Indra

Payroll & Benefits Lead

Indra

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Market Deeping • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Payroll Operations & Governance - *Managing end-to-end payroll processing across all UK and Ireland entities, overseeing payroll inputs, ensuring compliance with HMRC, Revenue (Ireland), and internal audit controls.*
  • Benefits Administration & Optimisation - *Own the administration and communication of employee benefits programmes, coordinate with brokers, insurers, and benefit platforms, monitor and benchmark market competitiveness*
  • Stakeholder & Vendor Management - *Act as liaison with external payroll and benefits vendors, partner with Finance for payroll funding, reconciliation, and reporting accuracy and collaborate with Global Total Rewards and Compensation CoEs.*
  • Continuous Improvement & Projects - *drive improvements in payroll and benefits processes through automation, system enhancements, and policy updates, support M&A, integration, or divestment activity as needed and Lead or support implementation of new tools.*
  • Compliance, Taxation & Risk Management - **Stay abreast of employment tax legislation and pension regulations in both UK and Ireland, ensuring correct application of statutory sick pay, maternity/paternity, holiday pay, and benefit-in-kind taxation and leading risk mitigation activities around data security, payroll fraud, and GDPR in payroll systems.

Requirements

  • **What we are looking for:**
  • We are particularly interested in receiving your application if you have experience in any of the following areas:
  • - Minimum 5–7 years’ experience managing UK payroll and benefits operations (desirable – knowledge of Ireland payroll)
  • - Strong knowledge of UK employment tax and benefits legislation
  • - Experience with systems; Moorepay, Workday, ADP, SD Worx, SAP, or similar systems
  • - Proven experience managing external vendors and internal stakeholders
  • - Exposure to global or matrixed organisation structures preferred
  • - Payroll qualifications (e.g. CIPP, IPASS) desirable
  • - Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
  • - Strong numeracy and analytical capability
  • - Clear, confident communicator with strong stakeholder management
  • - Happy with adhoc travel to our other offices including Whiteley and London
  • **Security Clearance:**
  • Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) clearance is required and must be maintained for this role. Please note that in the event that BPSS clearance cannot be obtained, you may not be eligible for the role and/or any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security. Please see the link below for further details regarding the requirements for BPSS clearance:
  • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/united-kingdom-security-vetting-clearance-levels

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
payroll processingbenefits administrationcomplianceemployment tax legislationdata securitypayroll fraud preventionnumeracyanalytical capabilitysystem enhancementspolicy updates
Soft skills
attention to detailcommunicationstakeholder managementvendor managementcollaborationcontinuous improvementproject managementproblem-solvingadaptabilityinterpersonal skills
Certifications
CIPPIPASSBaseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)