Payroll Technical Analyst

We’re on the lookout for a Payroll Technical Analyst (Systems) who’s passionate about driving change, streamlining processes, and making a real impact.

In this pivotal role, you’ll be the engine behind our payroll automation journey—partnering with stakeholders, diving deep into systems, and delivering smarter, faster solutions. If you're detail-driven, tech-savvy, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this is your chance to shape how payroll works across the business.

You’ll be based out of our head office in Northampton, where we also offer level a of home/flexible working, provided you’re able to attend the office as and when required.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary of up to £50,000 per annum. In addition, we offer days 25 days annual leave, plus inclusive of bank holidays and the option to purchase additional days. Your benefits package includes flexible dental insurance plans, 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:

• Manage all BAU Payroll reporting and analytic activities
• Develop the Payroll change program working closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure best in practice processes, tracking, reporting, and escalations are in place for all changes
• Be responsible for ensuring all Payroll change is delivered accurately on time and within budget
• Support the continuous development of the payroll platform and resolutions
• Support the pipeline of change with third party providers and internal stakeholders, including writing of test scripts, UAT and expected outcomes
• Be a subject matter expert for the payroll platform including alignment to statutory compliance

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• A solid background in payroll with a strong track record of working with large amounts of data and reporting, you’ll need to be a confident user of a data analytics tool such as Power BI, Google Analytics or Tableau, SQL knowledge & advanced MS Access.  If you have knowledge of Java or Python knowledge this would be big tick for us!
• Familiarity of working with Service Now
• Strong analytical and project management skills with the ability to identify and resolve problems with minimal supervision
• Hands-on and in-depth experience of working with ADP Global View, SAP or similar payroll products
• Excellent  business analysis skills including communication, influencing, listening and organizational skills

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.

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