Payroll Team Member

About the role

Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too.

Join our HR Shared Services team as a Payroll Team Member and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.

This role is based in Newcastle and can be on a hybrid basis, 3 days office/2 days home working. 

What you'll be doing

You will join our established payroll team, being a key player in all things payroll, including:

Processing our weekly and monthly payroll including BACS and RTI
Validating all payroll output, including data input by employees, the business, and the wider HR Shared Services Team
Manual calculations from gross to net pay, including NI and PAYE
Dealing with employee salary and payroll queries
Interfaces from third party suppliers as well as our internal time and attendance systems
Being responsible for creating, maintaining, and updating payroll processes
Payroll reporting

Who we're looking for

Our new team member will, ideally, have worked with a weekly payroll and have an awareness of Working Rules Agreements. They will also be used to high volume workloads and will be able to work towards our KPIs of timeliness and quality.

They will have extensive experience in the end-to-end payroll running process and will be proficient in the use of Payroll Software. They will also be competent in producing manual calculations as well as the use of excel.

A good attention to detail is critical in this role and our successful candidate will take full responsibility for the quality of their own work as well as supporting colleagues in maintaining our high standards.

Strong verbal and written communicative skills are hugely valued in HR Shared Services; our customers are at the centre of everything we do; we need to ensure that we are able to communicate effectively with them.

Why work for us

What you’ll get in return for your hard work & commitment:

You’ll be part of a great team. We have fun, work hard and offer great careers.

HR Shared Services is the critical team that enables all we do for our people. The success of this team is fundamental to our people and our business. We enable the business to deliver amazing infrastructure project through providing great administrative support to employees throughout their entire career journey with us.

Our specialist teams look after the HR and payroll of our 12,000 UK based employees, across a range of roles in Construction, Utilities, and Rail.

Alongside the amazing opportunity, support and pride that you'll gain from developing your career with one of the world’s foremost infrastructure giants, you'll also enjoy a range of benefits:

Company DC pension scheme up to 5% EEs & 7% ERs;
Opportunity to join into the company’s attractive SIP scheme;
Wellbeing hour each week to use for non-work-related activities conducive to your wellbeing;
Flexible benefits window Options to purchase additional holidays, bikes, tech vouchers, dental cover, Private Medical Insurance;
Enhanced company Maternity/Paternity/Shared parental/Adoption schemes;
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (pro-rated for part-time arrangements);
Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications (Company sponsored CIPD / CIPP)
Employee assistance programme
Up to 2 days volunteering per year
Company funded social events.

In joining our team you are joining a strong HR function, where you can join us as the first step on a great career in HR, or simply join us be the best you can be in your role we will support you either way.

About us

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business. To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at