Payroll Implementation Analyst – SAMpeople

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Perform detailed reconciliations of historical year-to-date figures, encompassing gross pay, net pay, PAYE, National Insurance, TPS, LGPS, and statutory deductions.

• Strategically plan, execute, and assess parallel payroll runs for schools and Multi-Academy Trusts.

• Analyze new system outputs against legacy payroll data and address any discrepancies.

• Provide documentation for audit-ready reconciliation sign-off.

• Deliver verified payroll setups to the ongoing client delivery team.

• Collaborate with Implementation Specialists to gather, summarize, and verify onboarding information and datasets.

• Examine, monitor, and document payroll variances, addressing root causes alongside implementation and finance teams.

• Maintain frameworks for live payroll systems and execute platform updates and schema modifications.

• Conduct audits on systems and accounts.

• Integrate changes in payroll and pension legislation into active account builds.

• Innovate system, document/template, and process enhancements.

• Prepare evidence for reconciliation and sign-off materials for operational transitions.

• Create integrated payroll journals and operational summaries for client financial controllers.

• Adhere to information security policies and UK GDPR data governance.

• Carry out administrative data validation and provide workplace support tasks.

• Maintain expert knowledge of company products and features.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated and documented payroll operational experience in a dynamic environment.

• Current and thorough knowledge of standard UK payroll frameworks and pension delivery protocols.

• Hands-on experience and solid technical knowledge of computerized payroll systems, payroll implementation methodologies, and platform constructions.

• Strong operational insight into payroll compliance, legal parameters, and auditing frameworks.

• Ability to organize, manage, and deliver multiple customer payroll builds simultaneously under tight deadlines.

• Highly advanced data management, structural data profiling, and spreadsheet analysis capabilities.

• Exceptional attention to detail.

• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.

• Capability to clearly articulate reconciliation processes to stakeholders.

• Desirable: experience with payroll setups in the UK education sector, including multi-academy trusts or local authorities.

• Desirable: certification as a formal payroll or pension practitioner, such as CIPP or an equivalent qualification.

• Desirable: foundational experience with implementations of cloud-based SaaS platforms.

🏝️ Benefits

• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays (25 days annual leave plus 7 additional company-wide days).

• Life Assurance equivalent to 3 times the annual salary.

• Comprehensive wellness benefits including 24/7 virtual GP access, mental health support, counseling, and personalized health checks.

• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa.

• Salary sacrifice Pension scheme provided by Scottish Widows.

• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay).

• Enhanced paternity leave (6 weeks full pay).

• 5 complimentary return-to-work maternity coaching sessions.

• Access to Calm and Bippit for financial wellbeing coaching.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Active social committees and various team, office, and company-wide events.

• A dedicated professional development training budget, including CPD courses, upskilling resources, and professional memberships.

• One paid volunteer day each year.

• Wellbeing initiatives, including mindfulness sessions, lunch and learns, manager training, and mental health first aid training.