Senior Payroll Clerk
Join OCU as a Senior Payroll Clerk and make an impact where it matters. Deliver accurate, compliant payroll, support our teams, and help power the UK’s energy future.
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Senior Payroll Clerk
📍 Location: [Stockport] | 🕒 Full time | 💰 Competitive salary + benefits
Help shape the future of OCU by making sure our people are paid accurately, on time, and always supported — so they can build the UK’s energy transition and utilities infrastructure with confidence.
⭐ Why this role matters
As our new Senior Payroll Clerk, you’ll take the lead in delivering accurate, compliant, and timely payroll for employees paid weekly and monthly across our business. You’ll be a trusted point of contact for payroll queries, help improve processes and keep us fully aligned with ever-changing payroll legislation.
🛠 What you'll be doing
- Running weekly and monthly payroll cycles: calculating salaries, overtime, bonuses, and statutory payments (SSP, SMP, SPP)
- Ensuring correct application of deductions like PAYE tax, NI, pensions, student loans
- Producing and issuing payslips, P45s, P60s, P11Ds and handling Real Time Information (RTI) reporting to HMRC
- Keeping meticulous payroll records for audits and internal reporting
- Staying ahead of payroll legislation updates and ensuring compliance (e.g., tax codes, minimum wage, pension auto-enrolment)
- Acting as the go-to expert for payroll queries, liaising with HR, Finance, HMRC, and pension providers
- Protecting sensitive data, preventing errors, and constantly seeking opportunities to refine processes
✅ What we’re looking for
- Proven payroll experience, ideally in a senior or lead role
- Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation & HMRC requirements
- Confident with payroll software (Payrite, Xero, or similar)
- Excellent Excel skills and a love of detail and accuracy
- Strong organisational and time management abilities
- Clear and supportive communication skills to partner with employees and teams
Desirable (but not essential):
- Recognised payroll qualification (e.g., CIPP)
- Experience in high-volume or multi-site payroll environments
- Familiarity with pension auto-enrolment and payroll integration with HR systems
🚀 About OCU
As one of the UK’s leading utilities and energy transition contractors, OCU is tackling some of the industry’s toughest challenges. By blending experience and innovation, we’re delivering infrastructure that supports communities and a more sustainable future.
Ready to bring your payroll expertise to a role where it really matters?
Apply today and become part of something bigger.
- Division
- OCU Utilities
- Locations
- Stockport
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Employment Status
- PAYE/Staff
Stockport
Our People, our Culture, our Values
As a business, we pride ourselves on operating a ‘People First’ culture, striving to constantly deliver on our 5 core company values.
1. We Care about Safety - It is our goal for everyone working on our behalf to go home healthy and safe at the end of each and every day.
2. We lead with Integrity - Integrity is central to everything we do. Without it, we wouldn’t have the relationships with our clients, nor would we have built an enviable reputation within the industry.
3. We strive to be Better everyday - We take pride in everything we do. This involves a meticulous approach to our work, endeavouring to make each day better than the last.
4. We make a Positive Impact - We want to make the places we work in better; leaving a lasting infrastructure and social legacy. We believe in proactivity to maximise impact.
5. We Deliver to Grow - The successful delivery of frameworks and contracts feeds our ability to grow strategically and strengthen OCU to expand the business and capabilities even further.
About OCU
Established in 1994, OCU Group is one of the fastest growing utility engineering contractors in the UK, with a long successful track record in delivering customer-focused civil engineering solutions.
Working directly with many of the country’s leading blue-chip power, water, telecoms and rail clients, we are looking for the very best talent to join our growing team.
We pride ourselves on empowering our employees and offering opportunities for them to take control of their own personal development and career progression in a supportive environment.
We believe that being successful is a choice.
We choose to be successful.
We are OCU, ‘One Company United’.
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