Payroll Advisor

Ready to take your payroll career to the next level?

Join us at GXO as a Payroll Advisor and play a key role in keeping our payroll operations running like clockwork—ensuring every colleague is paid accurately and on time. If you’ve already built up experience in payroll and are looking for your next challenge, we want to hear from you!

This is a permanent role based at our Northampton head office which offers the flexibility of hybrid working, with up to three days a week in the office.

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Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £30,000 per annum. In addition, we offer and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes, a company sponsored pension scheme, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Collaborate across Payroll and HR Operations, supporting Team Leads and stepping in during their absence.
• Review payroll each cycle to identify and resolve errors (e.g., overpayments, zero payments) before final processing
• Accurately input, update, and maintain payroll data (including employee records, deductions, absences, and statutory payments)
• Manage queries via SNOW, ensuring timely resolution, clear communication, and prioritisation of high-impact issues
• Provide payroll support services, including calculations, reporting, payments, documentation (e.g., payslips, P45/P60), and stakeholder engagement with sites

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Experienced payroll professional, adaptable team player with initiative; desirable knowledge of ADP GlobalView, SNOW, and working towards or holding CIPP qualification
• Strong customer service focus with excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage workloads in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment while meeting SLAs
• Maintains strict confidentiality and professionalism, with a sound understanding of GDPR and handling sensitive information
• Numerate and analytical, with intermediate Microsoft Office skills (Excel, Outlook, Word)

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.