HR and Payroll

  • Yolk Recruitment
  • Port Talbot, West Glamorgan
  • Feb 19, 2026
Full time HR / Recruitment

Job Description

HR & Payroll Specialist- up to 40,000

Yolk Recruitment is supporting a well-established manufacturing business in Port Talbot to recruit a HR & Payroll Specialist. This is a hands-on role combining end-to-end payroll delivery with broad generalist HR support for managers and employees across the site.

You'll be the main point of contact for UK payroll and a key part of the local HR team, supporting day-to-day people matters as well as wider HR projects and process improvement. This role includes line management responsibility for an HR Advisor.

What you'll be doing:

Payroll

  • Running end-to-end UK payroll on a weekly, fortnightly and/or monthly basis
  • Ensuring salaries, overtime, statutory payments and deductions are processed accurately
  • Managing workplace pensions, including auto-enrolment
  • Submitting RTI returns to HMRC in line with deadlines
  • Processing starters, leavers, pay changes and contractual variations
  • Dealing with payroll queries from employees in a professional and timely way
  • Liaising with external payroll, audit and pension providers when required

HR Support

  • Providing a proactive, first-line HR service to managers and employees
  • Advising and coaching managers on employee relations matters, supporting informal resolution where appropriate
  • Acting as a first point of contact for HR queries and providing practical, compliant advice in line with policies and current legislation
  • Supporting the full employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, absence management, performance management, learning and development, pay and benefits, and employee relations, working closely with the Senior HR Advisor
  • Reviewing HR processes and data to identify improvements and make recommendations to the management team
  • Working closely with HR colleagues to drive consistency and good practice
  • Ensuring appropriate controls are in place across key HR and payroll processes
  • Supporting and delivering HR projects in line with agreed business priorities

What we're looking for

  • Previous experience in a combined HR and payroll role
  • Degree level education or equivalent
  • CIPP qualification (or working towards)
  • CIPD Level 3 (or working towards Level 5)
  • Experience of managing auto-enrolment pensions

What you will get in return:

  • Salary of up to 40,000
  • Full-time (39 hours per week)
  • Company Bonus scheme
  • 25 days Holiday increased with length of service up to 30 days.
  • Tech Loan Scheme
  • Ikea Loan Scheme
  • Cycle to Work Loan Scheme
  • Private Medical Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
  • Flexitime
  • Company Pension (3% ER Contribution) however Salary Sacrifice is available.