Payroll Officer
| Posting date: | 30 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,141 to £27,520 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 17 August 2025 |
| Location: | Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Cornerstone |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 3646 |
Summary
Are you an experienced in Payroll and on the lookout for the next step in your career or a fresh new challenge? We could have just the role you are looking for!
We have an exciting opportunity to join Cornerstone as our new Payroll Officer on a part-time (23.5 hours per week), permanent basis. It's a very exciting time to join our team as we implement our brand new HR & Payroll system.
This role can be based in either our Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen office, or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen. There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations for meetings and training (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).
The Role
Reporting to our Depute Payroll Lead and working alongside your fellow Payroll Officers, you’ll be involved in the day-to-day activities of our payroll department, ensuring that payments to our colleagues are compliant, accurate and made in a timely manner.
As a main point of contact for our colleague queries, you will use your Payroll expertise to ensure that we deliver a supportive, exceptional service to around 1,800 colleagues across our organisation.
You'll assist in the running of the monthly payroll process to ensure that colleagues are paid on the specified pay date of each month, ensuring that all salary payments are made in line with employment legislation and that deductions are made in line with employment legislation and are recorded and submitted to statutory bodies within timescale.
Please see the Role Profile attached to our advert for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
About You
What we'll need you to bring: -
A minimum of 2 years' experience of delivering a comprehensive and compliant payroll and pension service (including pension auto-enrolement and RTI)
Degree or CIPP/IPPM equivalent qualification or extensive experience in a comparable role
Excellent customer service skills
Great communication skills (written and verbal)
The ability to independantly problem solve to a successful conclusion
Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and organise your workload to meet tight deadlines
A proven track record of using Microsoft Office packages, including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
The ability to manage data, create reports and present information clearly and effectively
About Us
With 45 years' experience delivering great care and support, Cornerstone provides tailored, individual packages of care which focus on enabling people with a variety of needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and complex care needs, to live the best possible life.
We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.
What makes Cornerstone a great place to work
You'll join a friendly, warm and supportive team
Your job actually contributes to changing and improving lives - you'll make a difference in your local communities
We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
No uniform - we wear our own clothes
We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
We operate a flexi-time model for business support colleagues
Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy
Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
Long service awards
Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping to name a few
If you’re up for the challenge and think you have what it takes, then apply, we'd love to hear from you.
The successful candidate will need to undertake a Level 2 Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.
* Agencies please note - We have our own in-house Recruitment Team working to fill this vacancy and are not looking to work with an agency at present. Any unsolicited contact will not be responded to.
We have an exciting opportunity to join Cornerstone as our new Payroll Officer on a part-time (23.5 hours per week), permanent basis. It's a very exciting time to join our team as we implement our brand new HR & Payroll system.
This role can be based in either our Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen office, or part of our hybrid working model. If opting for hybrid, we would need you to live within a reasonable commute of Dundee, Glasgow or Aberdeen. There will be occasions that we'll need you to travel to other Cornerstone branch locations for meetings and training (travel expenses would be reimbursed as set out in Cornerstone’s expense policy with travel reimbursed by HMRC legislation).
The Role
Reporting to our Depute Payroll Lead and working alongside your fellow Payroll Officers, you’ll be involved in the day-to-day activities of our payroll department, ensuring that payments to our colleagues are compliant, accurate and made in a timely manner.
As a main point of contact for our colleague queries, you will use your Payroll expertise to ensure that we deliver a supportive, exceptional service to around 1,800 colleagues across our organisation.
You'll assist in the running of the monthly payroll process to ensure that colleagues are paid on the specified pay date of each month, ensuring that all salary payments are made in line with employment legislation and that deductions are made in line with employment legislation and are recorded and submitted to statutory bodies within timescale.
Please see the Role Profile attached to our advert for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
About You
What we'll need you to bring: -
A minimum of 2 years' experience of delivering a comprehensive and compliant payroll and pension service (including pension auto-enrolement and RTI)
Degree or CIPP/IPPM equivalent qualification or extensive experience in a comparable role
Excellent customer service skills
Great communication skills (written and verbal)
The ability to independantly problem solve to a successful conclusion
Strong organisational skills with the ability to plan and organise your workload to meet tight deadlines
A proven track record of using Microsoft Office packages, including Excel, Word and Powerpoint
The ability to manage data, create reports and present information clearly and effectively
About Us
With 45 years' experience delivering great care and support, Cornerstone provides tailored, individual packages of care which focus on enabling people with a variety of needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, autism and complex care needs, to live the best possible life.
We are always flexible and responsive in meeting the ever changing needs of the people we support and work closely with individuals and families to agree what sort of support will work best for them.
What makes Cornerstone a great place to work
You'll join a friendly, warm and supportive team
Your job actually contributes to changing and improving lives - you'll make a difference in your local communities
We have a culture of empowering our colleagues and teamwork
No uniform - we wear our own clothes
We fund up to £500 towards driving lessons
We operate a flexi-time model for business support colleagues
Access to funded qualifications through our SQA approved, award winning Training Academy
Ongoing continued professional development and career progression opportunities
Recommend a colleague bonus scheme
Long service awards
Access to a 24/7 independent employee assistance helpline
26 days annual leave (rising by 5 days after 5 years) plus 4 paid bank holidays
Family friendly leave options, including family, parental, bereavement and special leave
Access to lots of discounts, including the cinema, gym memberships, holidays and shopping to name a few
If you’re up for the challenge and think you have what it takes, then apply, we'd love to hear from you.
The successful candidate will need to undertake a Level 2 Disclosure check through Disclosure Scotland.
* Agencies please note - We have our own in-house Recruitment Team working to fill this vacancy and are not looking to work with an agency at present. Any unsolicited contact will not be responded to.
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