Catalyst Partners
Are you looking to build your career in payroll and benefits within a fast-paced, international professional services environment? This is an opportunity to join a high-performing organisation where accuracy, collaboration, and people-first service really matter. You’ll play a key role in delivering a high-quality payroll and benefits experience, gain exposure to complex processes, and work closely with an experienced HR team that values development, initiative, and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Processing the monthly UK payroll for over 500 employees, including RTI submissions and payroll journal postings, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Managing end-to-end UK payroll activities, including starters, leavers, statutory payments, auto-enrolment, and pension administration
- Completing manual calculations when required alongside payroll systems
- Ensuring payroll processes adhere to agreed timelines, controls, and reporting requirements
- Administering month-end and year-end processes, including P60s
- Performing monthly reconciliations between payroll systems and HMRC records for PAYE and National Insurance
- Working closely with the wider HR team to ensure alignment and accuracy
- Liaising with benefits and pension providers and other third parties
- Providing high-quality support to employees and partners on payroll and benefits queries
- Maintaining data quality and integrity across all systems
- Processing provider invoices accurately and on time
- Managing monthly and annual benefit reconciliations
- Updating content on the organisation’s benefits platform
Experience
- Proven experience in a similar payroll, pensions, and benefits role
- Strong IT capability, particularly advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Experience within a partnership or professional services environment (desirable)
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail
- Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and confidentiality
- Proactive, flexible, and solution-focused approach
- Empathetic and people-centred mindset
- Strong customer service orientation
- Confident relationship-builder, able to engage at all organisational levels
- Positive, resilient, and adaptable attitude
- Ability to manage changing deadlines and priorities effectively
- Strong organisational, planning, and time-management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
