Senior Payroll and Time & Attendance Officer chez The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company

DP World are currently recruiting for Senior Payroll & Time Attendance Officer to join our payroll team in Hinckley. The Senior Payroll and Time & Attendance Officer will play a key role in ensuring the accurate and timely processing of payroll for all employees. Although this is an in-house payroll function, it operates with the complexity and service expectations of a client payroll environment, supporting multiple internal stakeholders with varying payroll needs. 

About the role:

• Accurately process end-to-end in-house payroll across multiple departments or business units, with client-style service standards. 
• Ensure all statutory deductions (e.g., tax, National Insurance, pensions) are correctly applied and paid. 
• Review and reconcile payroll data and reports prior to payroll finalization. 
• Prepare and process adjustments, overtime, bonuses, and other variable payments. 
• Deliver payroll services to internal stakeholders with the same attention to service and detail as would be expected in a client payroll bureau.
• Serve as the primary administrator for UKG (Kronos) timekeeping systems, including configuration, maintenance, and upgrades. 
• Manage system security roles and user access. 
• Coordinate with IT, vendors, and third parties to resolve technical problems.
• Monitor daily exceptions, missed punches, and unapproved time. 
• Review and audit timekeeping data for accuracy prior to payroll processing.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, collective bargaining agreements, and relevant legislation (e.g., Working Time Regulations, holiday pay rules). 
• Identify and recommend process improvements to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
• Develop and deliver training for managers, supervisors, and employees on timekeeping best practices and system use. 
• Provide second-level support for complex queries and escalations from the HR or payroll team.
• Lead or support payroll system upgrades and implementations, acting as the UKG (Kronos) subject matter expert in cross-functional projects.
• Ensure payroll accuracy in line with HMRC and company policies, manage year-end processes (P60s, P11Ds), and produce required reports and audit trails.
• Serve as the first point of contact for payroll queries, mentor junior staff, and assist the Payroll Manager with team training and task delegation.
   

Your Key Skills:

• CIPP (Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals) qualification or equivalent (desirable).
• GCSEs or equivalent in Maths and English (essential).
• Proven experience in a payroll processing role, ideally within a senior or supervisory capacity.
• Experience working in an in-house payroll function with client-style service levels or in a client payroll bureau.  
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, HMRC requirements, and auto-enrolment. 
• Experience with payroll software systems (e.g., IRIS, Sage, ADP, or similar). 
• Experience managing payroll for multiple departments, entities, or cost centres. 
• Experience working with Time and Attendance software , UKG Kronos desirable 
• Excellent attention to detail and high level of accuracy. 
• Strong organisational and time management skills. 
• Ability to work collaboratively and support a team environment. 
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal. 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel (pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, etc.). 

   

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 103,000 employees spanning 75 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades. The DP World family comprises of syncreon, Imperial and P&O.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE

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