About Corndel:

Corndel is a unique, multi award-winning UK management and technology training provider that focuses on delivering the highest quality programmes throughout an employee’s career. We partner with some of the UK’s largest and most exciting businesses to help drive organisational and personal performance through transformational learning and have a vision is to shape a world where everyone is empowered to be their professional best.

We have been successful due to our focus on the quality of the experience for our learners and clients, delivered through highly valued and engaged experts with a real passion for what they do. At our core are our people and our culture is caring, supportive, can do, informal and fun.

Corndel has recently joined Galileo Global Education, one of the world’s leading global education businesses. We are at the start of the next phase of growth and transformation of the business and our people are central to our growth and success.

The Payroll & HR Administrator Role:

People are at the core of Corndel, and we are looking for a Payroll & HR Administrator to join the People team to play a key role ensuring the effective and smooth running our payroll processes and support us to evolve our employee offer and experience at Corndel.

In this role, you will be responsible for delivering all aspects of the payroll process, ensuring its accuracy and timeliness to enable us to pay and reward our people and meet our compliance and regulatory responsibilities. Additionally, when needed, you will support HR administration tasks to ensure smooth operations within the HR department.

Responsibilities:

Payroll Processing:

• Deliver end-to-end payroll processing, including onboarding and offboarding employees, managing monthly variations in hours, administering leave entitlements (such as family leave, sabbaticals, long-term absence, and other types of leave), pensions, bonuses, and other compensation components.
• Ensure the accurate and timely release of payslips through the online payroll portal, ensuring employees receive their pay in line with our commitments and governance obligations.
• Coordinate the monthly payroll input to approval timeline, ensuring clear roles, responsibilities, and communication.

Governance & Compliance:

• Stay up to date with UK payroll tax laws and regulations, including PAYE, National Insurance contributions, pensions, and pay entitlements.
• Ensure payroll processes comply with UK legal requirements and company policies.
• Deliver our requirements under PAYE to HMRC according to the tax year calendar and as part of the monthly payroll processing.
• Maintain full traceability and auditability of payroll records.
• Ensure payroll processes operate within agreed internal governance standards and approvals are made in line with agreed delegation of authorities matrices.

System Management:

• Maintain the payroll system, ensuring effective controls and routines are in place to ensure data accuracy, backup, and efficient use to streamline payroll processes.

Reporting:

• Generate and analyse payroll reports for approval, management, accounting, and auditing purposes to support business and external requirements.
• Ensure the timely submission of payroll data to HMRC and other agencies or providers as required.

Support & Communication:

• Proactively communicate payroll information to employees to minimize payroll-related queries.
• Respond to and manage payroll-related questions and issues in a timely and supportive manner, ensuring employees receive accurate information and issues are resolved promptly.
• Work collaboratively with the HR and Finance departments to ensure effective processes and timely resolution of issues.

HR Administration (as and when required and not limited to):

• Support HR in monitoring the HR inbox, ensuring timely responses to queries and issues.
• Complete reference requests and draft templated letters and contracts.
• Assist with HR inductions, ensuring new employees are onboarded smoothly and effectively.
• Communicate leavers to IT to ensure timely deactivation of accounts and retrieval of company property.

About You - What We Are Looking For:

• Previous demonstrable UK payroll experience gained in a payroll function of a medium-sized business (approximately 300+ people).
• In-depth knowledge of UK payroll and pensions regulations, tax, and compliance.
• Experience using payroll software and leveraging technology to improve processes.
• Approachable, easy to talk to, with excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills, with the ability to challenge and get to the root cause of issues and propose solutions.
• Experience in making process improvements, both big and small.
• Treats information with care and respect, maintaining integrity, confidentiality, and handling sensitive information carefully.
• Effective use of MS Office and SharePoint tools to support collaboration, communication, and planning.
• Someone who enjoys working as part of a team and is equally happy to work independently.

Why join Corndel?

• We're committed to having a fully inclusive, welcoming, and safe culture and always striving to improve.
• We provide an environment that is truly flexible and supportive, somewhere you will have autonomy over your role.
• We are a leader in our field, with quality and excellence at the heart of what we do.

As part of our commitment to create an inclusive workplace where all colleagues can be their true selves, excel in their roles and progress in their careers, we recognise the importance of embracing the diversity in the working population and making Corndel a fully accessible employer.

As Corndel is a Disability Confident Employer, we make sure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a job will be offered an interview. If you would like to be considered under this scheme, when submitting your application, please select the appropriate option to let us know that you have a disability. Please note this does not mean that all disabled people are entitled to an interview, in some recruitment situations such as peak times, we might need to limit the overall numbers of interviews we offer.

If you have a disability that might affect any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know about any help or reasonable adjustments you need before any interview or assessment. We’ll work with you to make sure any appropriate support is in place and make the application process a more positive experience.

Corndel is committed to safeguarding and safer recruitment practices, and will undertake pre-employment checks on the successful candidate, including Enhanced DBS Disclosure and a Barred List Check.