Graduate Payroll Trainee - Peterborough - September 2025
Right now, we're looking for an apprentice student wanting to start their career as a trainee within our Payroll team.
This will be offered under a Level 5 CIPP apprenticeship and will take around 24 months to complete.
The candidate will be allocated their own portfolio of clients, processing multiple payrolls and the role will involve:
* Process all payrolls from start to finish
* Starters, Leavers and Permanent data changes
* Process variable data from clients
* Manage multiple deadlines for variable data and managing clients throughout their pay cycle
* Report processing and sending to clients
* Liaise with client and dealing with salary queries
* Dealing with queries from the client and HM Revenue & Customs
* Processing and calculating statutory payments such as SMP, SSP etc
* Manually calculating pro-rata payments such as holiday pay, hourly/daily rates of pay etc
* Keeping abreast of new legislation, supporting the team implement new procedures
* Ad hoc tasks as required
You will have the chance to grow, as well as receive managerial support, and you can expect your responsibilities to increase throughout your time with us. You will work in a friendly and progressive environment, building up your knowledge on all the intricacies of payroll including tax, national insurance, auto enrolment, holiday pay, maternity/paternity/adoption, sick pay and more.
You will also learn the different ways that someone can be paid through salary, hourly pay, overtime, commission, benefits, shares and salary sacrifice.
About You
A minimum of 6 (or B) in GCSE Maths and English Language (or equivalent).
Where potential meets personal meets you
You'll share our values by being collegiate and enthusiastic, whilst acting with integrity and striving for excellence.
You'll be friendly and approachable with a mindset to be committed, take accountability, and go the extra mile to deliver our signature service.
When you work with Saffery, you’re never a number. You’re you. Because we want everyone’s individual personality and style to shine through. And we care more, and ego less. We get on and we get on. You'll thrive in your close-knit team, delivering high quality in everything you do.
There’s genuine mutual respect here. A rewarding, reciprocal relationship that means we all get the best out of each other.
We’ll help you
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