Senior Payroll Analyst

Location: UK - Hatfield | Job-ID: 218787 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: Finance & Accounting

Life on the team

Job Title: Senior Payroll Analyst

Location: Hatfield based – hybrid-working

About the Role

We’re looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Senior Payroll Analyst to join our Payroll team at Computacenter. In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing for our UK operations.

You will act as a subject matter expert, driving compliance, continuous improvement, and delivering an exceptional employee experience.

What You’ll Be Doing

• End-to-end processing of complex payrolls, ensuring accuracy and compliance with local tax and employment regulations.
• Remaining up to date with any legal changes through websites and reading material.
• Ensuring that all company benefits are monitored and correctly recorded and comply legal legislation.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders (HR, Finance, Reward) and external providers to resolve payroll queries and ensure data integrity.
• Leading or supporting payroll audits and year-end activities including P60s, P11Ds, and HMRC submissions.
• Additional understanding of the complexities of items such as, additional payrolled benefits, Parental Leave, Sharesave schemes, overtime etc
• Identifying and implementing process improvements to streamline operations and reduce risk.
• Acting as a key contact for escalated payroll issues, providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members.
• Production of management information and reports sharing this information and using Excel to an advanced level
• Managing employee queries relating to payroll
• Assisting in various projects to improve the payroll service and SAP systems
• Identify and implement continuous improvement across the payroll with a focus on improving efficiencies and automation
• Maintain and process payroll system reports responsible for legal patch testing and involving the Payroll Assistants.
• Prioritise and action daily/weekly tasks to meet SLA’s
• Assisting the global mobility team with overseas assignments.
• Controlling the year end processes and creation of new tax year

What you’ll need

• Proven experience in a senior payroll role, ideally within a large or complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation (knowledge of international payrolls is a plus).
• Experience with SAP payroll systems is a must.
• Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail, and a proactive problem-solving mindset.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and work collaboratively.
• CIPP qualification (or working towards) desirable.

About us

We are a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business.

We’re a place where you can belong

With over 21,000 people across 22 countries, we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and truly belong.

You’ll see this reflected in our recruitment process too. We aim to provide fair access to opportunities and an inclusive, barrier‑free experience. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the skills and experience we need.

As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme. If you opt in and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you’ll be guaranteed an interview, and we’re happy to support any reasonable adjustments.  Please let us know when you apply.

If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward-thinking environment - we’d love to hear from you!