Payroll Executive

We are recruiting for a Payroll Executive to join the Payroll Head Office team! 

·       Job Title – Payroll Executive

·       Location – BL9 8RR

·       Working rota – Mon-Fri

·       Working hours – 40h a week

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Payroll Executive, you'll be doing the following: 

• Overseeing the completion of payrolls that are part of a payroll service for 30,000 colleagues over 32 payrolls, including 5 Offshore payrolls, over lunar and monthly payrolls.
• You will be responsible for investigating and resolving complex queries from our colleagues across the business.
• Supporting and training team members on payroll processes, and colleague queries.
• Ensuring that payroll is processed right first time and in the right way, in line with internal policies and legislative requirements.
• Measure the success of the team, looking for ways to continuously improve our processes and accuracy and, with the support of management, putting these changes into place.
• Supporting key stakeholders and departments across the business and cascading data and reports as required.

What We're Looking For:

• Previous experience of working with complex and high-volume payrolls
• A good to excellent understanding of tax and NI rules and able to calculate advances, arrears and additional payment values.
• Awareness of the administration of HMRC remittances, court orders, and employee benefits like pensions and healthcare
• A desire to learn and continuously improve.
• A keen eye for detail and accuracy
• Being able to keep our colleagues at the centre of all you do.
• Able to organise your time to meet key deadlines both by yourself and as part of the team.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to break down pay queries to make it understandable for our colleagues and your team members.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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