Payroll & Benefits Specialist - FTC

Softcat plc; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK technology solutions provider is looking for a Payroll and Benefits specialist in Glasgow. This role involves ensuring smooth payroll processing, compliance with legislation, and collaboration with HR. Ideal candidates will have a strong understanding of payroll, excellent IT skills, and experience in handling stakeholder queries. Hybrid working options available.

Benefits

Pension

Share incentive plan

Life Assurance

Additional holiday for birthday and Christmas

Director hosted lunches and incentive trips

Technology vouchers

Partner/family benefits

Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption support

Access to Perklife portal

Responsibilities

• Processing payroll cycles for multiple regions including expenses processing.
• Validating and signing off payroll checks and controls.
• Managing daily workload and responding to payroll-related emails.
• Maintaining comprehensive guidance notes and ensuring payroll system efficiency.
• Collaborating with HR on benefits administration.
• Acting as a subject matter expert for payroll queries.

Skills

Understanding of taxation, payroll, and pensions legislations

Experience with payroll inputting and output checking

Familiarity with international payroll processing

Excellent IT skills, including Excel

Strong communication skills

Organisational skills

Problem-solving skills

Job description

** THIS IS A 9 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT**

Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive,collaborativeand innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate,and collaborative team?

Join our Payroll & Benefits team

Softcat's payroll team is part of a larger HR department that includes HR Services, Learning & Development, Reward, Recruitment, Diversity & Inclusion, and Employee Engagement. The team collaborates to ensure that all payroll and benefit tasks are completed efficiently and accurately, working with various stakeholders across the business, such as Finance, HR Services, Benefits, and Reward.

Success. The Softcat Way.

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses.We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first.We've reached the £1 billion+ parevenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even biggerplans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

Streamlining payroll with precision, compliance, and accuracy

As a Payroll and Benefits specialist, you will be responsible for ensuring smooth payroll processing with timely, accurate information, conducting checks on monthly reports before management approval, and maintaining full compliance with payroll and pension legislation.

As a Payroll & Benefits specialist, you'll be responsible for:

• Processing payroll cycles for multiple regions including expenses processing
• Validating and signing off payroll checks and controls
• Managing daily workload and responding to payroll-related emails
• Maintaining comprehensive guidance notes and ensuring payroll system efficiency
• Collaborating with HR and management on benefits administration and improvements
• Acting as a subject matter expert for payroll queries and contribute to related projects

We'd love you to have

• Detailed understanding of taxation, payroll, and pensions legislations
• Experience with payroll inputting, output checking, and accounting principles
• Familiarity with international payroll processing (e.g., Ireland, US, Singapore)
• Excellent IT skills, including Excel, HR, and payroll systems
• Strong communication, organisation, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to engage with stakeholders and handle pay/benefits queries effectively

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working –1-2 days in the office and rest working from home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives,and embraces every background.

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Anyinformation you share on your application will be treated in confidence.

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/

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We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefits include:

Benefits

• Pension
• Share incentive plan
• Life Assurance
• Holiday – Two days extra holiday on top of your usual entitlement on your birthday and at Christmas
• Trips – Opportunity to qualify for Director hosted lunches as well as half and full year incentive trips to places all over the world
• Vouchers – Technology vouchers, activity passes, restaurant discount card
• Partner/family Benefits – Option to add your partner/family to some of the benefits
• Maternity, Paternity and Adoption support
• Access to Perklife, our dedicated portal for all perks and flexible benefits