Payroll Administrator

Job Title:       Payroll Administrator

Location:       Boscombe Down, Salisbury

Package:       Competitive Salary + Benefits Package  

Role Type:     Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months

Role ID:         SF17287
 

The Role

As a Payroll Adminstrator you will be a vital team member working within the UK Shared Services team. You will support managing and delivering payroll for nearly 6000 employees on a monthly basis. In addition, you will be answering any payroll related queries from employees providing excellent customer service at all times. This role will suit someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment.

 

Day-to-day, you will:

• Provide 1st line payroll support (via phone, email, and drop-in visits into the Helpdesk)
• Administer the payroll for the four different payrolls
• Process all payroll files in accordance with the payroll schedule and payroll cut-offs
• Ensure compliance with GDPR regulations, organisational policies, procedures and work instructions
• Ensure compliance with all HMRC and payroll policies, procedures and work instructions

 

This role is full-time, 37 hours per week where you will work on a hybrid basis, you will working on site two days per week and the rest from home.
 
Experience of the Payroll Administrator:

• Demonstrable experience working within a Payroll position
• In depth knowledge within Tax Codes, National Insurance and Statuary Sick Pay
• High level of Customer Service
• Excel Skills – V lookups, Pivot tables etc

 

Qualifications of the Payroll Administrator:

• CIPP or any other payroll qualifications are desirable 

 

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum. 

National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
 
Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave. 
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. 
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.

 
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community. 

 

 

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

 

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

 

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

 

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.