The Associates Global
If you are a Payroll and HR Specialist in the hospitality space then this is an incredible opportunity for you to join a growing company with a friendly and sociable HR team. This is a new position in a business that has an exceptionally low staff turnover and it will see you work across multiple entities to run the Payroll and Benefits function as well as contribute to certain HR functions. You will receive training on the current system and take a leading role in helping the business implement a new Payroll system that will make life a great deal easier and be a valuable addition to your CV. This is a Hybrid role with 3 days a week in the office. The new, well-furnished offices are in Mayfair and offers views of Green Park. The role offers a Bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Dental, 25 days holiday and other perks. The focus of your role as The Payroll, Benefits & HR Specialist will be responsible for managing and overseeing the payroll across the Company's UK entities. This role is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, compliance with regulatory requirements, and effective administration of employee benefits programs. You will have experience of or desire to work in a fast-paced growth environment and be able to demonstrate experience and interest in the hospitality sector. Your responsibilities include: Payroll Management Process and manage end-to-end payroll across 2-5 entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Manage the different payroll cycles and requirements for each company, while ensuring each payroll runs smoothly and meets deadlines. Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, including but not limited to tax, National Insurance, and pension contributions. Manage employee records in the HR and payroll system and maintain up-to-date data for payroll processing. Calculate overtime, bonuses, commissions, and other variable payments, ensuring they are included correctly in the payroll. Build strong rapport with heads of department to ensure systems are updated in real-time to ensure accurate recording of absences, Annual leave etc. Ensure knowledge base is updated relating to all statutory payments and provide accurate advice and information to employees relating to these payments. Liaise with internal departments, including HR and finance, to ensure accurate employee records and deductions. Responsible for inputting salary sacrifice deductions and ensuring relevant documentation has been signed off. Resolve payroll-related inquiries from employees, providing prompt and clear responses. Prepare and submit payroll-related reports to senior management and external bodies, including HMRC and pension providers. Stay current with payroll legislation, tax changes, and other regulations to ensure compliance. Benefits Administration Assist in the management and calculation of benefits and allowances for employees, ensuring correct deductions. Administer UK employee benefits schemes, including but not limited to private medical insurance, dental, cycle to work, workplace nursery scheme and season ticket loans. Coordinate and manage pension scheme enrolment and compliance, including auto-enrolment and contribution processing in line with UK legislation. Track enhanced pension entitlements ensuring letters are issued to employees and this is updated in the payroll system. Serve as the key liaison with UK benefits providers and brokers to manage renewals, changes, and employee communications. Lead the annual benefits renewal and open enrolment process, ensuring effective communication and smooth implementation. Ensure compliance with all UK employment and benefits legislation, including P11D reporting and HMRC guidelines. Provide day-to-day support for employee benefits queries, including claims, coverage, and eligibility issues. HR Support & Employee Lifecycle: Manage the onboarding lifecycle for new hires, ensuring a smooth and efficient experience. Draft and send offer letters and onboarding documentation to new employees. Ensure all starter paperwork is completed accurately and follow up on any outstanding items. Enter new starters into the HRIS/people system and maintain accurate employee records. Collaborate with the HR team to support broader people operations and ensure consistent employee experience. Compliance & Reporting Ensure payroll and benefits processes comply with UK legislation, including HMRC requirements, PAYE, NI, and pension auto-enrolment regulations. Submit all statutory filings and returns accurately and on time, including RTI (Real Time Information) submissions, P60s, P45s, and P11Ds. Maintain compliance with employment and benefits legislation, such as the Employment Rights Act, GDPR, and Health and Safety regulations related to benefits. Support internal and external audits related to payroll and benefits. Prepare and submit Gender Pay Gap reporting. Other: To attend any training sessions as required. To always ensure a high standard of personal hygiene and appearance. To know and follow the Health& Safety at Work Act If you want to work in a role that will grow and offer advancement opportunities in time then this position will be an excellent choice. To be successful in this role you will need strong knowledge of payroll systems and software. Not essential but knowledge of Fourth or Dayforce would be an advantage. You will have to be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel. You will have to have excellent attention to detail as well as strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with employees and other departments.
