Senior Analyst & Project Manager (Payroll)

About us

Payroll & Pensions Services at King’s College London is a critical function within Financial Services, responsible for delivering accurate, timely and compliant payroll to a large and diverse workforce. Each month, the team ensures that over 11,000 staff are paid correctly, while administering complex pension arrangements across multiple schemes, including NHS, USS and SAUL.

Working closely with HR, Finance and departments across the university, the team plays a key role in maintaining data integrity, supporting colleagues, and continuously improving processes to meet the needs of a dynamic and complex organisation.

We are committed to providing a professional, reliable and customer-focused service, underpinned by strong technical expertise, collaboration and a culture that values accuracy, development and continuous improvement.

About the role

The role holder will need to be resilient, adaptable, positive and customer-centric in everything they do. Managing multiple projects including Work Force Management, using King’s Agile Working tool. You will overcome challenges to deliver an end-to-end implementation of defined projects primarily focused on payroll processes and transformation of payroll technologies.

There will also be a line of reporting directly to the Payroll Management team.

You will be required to develop and maintain agreed project plans, design and deploy the procedure which the business intends to use to complete payroll, managing all project or change activities. You will coordinate the resources planning and identify capacity constraints to support the delivery of the plan and take corrective action where necessary.

This is a full time role (35 hrs per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until July 2028

£53,947 to £63,350 per annum inclusive of London Weighting Allowance