Excellent opportunity to work for an ever growing business. A varied role working in a fast paced environment , our client offers state of the art offices, a great team environment and the opportunity to carve a career .
The role of the Payroll Administrator who will work with an established team is to :-
To ensure all allocated payrolls are processed in an accurate and timely manner, in accordance service level agreements and specifications, whilst providing a specialist payroll support service and maximising efficiency and productivity .
Key Responsibilities
- Process correct and timely salary payments across all allocated weekly and/or monthly payrolls, in accordance with service level agreements and specifications, following correct processes and agreed authorisation levels.
- Provide a specialist payroll support and advice service, including understanding the impact of events and actions on payslips and the ability to provide comprehensive and detailed payslip explanations.
- Ensure compliance with legislation in respect of processing of all payments to employees, as well as income tax, National Insurance, pensions and National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage.
The Critical Activities of the Role
- Processing of new starters, leavers, personal and job amendments, company sick pay and any other third party/ad-hoc payments and deductions where required.
- Attend regular team meetings/huddles in order to maintain an acceptable standard of service delivery.
- Ensure client payrolls are reconciled accurately and timely following set checks and balances, and management reporting is in line with client requirements.
- Generation and reconciliation of payments when required, including TT, BACS and cheque if applicable.
- Validate any exception and/or error reports for reasonableness.
- To understand the various client pension schemes and the impact of calculations on payslips, including Workplace Pensions Auto-Enrolment legislation and processes.
- Manage the appropriate approval levels, with supporting evidence, and to ensure sign off is made before BACS payments are arranged for submission.
- House-keeping data storage and paperwork, in line with customer requirements, General Data Protection Regulations and internal audit/business controls.
- Processing and validation of all tax and National Insurance documentation, in accordance with local legislation, including P6, P9, P45 and New Starter Declarations.
- Apply and validate statutory payments and processes, in line with legislative framework, including SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP, ShPP, Student Loans, Court Orders, Local Authority deductions and NMW/NLW.
- Carry out any other required administrative duties connected with the efficient delivery of payroll, including filing and scanning.
Key Skills
- Minimum of two years' payroll experience, preferably in a multi-payroll environment and processing high volume, weekly payrolls.
- Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with a clear personal commitment to meeting end user requirements in order to deliver a high quality service.
- Highly analytical and attentive, with the ability to solve problems.
- Professional outlook and personality, with excellent customer service skills and the ability to operate under pressurised situations.
- Flexible outlook and approach to workload and working hours, to accommodate fast moving payrolls and projects and ever evolving processes and changes to legislation.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and organise progress of payrolls, effectively scheduling work to fit in with deadlines, in order to maximise productivity.
Desirable Skills
- Prior working knowledge of Northgate PS Enterprise payroll software.
- Processing of Real Time Information, including electronic return of Full Payment Submissions (FPS) and Employer Payment Summary (EPS).
- Experience of working with robust and methodical payroll processes.
- CIPP (or similar) payroll qualification.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products (particularly Word and Excel) to a reasonable standard.