities, and deliver year-end activities including P60s and associated reporting.
• Administer workplace pensions and auto-enrolment schemes, including enrolment assessments, submissions, reconciliations, and compliance requirements.
• Act as the primary payroll contact for a portfolio of SME clients, providing expert advice and support on payroll-related matters.
• Support payroll implementations, transitions, migrations, audits, health checks, and payroll improvement projects.
• Identify opportunities to enhance payroll services and support wider HR and business service offerings.
• Maintain high standards of payroll compliance, data security, audit trails, and quality assurance processes.
• Work collaboratively with internal HR, Finance, Recruitment, and IT teams to support client requirements and service excellence.

Requirements

• Significant experience in UK payroll processing, ideally within an outsourced payroll bureau, payroll provider, accountancy practice, or managed services environment.
• Proven experience processing payrolls from start to finish while managing multiple clients and competing deadlines.
• Strong technical knowledge of PAYE, National Insurance, RTI, statutory payments, workplace pensions, auto-enrolment, and payroll legislation.
• Experience setting up and implementing new payrolls, including pension scheme administration and payroll migrations.
• Strong payroll reconciliation, problem-solving, and analytical skills with keen attention to detail.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills, with the ability to explain technical payroll matters clearly and professionally.
• Strong organisational skills to manage multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.
• Commercial awareness and confidence supporting client discussions, proposals, and service development opportunities.

Preferred Qualifications

• CIPP qualification or equivalent (advantage).
• Experience delivering payroll audits, health checks, implementations, or system migrations (beneficial).
• Experience with Sage 50 or Brain payroll (advantage).

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary (dependent on experience).

Location & Work Pattern

• Remote
• 9 hours a week: Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 3 hours a day

Contract Type & Important Dates

• 6 Month Fixed Term Contract
• Closing date: 9 November 2026

Safeguarding & Compliance (Additional Information)

• The organization is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.
• Depending on the role applied for, you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check.
• Equal opportunities: the organization is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.