via reed · 1 June 2026 ·5 days ago

Payroll Assistant

Portfolio Payroll
London Full-time GBP 32,000 – 35,000
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Payroll Assistant | Competitive | Full-time | Permanent | London

A leading educational foundation is seeking an experienced Payroll assistant to join its established HR & Payroll function. This is a key role supporting the payroll team in delivery of accurate, compliant, and high-quality payroll services across multiple payrolls, while assisting the Payroll Manager and working across 2 monthly payrolls with 1000 staff.

This position offers the opportunity to work within a collaborative, professional environment where accuracy, integrity and strong stakeholder relationships are essential.

The Role

You will play a central part in ensuring the smooth running of monthly payrolls and benefits administration across the organisation. Working alongside the Payroll Manager, you be involved in processing multi-sited payrolls, while supporting wider payroll operations and statutory reporting.

Key Responsibilities include:

  • Supporting multiple Foundation payrolls, working closely with the Payroll Manager.

  • Responding to payroll and pension queries, providing clear guidance to employees and managers.

  • Supporting statutory submissions, including gender pay gap and ONS reporting.

  • Working in partnership with HR, ensuring data accuracy and seamless integration between HR and payroll systems.

About You

You will have at least 2-3 years' experience in Payroll Administration and possess strong technical knowledge within payroll, excellent excel skills, confidence processing manual calculations and excellent attention to detail.

Essential experience:

  • Very confident and technically proficient with Excel, Manual calculations, and reporting tools.

  • Proven strong experience in manual payroll data entry

  • Ability to manage deadlines, solve problems and communicate effectively across teams.

Desirable experience:
  • Exposure to salary sacrifice pension schemes.

  • Experience within multi-payroll or multi-entity environments.

  • Familiarity with systems such as Oasis, iTrent, or Business Objects.

Personal Attributes
  • High levels of integrity and discretion.

  • Calm, resilient and able to work under pressure.

  • Collaborative, approachable, and confident building strong internal relationships.

  • Detail-driven with excellent organisational skills.

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