Job Description Lockton is the world's largest privately held independent insurance brokerage. At Lockton, we are all about unlocking potential—your potential, our clients' potential, and ultimately our potential to deliver world-class service. If you're passionate about making a real impact and thriving in a culture where you truly belong, join us to make a difference. This is an excellent opportunity to join Lockton’s People Team in a newly created role. As Senior Payroll Advisor you will oversee the day to day running of key aspects of the payroll function. Supporting the Senior Payroll and Benefits Manager and working with key stakeholders* you will - Work with 2 senior payroll Advisors to manage: - The accurate and timely end to end processing of 3 UK payrolls. - BAU benefit activity for a headcount circa 2,400. - Review UK payroll processes & implement improvements. - Act as back up to Senior Manager - Benefit provider management. - Audit activity. - Act a back up to for overseas payroll BAU processing and approvals. - Work closely with colleagues to harmonise payroll processes and documentation across Europe. - Maintain and develop payroll statistics - Manage invoice processing * HRBPs & Admins, HR ops team, Finance, People Solutions, Reward Team Key responsibilities: - Acting as a senior member of the Payroll Advisor team, providing advice and guidance where needed to Payroll, HR & Finance stakeholders. - Monitoring workflows ensuring that the team are focused and on target to close the payroll within the given timetable. - Monitoring the Payroll email inbox ensuring queries are responded to in a timely manner. - Exception reporting and auditing payroll data to ensure audit compliance. - Managing & performing day-to-day processing of the UK payrolls including input, reconciliation and report running. Key Skills: Essential - Able to take the lead and comfortable with assigning tasks and requesting updates for team members. - Organised and focused on helping the team provide a consistent level of output and accuracy. - Experience of payroll processing, data entry through to reconciliation and reporting. - Attention to detail. - Ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines. - Focus on customer service. - Superb organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise effectively. Pre-requisites: - Experienced in-house Payroller having worked in a busy payroll environment. - Had experience of overseeing other team members and ensuring work delivery. - Role is hybrid based and the individual must be prepared to attend the office 3 days per week. - Some payroll system functions need to run out of hours, the individual must be prepared to run reports and updates prior to 8am/after 6pm (these can be done on working from home days and take minutes to run but must be done when all users are out of the system). Other information: - Current Team Size: 1 x Senior Payroll Manager, 2 x Senior Payroll Advisors - Payroll System: Zellis Resource Link, outsourced providers - 1 x PAYE payroll circa 2,200, 2 x LLP (non-PAYE payrolls), Ireland, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Malta payrolls via local bureau.
Job Title
Senior Payroll Advisor