Human Resources & Payroll Coordinator – Fixed Term

GLORY

HR & Payroll Co-ordinator managing payroll and HR services for Glory's UK team across EMEA. Responsible for auditing, recruitment, and employee lifecycle administration.

Posted 7/8/2026contract🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage monthly international payrolls as the payroll subject matter expert.
Working collaboratively with our HR & Payroll Administrator to audit and ensure accurate processing of UK payroll
Support the HR & Payroll Administrator with end-to-end employee life cycle administration, including contractual changes, sickness absence, onboarding, offboarding, probation management, and related payroll inputs.
Provide cover for HR & Payroll administrator during absences
Conduct audits of HR database records, payroll and benefits processes to ensure accuracy and compliance.
Responsible for the end year/monthly statutory reporting to external and internal auditors as requested
Supporting Expatriates whilst on assignment, including payroll arrangements and Visas, which includes liaising with third parties
Active role in recruitment, interviews, completion of job descriptions
Supporting managers with non-complex employee relations matters by providing effective guidance to ensure fair, consistent practices, for example flexible working, probation and investigation meetings.
Dealing with ad-hoc HR queries from employees and Managers, which can include payroll and benefit questions.
Co-ordination of the UK salary review and annual bonus process
Working with wider HR community to support the delivery of strategic and tactical HR objectives and/or projects
Pro-actively look for continuous improvement opportunities in processes, systems and ways of working.
Support employee development using different HR initiatives.
Provide HR support for our Poland, Italy and Turkey businesses.
Support Senior HR Advisor with policy reviews to ensure they reflect current legislation and best practice.
Manage the HR employee recognition programme, collaborating with key stakeholders to facilitate quarterly awards
Maintain and regularly update the Total Reward platform, ensuring content remains accurate and up to date.
Support and contribute to HR projects and workload in line with business objectives when required.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A-Level qualified or equivalent
CIPD Level 5
Prior experience in an administrative role
Experience in processing payrolls
Driving license for occasional travel
Excellent communicator – both written and verbally
Strong IT skills - Excel, Word and Outlook - experience of using HR and payroll systems would be beneficial.
Team player and relationship builder
The ability to use initiative and prioritise workload is essential
Highly organised
Flexible and adaptable
Meticulous and accurate with a high level of attention to detail
The ability to stay calm under pressure
Have good commercial awareness
Respect the importance of confidentiality, as you will be dealing with employees' personal details
Be confident about gathering facts and statistics and making financial calculations for planning and other uses
Driving high standards of data accuracy
Challenging the status quo
Driving efficiency & innovation

Benefits

Comp & perks

- 25 days' holiday a year plus bank holidays with the opportunity to buy up to five additional days
- Annual bonus scheme
- Competitive company pension scheme
- Ongoing training and development
- Private medical insurance for all employees (enhanced membership can be purchased for other family members)
- Dental insurance for all employees
- Life assurance
- Income protection scheme
- Employee assistance programme
- Employee Wellbeing events and Mental Health First Aiders
- Employee My Benefits portal offering retail discounts
- Free office parking

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Hard Skills & Tools

Payroll ProcessingHR AdministrationStatutory ReportingData AuditingFinancial Calculations

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationTeam PlayerHighly OrganisedFlexible and AdaptableAttention to Detail

Certifications

CIPD Level 5A-Level Qualified