Senior Payroll Business Partner

  • Warrington Borough Council
  • Warrington, Cheshire
  • Jul 25, 2025
Full time HR / Recruitment

Job Description

Internal applicants only
This vacancy is open to internal staff only

About us

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Payroll Team at Warrington Borough Council.

The team are looking for a Senior Payroll Business Partner who will play an important role in ensuring the effective delivery of payroll services to Council employees and its customers.

The role

Key responsibilities of this role include:

Working with the Payroll Services Manager and the Payroll Team Manager to

support and deliver payroll related transactional processes to ensure that the

monthly payroll is delivered to the required timescales.

Delivering a high quality, customer focussed service in the most effective and

efficient manner in line with statutory requirements.

Ensuring that payroll information is processed in line with documented procedures

and deadlines.

Providing support and training to Payroll Business Partners and Administrative

Assistants in dealing with Payroll queries and taking ownership of more complex

queries where required.

What's needed?

This is a very busy and demanding role, which requires high levels of customer service and IT skills. You must have the ability to prioritise your own workload and manage your time effectively to meet deadlines.

The Job Description and Person Specification are attached. If you are interested and meet the criteria, we would welcome your application.

As well as a competitive salary, working for us means you get:

  • 26 days annual holiday - raising to 31 after 5 years of service (pro-rata)
  • Access to our attractive and competitive benefits package
  • Access to our Health & Wellbeing Programme
Key Dates & Further Information

For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Nicola Kane, Payroll Services Manager, on .

Warrington Borough Council is a Disability Confident employer

Warrington Borough Council Offices, 1 Time Square, Warrington, WA1 2NT