About this role
About Cambridge Consultants
2026 is a pivotal moment to join Cambridge Consultants, the Deep Tech powerhouse of the global Capgemini group. We do extraordinary, new-to-the-world deep tech innovation. What is deep tech? It’s a mindset; a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It enables our clients to gain unassailable commercial advantage from defendable technology that they own. Markets are redefined, and the world takes notice.
About the role
As our Payroll Manager, you'll make a valuable - and valued – contribution. The role will be responsible for processing data for the monthly payrolls within our UK operation (approx. 650 members of staff).
The Payroll Manager is responsible for executing and overseeing end-to-end payroll processes. This role ensures accurate, compliant, and timely payroll delivery dealing with complex payroll issues, supporting audits, and driving continuous improvement across payroll operations.
What you'll be doing
- Manage all day to day processing within the monthly payroll cycle for the UK entity
- Run monthly reports to validate payroll before processing including statutory payments
- Ensure compliance with local legislation (i.e HMRC, pensions, statutory reporting)
- Maintain and audit employee payroll records, ensuring proper setup of tax codes, benefits, allowances, and deductions
- Administer statutory payments (e.g., SSP/SMP/SPP/SAP in the UK
- Support pension enrolment, statutory reporting, and compliance obligations
- Agree & authorise RTI submissions
- Assist with all Payroll Inbox admin
- Assist with benefit administration – eg, Private Health, Travel insurance, Cycle Scheme
- Assist with Holiday Record Administration
We're excited if you have
- 4–6 years of hands-on payroll experience
- Deep knowledge of UK payroll legislation
- Experience working with external payroll vendors and internal platforms
- Proven ability to reconcile payroll data, identify discrepancies, and resolve independently
- Strong analytical mindset with high accuracy, attention to detail and confidentiality
- Demonstrated experience operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- CIPP or comparable European payroll certification (or working toward certification)
- Experience with benefits-in-kind and year-end reporting
- Advanced Excel skills (lookups, pivots, reconciliation tools)
- Experience supporting internal/external audits
Other facts
About Cambridge Consultants
We do deep tech, you create the future… we are Cambridge Consultants. We do extraordinary, new-to-the-world deep tech innovation. What is deep tech? It’s a mindset; a bold strategy that harnesses radical science and engineering to achieve things no-one else can. It enables our clients to gain unassailable commercial advantage from defendable technology that they own. Markets are redefined, and the world takes notice.
As the deep tech powerhouse of Capgemini, we’re ready to work with you to create technologies, services and products that have never been seen before. And which will transform business, society and the planet. If your ambition is to shatter the status quo, it’s time to get the future you want – with the power of deep tech.
We are global team of 800 bright, talented people, delivering work across 35 countries from offices in Cambridge (UK) Boston (USA), Singapore and Tokyo. We have more than 140 laboratories and over 200,000 square feet of world-class design and development facilities.
Our people are united by the ambition to turn brilliant, breakthrough ideas into scaled technologies, products and services. Cambridge Consultants is trusted by some of the world’s biggest brands and most ambitious start-ups to achieve their critical technology-based aspirations – and we’ve been doing it for more than 60 years.
What you'll do
- The Payroll Manager will oversee the end-to-end payroll processes for the UK operation, ensuring accurate and timely payroll delivery. This includes managing day-to-day payroll processing, compliance with local legislation, and supporting audits.
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