Senior Payroll Specialist

Salary: £28,800 – £31,200 per year

Our busy client is growing their team of payroll specialists. Our client supports businesses with payroll functions, and you would be working a busy outsource team in a highly successful accountancy firm. Our client is seeking someone with 5+ years payroll experience ideally for this role.

Your role:

• Responsible for the day to day administration of a portfolio of SME sized client payrolls, including RTI submissions and year end process
• Weekly, Fortnightly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual frequencies with differing levels of complexity
• Using knowledge of PAYE/NIC and statutory absence payments, for example, SMP,SAP, SPP, SHPP, SPBP and SSP
• Processing employee and employer pension contributions and subsequent submission to the Pension Provider of multiple and varying types of Pension Scheme
• Processing Payrolled BIK’s, Salary Sacrifice Schemes, Flexible Benefits and Stocks, Shares & ESPP
• Proactively keeping up to date with Payroll legislation and compliance
• Experience of liaising with HMRC
• Use own initiative to resolve issues and assist teams members where possible

The person:

• Must have at least 5-6 years+ experience, this is essential
• Working knowledge of STAR/IRIS Payroll Professional would be preferred but not essential
• Working knowledge of PayCircle would be great but not essential
• Working knowledge of QTAC ad HMRC Basic Tools
• Have obtained CIPP Qualification or equivalent
• Have excellent or advanced Microsoft Excel skills (VLOOKUP, PIVOT Tables, Text to Columns etc.)
• Full complete understanding of Statutory Deductions, Payments and Calculations
• Full complete understanding of Auto Enrolment Rules & Regulations
• Customer focused and a can do attitude is a must
• Experience of organising own work and strong ability to prioritise
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail and high accuracy
• Have excellent teamwork skills