Payroll Administrator

The Opportunity

Are you an experienced Payroll Administrator with a passion for delivering excellence? Would you like to contribute to the continued success of the world’s largest family-owned whisky distillery, renowned for iconic brands like Glenfiddich, The Balvenie, Hendrick’s Gin, and Reyka Vodka? If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you!

William Grant & Sons are looking for a Payroll Administrator to join our small team based in our Cumbernauld office. This is a key role in our organisation, where you will join a dynamic team dedicated to providing effective end- to-end payroll.

What you will be doing

• Working as part of the in-house payroll team, processing end to end payroll for circa 2700 employees across 7 monthly UK payrolls.
• Assisting the payroll team leader with any other payroll related tasks and providing absence cover for the Overseas payrolls liaising with our outsourced service providers.
• Working with both internal and external stakeholders and various internal and external data sources to gather data and process accurately, adhering to statutory and internal deadlines.
• Preparing payroll reports and analysing data as well as posting to the finance system and reconciling payroll GL accounts.
• The successful candidate will be able to work in a fast-paced environment and be able to suggest ways of improving our internal processes.

About You

• You will be an enthusiastic experienced payroller with good knowledge of processing UK payroll including statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay.
• You will also be able to perform manual tax and national insurance calculations and submit RTI returns.
• You will have a working knowledge of pensions administration and salary sacrifice.
• You will be able to deal with queries from all parts of the business delivering excellent customer service but adhering to GDPR protocols regarding sensitive information.
• You will be well organised and able to deal with processing to tight deadlines and be willing to help other team members as required. There is a high level of manual data input and accuracy is very important.
• Good communication skills are required to ensure that the team deliver payroll accurately and any knowledge is shared within the team to drive service quality improvements.
• A formal payroll qualification is desirable but not essential. However, sound payroll end to end ability is required.
• You will have good excel skills including lookups to produce payroll reports and analysis.
• A good standard of literacy is essential to respond to payroll queries and review and update payroll process documents.
• Experience of Republic of Ireland payroll would be useful but not essential.

What can we offer you?

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.