Payroll & HR Administrator

Payroll & HR Administrator

Salary: £40,000 Based: Watford Fully on-site

Are you an experienced Payroll & HR professional looking for a varied and people-focused role? We’re seeking a Payroll & HR Administrator to play a key part in supporting this dynamic HR team and ensuring smooth, accurate, and compliant payroll and HR processes across the employee lifecycle.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with strong attention to detail, excellent organisational skills, and a proactive mindset to make a real impact within a busy HR function.

Key Responsibilities:

Payroll & Reporting:

• Act as the first point of contact for payroll queries
• Manage the payroll inbox and coordinate monthly and 4-weekly payroll runs with the external payroll provider
• Ensure all payroll-impacting changes (absence, maternity, holidays, etc.) are processed accurately
• Maintain data accuracy in the Payroll & HR system
• Produce HR/payroll reports and data reporting
• Verify employee hours, breaks, and holiday accruals

Compliance:

• Maintain up-to-date and compliant right-to-work documentation
• Accurately manage employee starter and leaver records
• Ensure payroll compliance throughout onboarding and offboarding processes

Employee Lifecycle & HR Support

• Support onboarding, leaver processing, and changes to terms and conditions
• Conduct monthly right-to-work audits
• Respond to reference and general employee queries
• Provide first-line HR advice to managers
• Assist with HR projects, process improvements, and automation initiatives

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience supporting end-to-end payroll processes (monthly and 4-weekly)
• Strong administrative, organisational, and time-management skills
• Excellent attention to detail and numerical accuracy
• Confident communicator, both written and verbal
• Trustworthy and discreet when handling sensitive information
• Positive, proactive, and solutions-focused approach
• CIPD Level 3 qualified (or working towards)
• Advanced Excel skills

Should you be interested in discussing this vacancy please contact Annabel Green via LinkedIn.

Resourcing4HR is an independent HR Recruitment and Consultancy company specialising in supporting the HR Community - both candidates and clients alike, in a partnership approach to resourcing HR professionals.

Resourcing4HR is an equal opportunities employer and a company committed to diversity.

Resourcing4HR operates as a Recruitment Agency for the provision of permanent candidates and as a Recruitment Business for the provision of temporary candidates