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Payroll Specialist (18-month FTC)

Location:
Hybrid
Salary Details:
£30,000 - £35,000 DoE
Advertising End Date:
09 Nov 2025

About The Role

Ecotricity is seeking a Payroll Specialist to join our small, dedicated team on a fixed-term basis. In this role, you will learn and manage all aspects of the payroll process to ensure an accurate, compliant, and efficient service. Acting as the central point of contact for all employee payroll queries, you’ll be responsible for processing payrolls accurately and on time, producing and delivering all required outputs - including third-party payments, P60s, and P11Ds - to the appropriate recipients. You will carry out quality reviews and compliance checks, maintain up-to-date payroll process documentation, and prepare reports detailing earnings, taxes, deductions, and headcount information for Finance.

The role also involves balancing payroll accounts by resolving discrepancies, providing ad-hoc reporting, and supporting continuous improvement by recommending enhancements to systems and processes. You’ll ensure timely and accurate payment of payroll-related invoices, manage statutory documentation and payments (such as P11Ds, P45s, P60s, SMP, and SSP), and set up salary sacrifice schemes in line with legislation and company policy. Additionally, you’ll liaise with our external payroll provider to resolve queries, and produce and submit BACS files, RTI submissions, and auto-enrolment information as required.

About You

  • Experience of using Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook to a proficient level.
  • Experience in a payroll administration and an understanding of general payroll legislation is essential.
  • Adaptable to changing priorities.
  • Ability to prioritise work to achieve deadlines.
  • Excellent customer service skills.
  • Ability to work either as part of a team or individually. Understanding the requirement of taking both ownership and responsibility for allocated payroll delivery - ability to challenge when required.
  • Previous experience of working in an in-house payroll environment is desirable.
  • Demonstrable experience of dealing directly with stakeholders, business partners and employees.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.
  • Organised, pro-active with a high level of attention to detail.
  • Previous experience using ADP and/or Workday would advantageous.
  • Good understanding of PAYE and automatic enrolment legislation.

About Us

What's in it for you...

  • Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
  • Volunteering Day
  • Hybrid Working
  • Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
  • Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
  • Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

 

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.