Payroll Advisor

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Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.

About Us

Our teams are putting the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. We provide services to partner clients globally via our innovative advanced robotics technology, known as the Ocado Smart Platform ("OSP"), this drives our highly automated, multi-million pound Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs). In our CFCs - together with the proprietary software applications - we operate a world-class online grocery business that automates the single pick of products, ready for your online delivery.

About the role

This is a great opportunity to join our Payroll team at Ocado Group within Group Finance to support with the timely and accurate delivery of the UK Technology Solutions payroll. You will be someone who has good communication and collaboration skills, customer service focused and knowledge of large Payroll operations. You will work closely with People Teams, Finance teams (including Tax,  Group Accounting, Treasury, Commercial Finance), 3rd party payroll processors, HMRC, external and internal auditors and wider business stakeholders.

Accountabilities

• Ensuring adherence and compliance to information security and GDPR requirements
• Process and deliver an accurate end to end Payroll(s), to include third party payments, reports to business, supplementary payrolls, returns through to control account reconciliations
• Effectively manage enquiries from colleagues and business teams
• Audit pay data pre and post commitment of payroll and validate confirmed reports
• Perform daily payroll department operations, managing own workload.
• Manage your Salesforce cases within agreed SLA’s whilst providing first-class customer service to employees and other stakeholders.
• Ensuring adherence and compliance to information security and GDPR 

About you

• Experience of large payroll operations (c 1500 + employees)
• Experience of Payroll and HRIS applications
• Experience of customer service focused delivery
• Experience of UK payroll, benefits and related HMRC legislation
• Experience in process improvement
• Mind-set for continuous learning actively seeking and providing feedback
• Ability to build strong working relationships with your team and the wider business

What we offer you

Our employee benefits are designed for you, we care about people and we’ve ensured we have a wealth of benefits that focus on your well-being. We regularly review our benefits to ensure we are supporting our employees appropriately.
30 days ‘working from anywhere in the world’ policy 
Wellbeing support through dedicated apps and an Employee Assistance Programme 
25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after 5 years service (plus optional holiday purchase)
Pension scheme (various options available including employer contribution matching up to 7%)
Generous Private Medical Insurance (within the first month of joining!)
Income Protection (can be up to 50% of salary for 3 years) and Life Assurance (3 x annual salary) 
22 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid paternity leave (once relevant service requirements complete) 
Train Ticket loan (interest-free)
Cycle to Work Scheme
Free shuttle bus to and from Hatfield Train Station to the Hatfield offices 
Free shuttle bus to and from Welwyn Garden City Train Station to the Welwyn Garden City offices
Opportunity to participate in Sharesave and Buy as You Earn share schemes
15% discount on Ocado.com and free delivery for all employees (within the first month of joining!)