Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Payroll Executive

The Role

The Payroll team supports our colleagues across the business by ensuring their pay is processed seamlessly and easily. Our aim is to deliver a first class service, so our colleagues can keep doing what they do best!

The Payroll Executive role is integral to making this happen. You will be responsible for overseeing payroll for some of our 35,000 colleagues, working with the payroll associates to meet key deadlines, and to make sure payroll is delivered right first time and in the right way.

You will be a key player in supporting the team and the wider business. You will be responsible for training the team in legislative and process changes, with a view to becoming a subject matter expert. You will be able to break down processes and complex queries in a way that is understandable for the team and for our colleagues across the business. Putting the colleague first is at the heart of what we do.

Key Duties/Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the completion of payrolls that are part of a payroll service for 35,000 colleagues over 43 payrolls, including 5 Offshore payrolls, over weekly, lunar and monthly payrolls.
• You will be responsible for investigating and resolving complex queries from our colleagues across the business
• Supporting and training team members on payroll processes, legislative changes and colleague queries.
• Ensuring that payroll is processed right first time and in the right way, in line with internal policies and legislative requirements.
• Measure the success of the team, looking for ways to continuously improve our processes and accuracy and, with the support of management, putting these changes into place.
• Supporting key stakeholders and departments across the business and cascading data and reports as required.

Desirable skills:

• Experience of working with CoreHR payroll software
• Experience of training colleagues on new skills and processes
• Expert excel skills
• Exposure and experience of continuously improving processes
• CIPP or similar accredited

Essential skills:

• Previous experience of working with complex and high-volume payrolls
• A good to excellent understanding of tax and NI rules and able to calculate advances, arrears and additional payment values.
• Awareness of the administration of HMRC remittances, court orders, and employee benefits like pensions and healthcare
• A desire to learn and continuously improve
• A keen eye for detail and accuracy
• Being able to keep our colleagues at the centre of all you do
• Able to organise your time to meet key deadlines both by yourself and as part of the team
• Excellent communication skills to be able to break down pay queries to make it understandable for our colleagues and your team members

What can we offer you?

JD is a large, fast moving, exciting workplace. As part of the team we will offer you full training with our in house expertise on processing a variety of payrolls to deliver a first class service. We take pride in what we do and who we do it with.

JD champions talent and there are opportunities to hone and develop your skills and progress within your role and within the business. We offer study support and opportunities to undertake funded training that leaves you with recognised payroll qualifications. We also offer in house training to support your development of skills in areas like leadership and public speaking.

As a business, JD puts people at the centre. Through the JD foundation colleagues can take part in charity volunteering opportunities. The business supports your wellbeing through our departmental wellbeing champions, and health and wellbeing events and initiatives. Our employee forum also gives you a voice to tell us what's important to you and how we can support you.

Alongside that, we offer competitive benefits, including; staff discount at JD and all their fascias, discounted JD gym membership, 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) increasing with each year of service, hybrid working, pension scheme, free onsite secure parking, unlimited fruit, tea and coffee and an onsite subsidised canteen.

JD values diversity and inclusion and champions a culture where everyone feels, valued, included and celebrated.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Free parking
• Holiday Allowance
• Discretionary Bonus Scheme
• up to 50% Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation, depending on level of role
• Pension Scheme
• Flexible Working Hours
• Health plans – Depending on level of role
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of you applying, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.