Salary: £32,000 - £34,000 pa (depending on experience) plus benefits
Hours:9:00 am 5:30 pm Monday to Friday (40 hours per week)
Duration: Permanent
Location: Kettering office/hybrid
Reports to:Payroll Manager
The Company:
Were a flexible, forward-thinking brand, delivering innovation to the HR, Payroll and Health & Safety sector.
Our team of consultants work with SMEs to help them to manage their workforce by providing expert advice and services.
Job Purpose
This role is to deliver first class support to the Company in the delivery of its payroll support to clients across the UK. This includes processing payrolls and providing technical support and advice on matters pertaining to payroll systems for our clients.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Managing the end-to-end processing of clients payrolls for a portfolio of clients, including processing salary, PAYE, BACS and pensions payments in an accurate and timely manner.
- To update and maintain payroll records for clients ensuring compliance within legislation rules and regulations along with clients own terms and conditions.
- Responsible for liaising directly with key contacts for clients to ensure accuracy of payroll data and resolve payroll queries.
- To undertake all payroll administration including filing, setting up new starters, HMRC tax codes, student loan updates and attachment of earnings.
- To calculate termination payments for leavers and statutory sickness, maternity, paternity, shared paternal leave and adoption payments.
- To manually calculate statutory entitlements to check the accuracy of automated calculations.
- To calculate holiday entitlement and pay.
- To process P11Ds, P11d(b) and payrolling benefits.
- To process salary/pay increases and calculate any back pay owed.
- To process RTI submissions for clients, including NI checks, FPS and EPS submissions.
- To process Tax Year End submissions for clients including issuing P60s.
- To support the Payroll Manager and other team members with recommendations for improvement in processes etc.
- To deal courteously and efficiently with members of staff, clients, potential clients and external visitors, maintaining strict confidentiality at all times.
- To support with any required system updates, parallel runs, migrations, reconciliation and implementations.
- Any other ad hoc duties as required.
Person Specification
- Ideally CIPP qualified
- Previous experience in running an end-to-end service for multiple client payrolls, including producing P11Ds, P60S etc
- Experience in using payroll systems (we currently use SAGE)
- Demonstrable experience in managing employee and client queries in a client focussed manner
- Experience with dealing with third party service providers (e.g. pension schemes)
- Experience of setting up clients through HMRC portal, BACS etc
- GCSE Maths and English or equivalent
- The ability to write clear and concise English
- Be computer literate to a high standard and experience using MS Word and Excel and web-based HR database applications
- Excellent organisational and administration skills
- Excellent attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
- Have a professional and flexible attitude
- Have the ability to work under pressure
- Must be able to work under own initiative as well as part of a team
- Excellent communication skills both verbally and in writing
- Confidence to deal with people at all levels
What we offer in return:
In exchange for working for a fast-growing company, which is committed to developing and rewarding its passionate team, benefits include:
- Supportive and inclusive environment
- Competitive salary
- Training and development opportunities
- 25 days holiday, plus your Birthday day off
- Flexible holiday scheme to buy / sell holiday
- Health Cash Plan
- Life Assurance scheme (4 x salary)
- My Staff Shop discounts
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Gym membership subsidy
- Refer a friend or family member reward
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