If you are a Payroll and HR Specialist in the hospitality space then this is an incredible opportunity for you to join a growing company with a friendly and sociable HR team. This is a new position in a business that has an exceptionally low staff turnover and it will see you work across multiple entities to run the Payroll and Benefits function as well as contribute to certain HR functions. You will receive training on the current system and take a leading role in helping the business implement a new Payroll system that will make life a great deal easier and be a valuable addition to your CV. This is a Hybrid role with 3 days a week in the office. The new, well-furnished offices are in Mayfair and offers views of Green Park. The role offers a Bonus, Pension, Healthcare, Dental, 25 days holiday and other perks. The focus of your role as The Payroll, Benefits & HR Specialist will be responsible for managing and overseeing the payroll across the Company's UK entities. This role is responsible for ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, compliance with regulatory requirements, and effective administration of employee benefits programs. You will have experience of or desire to work in a fast-paced growth environment and be able to demonstrate experience and interest in the hospitality sector. Your responsibilities include: Payroll Management Process and manage end-to-end payroll across 2-5 entities, ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Manage the different payroll cycles and requirements for each company, while ensuring each payroll runs smoothly and meets deadlines. Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, including but not limited to tax, National Insurance, and pension contributions. Manage employee records in the HR and payroll system and maintain up-to-date data for payroll processing. Calculate overtime, bonuses, commissions, and other variable payments, ensuring they are included correctly in the payroll. Build strong rapport with heads of department to ensure systems are updated in real-time to ensure accurate recording of absences, Annual leave etc. Ensure knowledge base is updated relating to all statutory payments and provide accurate advice and information to employees relating to these payments. Liaise with internal departments, including HR and finance, to ensure accurate employee records and deductions. Responsible for inputting salary sacrifice deductions and ensuring relevant documentation has been signed off. Resolve payroll-related inquiries from employees, providing prompt and clear responses. Prepare and submit payroll-related reports to senior management and external bodies, including HMRC and pension providers. Stay current with payroll legislation, tax changes, and other regulations to ensure compliance. Benefits Administration Assist in the management and calculation of benefits and allowances for employees, ensuring correct deductions. Administer UK employee benefits schemes, including but not limited to private medical insurance, dental, cycle to work, workplace nursery scheme and season ticket loans. Coordinate and manage pension scheme enrolment and compliance, including auto-enrolment and contribution processing in line with UK legislation. Track enhanced pension entitlements ensuring letters are issued to employees and this is updated in the payroll system. Serve as the key liaison with UK benefits providers and brokers to manage renewals, changes, and employee communications. Lead the annual benefits renewal and open enrolment process, ensuring effective communication and smooth implementation. Ensure compliance with all UK employment and benefits legislation, including P11D reporting and HMRC guidelines. Provide day-to-day support for employee benefits queries, including claims, coverage, and eligibility issues. HR Support & Employee Lifecycle: Manage the onboarding lifecycle for new hires, ensuring a smooth and efficient experience. Draft and send offer letters and onboarding documentation to new employees. Ensure all starter paperwork is completed accurately and follow up on any outstanding items. Enter new starters into the HRIS/people system and maintain accurate employee records. Collaborate with the HR team to support broader people operations and ensure consistent employee experience. Compliance & Reporting Ensure payroll and benefits processes comply with UK legislation, including HMRC requirements, PAYE, NI, and pension auto-enrolment regulations. Submit all statutory filings and returns accurately and on time, including RTI (Real Time Information) submissions, P60s, P45s, and P11Ds. Maintain compliance with employment and benefits legislation, such as the Employment Rights Act, GDPR, and Health and Safety regulations related to benefits. Support internal and external audits related to payroll and benefits. Prepare and submit Gender Pay Gap reporting. Other: To attend any training sessions as required. To always ensure a high standard of personal hygiene and appearance. To know and follow the Health& Safety at Work Act If you want to work in a role that will grow and offer advancement opportunities in time then this position will be an excellent choice. To be successful in this role you will need strong knowledge of payroll systems and software. Not essential but knowledge of Fourth or Dayforce would be an advantage. You will have to be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel. You will have to have excellent attention to detail as well as strong communication and interpersonal skills to interact with employees and other departments.
