Senior Payroll Administrator
Location: Dartford office
This role does not offer visa sponsorship
The Opportunity
We're seeking a Senior Payroll Administrator to join our central payroll team in Dartford, supporting the delivery of payroll for approximately 10,000 employees and operatives. This is a dynamic, fast-paced position where no two days are the same. You'll play a critical role in ensuring colleagues are paid accurately and on time, while contributing to a service that is efficient, compliant, and continuously improving.
What You'll Be Doing
- Taking ownership of end-to-end payroll processing, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery
- Managing payroll activities including starters, leavers, salary changes, overtime, expenses, statutory and termination payments
- Administering payroll-related benefits such as pensions and salary sacrifice schemes
- Running reports, analysing data, and carrying out detailed validation checks
- Ensuring payroll compliance with relevant regulations and internal controls
- Supporting audit and governance requirements with confidence and accuracy
- Working closely with third-party providers to meet key deadlines
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes and drive efficiencies
- Supporting the wider team to maintain a smooth, professional payroll operation
Experience with these systems, or similar payroll platforms, would be highly advantageous:
About You:
- Proven payroll experience, ideally within a medium or large organisation
- Experience working with high-volume
- Knowledge of complex payroll environments (e.g. TUPE, pensions, unions, working agreements)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build strong working relationships
- Confidence to challenge appropriately and support robust decision-making
- Strong Excel skills (e.g. pivot tables, VLOOKUPs)
About us:
We are an international engineering and construction company delivering state-of-the-art infrastructure and buildings projects for clients in the UK, Middle East and Australia.
Certainty, reliability, quality – this is what our clients want. And at Laing O'Rourke, we have more than 150 years of experience delivering it. Laing O'Rourke's story is one of energy, passion, ambition, people and teamwork. We harness the power of our experience, stretching back over a century and a half to deliver certainty for our clients.
As part of the Disability Confident scheme, we would like to enable access to candidates with long term health conditions and disabilities through the ‘Offer an interview scheme'. This supports applicants that meet the essential criteria by offering an interview for the advertised position. Please let us know prior to interview what adjustments are required as well as discussing how we can support you in the workplace.
We want to ensure our recruitment process is accessible to all. If you need the application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please email resourcingteam@laingorourke.com
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