Payroll Administrator

Salary: £30,000 – £37,800 per year

Payroll Elite are partnered with a leading international organisation to recruit a Payroll Associate to join their large friendly team responsible for producing its UK Payrolls on a 12 month contract covering maternity leave. This role is a Hybrid working.

What the successful candidate will be doing:

• Preparation and checking of high volume payrolls to help ensure that employees are paid accurately and on time.
• Working flexibly to set deadlines.
• Following detailed payroll checking procedures across all areas such as report production, payroll checking and correction, sickness processing, etc.
• Maintaining an allocation of stores by processing information received from People and Culture teams and providing an excellent service to all our customers.
• Learning and applying HMRC/Revenue legislation and company rules on calculating and entering company & statutory payments.
• Administration of new starters and leavers including processing starter declarations.
• Dealing with correspondence enquiries in a timely and efficient manner from stores, HMRC/Revenue and other third parties.
• Processing attachment of earnings orders.
• Calculating and administering holiday pay entitlement.
• Administering pension deductions and assisting with pension correspondence and queries.
• Learning to calculate small numbers of manual payments and repayments.
• Administration tasks such as filing and post-sorting.
• Writing and producing reports using a reporting system and using MS Excel to carry out some day to day duties.
• Learning new tasks associated with payroll processing and systems with a view to role development.
• In due course taking on additional responsibility for other tasks performed by the team (for example, international payroll support).

What we are looking for in a candidate:

Previous experience in a payroll position though full training can be offered to candidates demonstrating a ‘can do’, positive attitude.

Successful candidates will possess 5 or more GCSEs at grade C or above (or equivalent), be accurate and flexible and be comfortable working in a busy environment.

The ideal individual will be:

A competent team player with a positive attitude.

Organised with good attention to detail.

Motivated by ensuring high standards of performance and quality of work achieved.

Able to work in a fast paced environment whilst maintaining accuracy.

Benefits include:

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working
• 37.5 hours per week – choose when your work day starts and finishes outside of the core hours of 09.30hrs – 16.30hrs
• Option to finish from 14:00hrs on a Friday and start your weekend early
• You can build up a day off (like overtime but only if required)
• Healthcare: BUPA Corporate Scheme
• Pension: Contributory Pension Scheme;
• Annual Leave: 27 days p.a. plus 8 paid bank holidays with the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days annual leave at beginning of holiday year
• Additional Benefits: Tax Saver Tickets Scheme, Subsidised Cafeteria, Fitness Centre, Employee Assistance Programme and Online Learning & Development Courses