Payroll Executive

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Glasgow, City of Glasgow, Scotland, GBR
In-Office
Junior
HR Tech
The Role
Process and manage UK customer payrolls accurately and on time, including data validation, corrections, tax year-end processing, statutory compliance, reporting, and customer query resolution. The role requires maintaining payroll procedures, identifying risks, supporting root-cause analysis, advising customers and colleagues, and meeting service-level deadlines while contributing to team performance and personal development.
Summary Generated by Built In

SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with global reach. We have offices in Europe and Mauritius.

Our goal? We bring people solutions to life and turn HR into a value source for our clients and their people. Our people solutions span the entire employee journey, from salary payment to attracting, rewarding, and developing talent.

Are you ready to join us?

About the role

As a Payroll Executive, you will provide an effective and efficient Payroll service to SD Worx customers across the UK under the governance of SD Worx’s Quality Management System.

What do we have to offer?

• A dynamic environment: flexible working hours and working from home
• 25 days holiday + 8 days public holiday
• Flexible benefits scheme (including ability to buy additional 5 days holiday)
• Pension up to 6% matched
• Workation: possibility to work from any SD Worx location (4 weeks per year, EU only)
• Referral program
• Learning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training
• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field or want to expand your knowledge more horizontally, there is always room to grow within SD Worx!

Which tasks can you expect?

• Effectively plan and manage own workload, managing, servicing, and delivering customer payrolls to agreed deadlines.
• Participate in team huddles to ensure risks and issues are highlighted and followed through to closure.
• Identify opportunities to advise and assist other team members, including cover for other team members as and when required.
• Validate and input all data received to agreed SLAs.
• Check input data and make all relevant corrections before the live run.
• Handle routine, non-routine and complex customer queries regarding payroll and HR related issues, including liaising with both internal and external contacts.
• Manage all aspects of Tax Year end processing for customers.
• Communicate effectively to customers (internal & external).
• Manage and support the customer in the processing of their payrolls to ensure payments/reports to employees are made accurately and on time.
• Provision and delivery of their performance statistics, including root cause to the Team Manager to meet reporting requirements.
• Support the Team Manager in creating the RCA documentation.
• Recognise and promote opportunities for Added Value Services.
• Compliance with statutory regulations and provide guidance to customer and colleagues.
• Demonstrate good knowledge of legislation and products.
• Maintain Standard Operating Processes and update with changes.
• Take responsibility for own personal development plan in line with Company objectives and values.

What do you have to offer?

• Minimum 2 years payroll experience, ideally in a bureau environment
• Attention to detail with the ability to analyse data
• Demonstrable customer service skills via telephone, and other forms of communication
• Demonstrable knowledge of PC literacy and software usage ideally including Word and Excel
• High level knowledge of payroll legislation, including Tax, NI, SSP and SMP
• Time and workload management
• Demonstrate the ability to identify risks, issues and problems proactively and timely
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Experience within a customer service environment

Salary range information will be shared with candidates during the initial interaction with the Talent Acquisition team, either by phone or email.

From many places, we work as one, moving from better to best together.

SD Worx embraces diversity in the workplace. Diversity brings inspiration and innovation to our company. We particularly welcome applications from qualified talent, regardless of origin, nationality, gender, skin color, ethnic and social background, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, or stage of life.

Skills Required

  • Minimum 2 years of payroll experience, ideally in a bureau environment
  • Attention to detail and ability to analyse data
  • Demonstrable customer service skills via telephone and other communication channels
  • PC literacy and software usage, ideally including Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
  • High-level knowledge of payroll legislation, including Tax, National Insurance, Statutory Sick Pay, and Statutory Maternity Pay
  • Time and workload management skills
  • Ability to proactively and promptly identify risks, issues, and problems
  • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Experience in a customer service environment

SD Worx Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SD Worx and has not been reviewed or approved by SD Worx.

  • Flexible Benefits — Benefits are frequently positioned as flexible and customizable, including cafeteria-style options and country-specific choices. This tailoring (e.g., mobility, extra insurance, or additional leave) is presented as a way to align rewards to individual needs.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off options appear broad in several markets, with multiple leave types from day one and, in some countries, generous holiday allowances or the ability to trade for extra days. These provisions are often linked to strong work–life balance and flexibility.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle offerings include workation policies, wellness schemes, vouchers and discounts, and Employee Assistance Programs. Hybrid work practices and allowances further round out the day‑to‑day experience.

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HQ: Antwerpen
3,403 Employees
Year Founded: 1945

What We Do

We spark success at the heart of your business so you and your people can thrive. About SD Worx In today’s new world of fluid work, people want to be inspired by what they do and have the freedom to focus on what matters. Organisations need a dynamic, motivated workforce empowered by smart technology. As a leading European provider of integrated HR solutions, SD Worx turns HR into a source of value for their customers’ business and the people that work for them. SD Worx delivers HR solutions across the entire employee lifecycle, from paying employees to attracting, employing, rewarding and developing the talent who make businesses succeed. SD Worx powers performance through four core capabilities: software, outsourcing, consultancy and data-driven insights. SD Worx is the trusted leading European provider of end-to-end HR solutions for all organisations and workers. About 90,000 small and large organisations across Europe place their trust in the company and its +75 years' worth of experience. SD Worx calculates the salaries of approximately 5.7 million employees and ranks among the top five worldwide. The more than 7,500 employees operate in Belgium (HQ), Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. SD Worx achieved a consolidated revenue of EUR 1.058 billion in 2023.  More info on www.sdworx.com

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