Payroll Administrator - 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Payroll Administrator – 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

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Team: Payroll
Location: Bristol or London, with flexibility to commute to our Bristol hub a couple of times per month when needed
Salary: £26,000–£30,000
Experience: Learner level, with some payroll experience
Reporting to: Senior Payroll Manager
Sponsorship: Unfortunately, we’re unable to offer sponsorship for this role
This role in three words: Analytical, compliance, detail
Top three qualities: Thorough, professional, communicative

Where you’ll work

We expect hub-based people to work from the office at least once a week and attend OVO Connection events in person.

You’ll ideally be assigned to our Bristol hub at The Crescent. We can consider London-based candidates, provided you can travel to Bristol when needed. Our accessible hubs are designed to help people connect, collaborate and bring ideas to life.

Everyone belongs at OVO

We’re on a mission to solve one of humanity’s biggest challenges: the climate crisis. We know it takes all of us to change the world, so we need people with diverse abilities, identities, ethnicities, ages, orientations, experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do revolves around Plan Zero. An efficient Finance team is vital to achieving it, and this role helps us get the fundamentals right while supporting the wider Procure to Pay function.

This role in a nutshell

As a key member of the Payroll team, you’ll support the accurate and timely payment of our people. You’ll work with stakeholders including Reward, People Services and Treasury, helping us provide the best possible service while supporting the full end-to-end payroll process and maintaining accuracy and compliance.

Your key outcomes will be:

- Supporting the accurate, timely processing and final checks of monthly payrolls.
- Processing payroll changes, including starters, leavers, additions, deductions, variable pay and overtime.
- Assisting with P11Ds, P60s, pensions and workplace benefits.
- Administering and manually calculating statutory, enhanced and sick leave, including SAP, SPP, SMP, SSP, SHPP and CSP.
- Resolving payroll queries within agreed SLAs.
- Issuing leaver payslips and P45s.
- Checking compliance with National Minimum and Living Wage requirements.
- Distributing court-order remittances and processing HMRC notifications.
- Completing post-payroll reporting and supporting payroll sign-off.
- Providing general Finance administration and helping refine and implement processes.

You’ll be a successful Payroll Administrator at OVO if you:

- Work confidently in a fast-changing environment and can propose, justify and implement improvements.
- Are a collaborative team player who understands stakeholder needs and focuses on outcomes that add value.
- Can analyse data and use sound judgement to solve complex issues.
- Are diligent, detail-focused and willing to investigate problems thoroughly.
- Communicate clearly, including when explaining complex payroll queries.
- Can manage strict deadlines in a dynamic environment.

Ideally, you’ll also have:

- Payroll experience and a good knowledge of payroll legislation.
- Excellent communication skills.
- The initiative to work independently and as part of a wider team.
- Experience thriving as part of a team in a challenging environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and Google Workspace.

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you £26,000–£30,000, depending on your skills and experience. We keep our ranges broad to give us flexibility to match your experience to our zero-carbon mission.

You’ll also be eligible for a 15% on-target bonus through our company-wide plan, which rewards the collective performance of our people in delivering Plan Zero.

On top of your salary, you’ll receive 9% Flex Pay. We’ll automatically put 4% into your pension, while the remaining 5% can be used for flexible benefits, added to your pension or taken as cash.

You’ll receive 34 days’ holiday, including bank holidays, alongside benefits including:

- Health: A healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance, depending on career level, plus critical illness cover, life assurance and health assessments.
- Wellbeing: Gym membership, travel and dental insurance, workplace ISA and will-writing services.
- Lifestyle: Holiday buying, dining discounts, home and technology loans, and give-as-you-earn donations.
- Home: Up to £400 towards an OVO Energy plan, plus discounts on solar, smart thermostats and EV chargers.
- Commute: Ultra-low-emission car leasing, Cycle to Work and public transport season-ticket loans.

Our People Team can tell you more about our benefits and policies.

For your belonging

We listen to our people’s experiences to help build a genuinely inclusive and diverse workplace. OVO has eight people-led Belonging Networks, and you can play as big or small a part in them as you choose.

One last thing…

We’d be thrilled if you tick every box, but we also believe it’s important that we tick yours. If you have most of what we’re looking for, please apply—we’d still love to hear from you.

If you have any additional requirements, tell us on the application form. We want to make the process as easy and comfortable as possible