Pay & Expenses
Who we are and what we do
The Payroll office is part of Human Resources and one of the University's central administrative support services. Our aim is to provide a first class service to all customers by:
- dealing with Payroll queries
- processing all Expenses and Fees payments for internal and external personnel
- providing advice on the reimbursement of relocation expenses.
How to contact us
Payroll reception is located on the 2nd floor of University House and is open from 9am - 5.30pm Monday to Thursday and from 9am - 4.30pm on Friday.
If you're unable to drop in, you can always email us at payroll at warwick dot ac dot uk or contact us on 024 7657 4444. Due to security reasons, there's certain information we can't provide if emails are received from personal/private email accounts.
We also have dedicated telephone numbers:
for the Payroll Team Ext 74444 (02476 574444)
for the Expenses Team Ext. 23000 (02476 523000).
Getting in touch with HMRC
If you don't have a National Insurance Number
Go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-national-insurance-number for details of how to apply
Useful links
News and updates
- Payroll, Pensions and HR Admin update (March 2017)
Scam emails
Please remember, HMRC does not communicate by email. If you receive an email from 'HMRC' notifying you of a tax refund or any other message, please delete it immediately, as it will be a scam. Take a look at HMRC's guidance on this.
Tax references
The University's tax reference is 190/U50.
The tax reference for Warwick University Enterprise Ltd (Unitemps) is 120/ZA76059.
Reference requests
For reference requests (e.g. re: mortgage/rent applications or salary information), we must have your written authority to divulge personal information to third parties. First you need to give the third party your written consent and they will then need to forward this to us, with their specific request.