Payroll Operations Specialist

The role involves supporting senior team members in managing UK and Crown Dependency payrolls, particularly leading the transition of Crown Dependency payroll to the EME team. Key responsibilities entail overseeing post-payroll activities, ensuring accurate payments to HMRC and vendors, and collaborating with the Control team for efficient monthly processes. The Payroll Specialist must possess extensive payroll administration experience, demonstrate accountability in decision-making, and successfully drive process changes. The position requires guiding a team, addressing payroll queries, ensuring compliance, and liaising with tax authorities. Candidates are expected to embody Barclays' core values and mindset. This is a 12-month full-time contract based in Northampton.

This role supports the senior team members in managing UK and Crown Dependency payrolls, leading the transition of Crown Dependency payroll to the EME team. Responsibilities include managing post-payroll activities, ensuring accurate and timely payments and submissions to HMRC and vendors, and collaborating with the Control team to complete monthly processes efficiently. Key tasks include overseeing monthly post-payroll activities, providing support and guidance, implementing operational governance, ensuring team readiness for change, driving development, and maintaining compliance with legislative and policy requirements. Collaboration with Continuous Improvement and Change Teams and contributing to projects are also essential.

To be successful as a Payroll Specialist, you must have experience with:

• Extensive experience of payroll administration and support, with experience at expertise level.
• Decision making that takes accountability of policy, legislation, operational performance and the wider team deliverables.
• Proven and demonstrable success at driving process and procedural change initiatives– from conception, design to implementation.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

12 Months Full Time Contract – Northampton
To manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, and any other deductions, as well as maintaining accurate payroll records for the business. 

Processing of payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees, calculating tax and other contributions, withholding, and paying out as appropriate.
Employee payroll record administration and troubleshooting.
Guidance and support to employees on all payroll matters, including queries related to calculations of salaries and wages, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
Payroll statutory reporting and filing including liaison with relevant local tax authorities.

They lead and supervise a team, guiding and supporting professional development, allocating work requirements and coordinating team resources.
Escalate breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
Take responsibility for embedding new policies/ procedures adopted due to risk mitigation.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work you own or contribute to. Make evaluative judgements based on the analysis of factual information, paying attention to detail.
Act as contact point for stakeholders outside of the immediate function, while building a network of contacts outside team and external to the organisation.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.