Senior Payroll Practitioner
About this role
Why join us
Joining the Payroll Operations team at Sainsbury's offers the opportunity to play a crucial role in ensuring the accurate and timely production of payroll services across the organisation. As a Senior Payroll Practitioner, you will be part of a dynamic team dedicated to delivering high-quality service to colleagues throughout Sainsbury's, including retail, store support centres, and distribution. With a focus on professionalism and excellence, this role provides a platform for continuous learning and development, where you can contribute to maintaining compliance, building strong relationships, and making a real impact on the payroll operations of a multi-channel, multi-brand business.
What you'll do
As a Senior Payroll Practitioner at Sainsbury's, you will be an integral part of the Payroll Operations team, ensuring the accurate and timely production and administration of payroll services across the organisation. Your responsibilities will include validating and reviewing remote input to the payroll system, responding to error messages, preparing data uploads, inputting payroll-related data, undertaking pay corrections, and providing expert support to the AskHR team for effective handling of pay queries. Additionally, you will be expected to maintain compliance with statutory requirements, company policies, and data protection regulations, while building strong relationships with HR Operations teams and constantly seeking ways to improve processes and service delivery. Your success in this role will be measured by the quality and timeliness of payroll data input, adherence to policies and procedures, maintenance of data confidentiality, and adherence to service level agreements to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Who you are
As a Senior Payroll Practitioner at Sainsbury's, you are a dedicated professional with a thorough understanding of payroll service delivery, statutory compliance, and company policies. With expertise in accurately processing payroll data and ensuring adherence to authorisation procedures, you excel in maintaining high standards of service delivery and customer satisfaction. Your ability to build strong relationships with HR Operations teams, drive process improvements, and uphold data confidentiality demonstrates your commitment to excellence in payroll administration and continuous improvement within a dynamic and collaborative environment.
Essential Criteria
Demonstrable experience of payroll administration and payroll processing, including inputting, validating or reviewing payroll data accurately and in line with processing deadlines.
Proven ability to identify, investigate and resolve payroll errors, warnings or incomplete data, escalating issues appropriately where required.
Working knowledge of statutory payroll requirements and deductions, such as tax codes, student loans, court orders, attachment of earnings or other regulatory payroll inputs.
Experience using payroll, HR or workforce management systems, alongside Excel or similar tools, to process uploads, data entry or payroll-related calculations.
Demonstrable understanding of payroll controls, authorisation processes and data protection requirements, including maintaining colleague confidentiality and adhering to policy and procedure
Company at a glance
Over 150 years old and still going strong, we’re the UK’s second-biggest retailer. Every day, the nation shops with us because they know they’ll get affordable, good food and excellent service.
We focus on great value and convenient shopping across our family of brands, from Argos, Nectar and Habitat to Sainsbury’s Bank, Smart Charge and Tu.
What’s next for Sainsbury’s?
We've put food back at the heart of our business and we’re taking Sainsbury’s to the next level. We’re investing in technology and people and we’re thinking bigger about how we attract and connect with our customers, while doing everything we can to create a more resilient UK food system.
Top Benefits
- Colleague discount
- Pension scheme
- Life cover
- Performance-related bonus
- Annual holiday allowance
- Season ticket loans
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health cash plans
- Pay advance
- Employee assistance programme
- Maternity leave
- Adoption leave
- Paternity leave
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