The Associates Global
The Associates Global is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect with a Security focus to join a large, well-established organisation undergoing major digital transformation. The company has very low staff turnover and the relatively newly stood up Architecture practise has excellent sponsorship from the top down. This is a brand-new, business-critical role, offering the chance to set the strategic direction for cybersecurity architecture at scale. This Hybrid role (2 days in) in London will require you to be an excellent communicator with natural gravitas. Your stakeholders will cut across the organisation (including SLT) as well as external providers. You will use your experience to help shape a business that is exciting and uplifting in what they do. You'll work closely with a forward-thinking Enterprise Architecture (EA) team and collaborate with senior stakeholders across the CIO function. This is a role for someone who thrives in large-scale environments and wants to play a defining role in embedding secure-by-design principles into every stage of delivery. The Opportunity As the Enterprise Security Architect, you'll own the definition and implementation of enterprise-wide security architecture. You'll be responsible for designing strategies and frameworks that secure critical systems and services, spanning both on-premise and cloud environments. You'll also play a hands-on leadership role in mentoring solution and technical architects, ensuring security is a foundational part of the enterprise's long-term technology roadmap. Key Responsibilities Define and lead the development of the organisation's cybersecurity architecture strategy and roadmaps Translate business and technology strategies into security-focused architecture patterns Design and maintain conceptual and logical security architectures across multiple technology domains Support secure delivery of cloud and on-premise systems (Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, MuleSoft) Guide solution and technical architects on security principles, best practices, and assurance Contribute to architecture governance, standards, and documentation Partner with product, digital, data, finance, and HR teams to ensure secure system design Champion the adoption of emerging security technologies and practices Skills and Experience Proven experience as an Enterprise or Security Architect in complex environments Strong understanding of enterprise security frameworks, governance, and risk management Experience delivering secure architectures in cloud, hybrid, and legacy systems Hands-on knowledge of modelling tools and frameworks (UML, ArchiMate, Bizz design ideal) Broad technical knowledge across infrastructure, data, CRM, HR, and finance systems Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across business and IT teams Ability to work in highly regulated or high-compliance environments Experience with large enterprise transformation programmes Exposure to architectural assurance and governance processes Familiarity with integrated systems and database technologies (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) If you are an Enterprise Architect who wants to make a real difference to an organisations Security capability as well as work on major transformation in a business that is collaborative by nature and where you are truly valued as an individual, then this is definitely a role worth considering. Having worked with this business for a number of years and placing people across the organisation it is very evident that their culture is brilliant. Their work environment is demanding insofar as taking on technical challenges and requiring people to deliver collaboratively and they celebrate their wins as a team rather than a promotion race.
The Associates Global is seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect with a Security focus to join a large, well-established organisation undergoing major digital transformation. The company has very low staff turnover and the relatively newly stood up Architecture practise has excellent sponsorship from the top down. This is a brand-new, business-critical role, offering the chance to set the strategic direction for cybersecurity architecture at scale. This Hybrid role (2 days in) in London will require you to be an excellent communicator with natural gravitas. Your stakeholders will cut across the organisation (including SLT) as well as external providers. You will use your experience to help shape a business that is exciting and uplifting in what they do. You'll work closely with a forward-thinking Enterprise Architecture (EA) team and collaborate with senior stakeholders across the CIO function. This is a role for someone who thrives in large-scale environments and wants to play a defining role in embedding secure-by-design principles into every stage of delivery. The Opportunity As the Enterprise Security Architect, you'll own the definition and implementation of enterprise-wide security architecture. You'll be responsible for designing strategies and frameworks that secure critical systems and services, spanning both on-premise and cloud environments. You'll also play a hands-on leadership role in mentoring solution and technical architects, ensuring security is a foundational part of the enterprise's long-term technology roadmap. Key Responsibilities Define and lead the development of the organisation's cybersecurity architecture strategy and roadmaps Translate business and technology strategies into security-focused architecture patterns Design and maintain conceptual and logical security architectures across multiple technology domains Support secure delivery of cloud and on-premise systems (Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, MuleSoft) Guide solution and technical architects on security principles, best practices, and assurance Contribute to architecture governance, standards, and documentation Partner with product, digital, data, finance, and HR teams to ensure secure system design Champion the adoption of emerging security technologies and practices Skills and Experience Proven experience as an Enterprise or Security Architect in complex environments Strong understanding of enterprise security frameworks, governance, and risk management Experience delivering secure architectures in cloud, hybrid, and legacy systems Hands-on knowledge of modelling tools and frameworks (UML, ArchiMate, Bizz design ideal) Broad technical knowledge across infrastructure, data, CRM, HR, and finance systems Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across business and IT teams Ability to work in highly regulated or high-compliance environments Experience with large enterprise transformation programmes Exposure to architectural assurance and governance processes Familiarity with integrated systems and database technologies (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) If you are an Enterprise Architect who wants to make a real difference to an organisations Security capability as well as work on major transformation in a business that is collaborative by nature and where you are truly valued as an individual, then this is definitely a role worth considering. Having worked with this business for a number of years and placing people across the organisation it is very evident that their culture is brilliant. Their work environment is demanding insofar as taking on technical challenges and requiring people to deliver collaboratively and they celebrate their wins as a team rather than a promotion race.