Every pay day matters - and this role is at the heart of creating a positive, reliable experience for our people.
As our UK Payroll Specialist, you will be a valued part of the team, helping to deliver a smooth, accurate, and trusted payroll experience for around 1,900 UK employees. With support from your colleagues, you will manage the end-to-end monthly payroll cycle, ensuring every pay run is completed on time, accurately, and in line with UK statutory requirements. You will be a trusted and approachable point of contact for employees and stakeholders, supporting payroll, pension, tax, and related queries while helping us strengthen controls, improve processes, and continue delivering a high-quality payroll service.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the monthly payroll lifecycle: Manage and support the full payroll cycles for approximately 1900 UK employees overall, ensuring accurate and timely monthly processing.
- Prepare and validate payroll inputs: Collect, review, and validate payroll data, including new starters, leavers, salary changes, contractual updates, statutory payments, tax code updates, pension changes, and other monthly amendments.
- Process end-to-end payroll: Coordinate payroll calculations, detailed data checks, reconciliations, and statutory payments using internal systems, including SAP SuccessFactors and the payroll solution ADP GlobalView.
- Process international mobility payroll activities: Collect, review and validate payroll input for employees inbound of long term assignments, short term assignment and regular business visitors (shadow payroll), with day-today co-ordination with HR and external tax advisors.
- Complete statutory and compliance checks: Ensure accurate payroll treatment and compliance with PAYE, National Insurance, National Minimum Wage, PSA Agreements, pensions, benefits, statutory returns, year-end processes, and HMRC requirements, including monitoring submissions and supporting reviews or audits.
- Administer pensions and benefits: Understand auto-enrolment, pension contributions, salary sacrifice, benefit-related payroll processes, and day-to-day coordination with pension providers and external advisors.
- Review, reconcile, and report: Prepare payroll reports, journals, reconciliations, variance analysis, cut-off governance, and post-payroll reviews in collaboration with Finance.
- Resolve payroll queries: Respond promptly and professionally to employee queries relating to pay, deductions, pensions, tax codes, benefits, and other payroll matters.
- Collaborate across teams and providers: Work closely with HR, Finance, external providers, and advisors to ensure payroll data is accurate, deadlines are met, and changes are processed smoothly.
- Support transformation and continuous improvement: Contribute to payroll transformation, system improvements, compliance initiatives, PSA, P11D or Payrolling Benefits activity, shadow payrolls, process improvements, and onboarding of new UK entities.
- Maintain strong controls and governance: Follow agreed payroll procedures, strengthen payroll controls, identify opportunities to improve processes, and maintain a strong focus on accuracy, confidentiality, compliance, and service delivery.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Experience: Proven UK payroll expertise, ideally with 10+ years' hands-on payroll experience, or a combination of payroll and broader industry experience. Experience supporting end-to-end payroll processing is essential.
- Technical knowledge: Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation, HMRC guidance, PAYE, National Insurance, National Minimum Wage, PSA, Payrolling, pensions, benefits, statutory returns, statutory payments, year-end payroll processes, and payroll compliance activities.
- Systems and tools: Hands-on knowledge of SAP payroll processing is required; experience with ADP Payroll using GlobalView is preferred. Intermediate to advanced Excel skills and confident use of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Teams, and other payroll or HR systems are expected.
- Controls and compliance: Experience supporting payroll reconciliations, controls, governance frameworks, HMRC reviews, audits, and compliance risk management.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills: Strong analytical capability, high attention to detail, financial awareness, and sound problem-solving skills when managing payroll accuracy, controls, and compliance risks.
- Communication and collaboration: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across HR, Finance, external providers, and advisors while providing a helpful, confidential, and professional service.
- Leadership and judgement: A hands-on problem solver who leads by example, understands the wider payroll landscape, supports and coaches others, and uses sound judgement on when to escalate.
- Ways of working: Highly organised, resilient, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities, work to tight deadlines, remain calm under pressure, and deliver with minimal supervision.
- Professional standards: High levels of integrity, professionalism, accountability, confidentiality, and commitment to company values, procedures, service delivery, and customer expectations.
- Qualifications: CIPP qualification preferred, or equivalent knowledge gained through relevant payroll experience.
- Education: Bachelor's degree, preferably within Business Studies/Accounting/Human Resources or relevant experience within required area.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
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Primary country and city: United Kingdom (GB) || Reading
Req ID: 790983
Skills Required
- Proven UK payroll expertise with ideally 10+ years of hands-on payroll experience, or equivalent payroll and broader industry experience.
- End-to-end payroll processing experience.
- Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation, HMRC guidance, PAYE, National Insurance, National Minimum Wage, PSA, payrolling, pensions, benefits, statutory returns, statutory payments, year-end processes, and payroll compliance.
- Hands-on SAP payroll processing knowledge.
- Experience with ADP Payroll using GlobalView.
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills and confident use of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Teams, and payroll or HR systems.
- Experience supporting payroll reconciliations, controls, governance frameworks, HMRC reviews, audits, and compliance risk management.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, financial awareness, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across HR, Finance, external providers, and advisors.
- Ability to support and coach others, lead by example, and exercise sound judgment.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet tight deadlines, work independently, and remain calm under pressure.
- High integrity, professionalism, accountability, confidentiality, and commitment to service delivery.
- CIPP qualification or equivalent knowledge gained through relevant payroll experience.
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Business Studies, Accounting, Human Resources, or a related field, or relevant experience.
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