Payroll Analyst

Arcadis; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consultancy firm seeks a Payroll Analyst to manage payroll processes ensuring accuracy and compliance with tax regulations. The role requires a payroll qualification or equivalent experience, and familiarity with medium to large payroll systems. You will supervise payroll services, handle employee queries, and ensure timely payments. This position emphasizes strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with various stakeholders, contributing to the firm's impactful initiatives.

Qualifications

• Qualified payroll qualification or experience equivalent.
• Experience in managing medium to large payroll processes.
• Good understanding of tax and remuneration principles.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and ensure payroll accuracy and timeliness.
• Review employee remuneration changes before payroll submission.
• Co-ordinate manual payroll payments.

Skills

Qualified payroll qualification or equivalent by experience

Experience with medium/large payroll

Good understanding of technical principles on reward and tax

Excel literate

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Excellent time management skills

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company کام delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description

As a Payroll Analyst, you will supervise and oversee the entire payroll process to ensure that all payments to employees are accurate and processed on time. You will be responsible for verifying that payroll transactions comply with internal policies and relevant tax regulations, ensuring timely remittance to tax authorities. By maintaining meticulous records and conducting regular audits, you will help guarantee the integrity and confidentiality of payroll data and support overall compliance with legal and organizational requirements.

This role will be reporting to the Payroll Operations Manager-UK&I.

Role accountabilities

• Supervise effective payroll service for business
• Review changes to employee remuneration (eg starters / leavers) and details before submission to payroll provider
• Check monthly payroll outputs
• Co‑ordinate manual payments
• Handle absence, maternity and shared parental leave
• Deal with employee queries
• Provide specialist advice to internal clients
• Assess and evaluate processes in order to identify improvement opportunities

Qualifications & Experience

• Qualified payroll qualification or equivalent by experience
• Experience with medium/large payroll
• Good understanding of technical principles on reward and tax
• Excel literate and good experience of payroll systems
• Consistent high standards and methodical
• Highly motivated
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Confidence to interact effectively with employees and payroll provider
• Excellent time management skills

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills‑based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around түркистан.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.