We are currently supporting the recruitment of a Senior Payroll position for our client based in Kettering. Our client works with SME organisation to deliver both HR and payroll services across the UK. You will be working in a small team and reporting to the Payroll Manager.
£32,000 - £34,000
Hybrid working role - 2/3 days in the office
Working hours Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm (30 mins lunch) - 40 hour working week
25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 'Birthday off'
Flexible holiday scheme to buy / sell holiday
Health cash plan
Life assurance scheme (4 x salary)
Employee assistance programme
Gym membership subsidy
Duties and responsibilities:
Completion of end-to-end processing of clients' payrolls for a portfolio of clients, including processing salary, PAYE, BACS and pensions payments
Updating and maintenance of payroll records for clients
Completion of payroll administration, setting up new starters, HMRC tax codes, attachment of earnings etc
Calculate termination payments for leavers and statutory sickness, maternity, paternity, shared paternal leave and adoption payments
Manually calculate statutory entitlements to check the accuracy of automated calculations
Calculation of holiday pay / entitlement
Process P11Ds, P11d(b) and payrolling benefits
Process salary/pay increases and calculate any back pay owed
Process RTI submissions for clients, including NI checks, FPS and EPS submissions
Process Tax Year End submissions for clients including issuing P60s
Support with any required system updates, parallel runs, migrations, reconciliation and implementations
Skills and experience required:
CIPP qualified / studying - desirable
Previous experience of end-to-end payroll for multiple clients' payrolls (Practice or Bureau)
Experience of payroll software - Sage Payroll being advantageous and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables and VLOOKUPs)
Experience of accounts payable / receivable is advantageous
A strong team ethic with good communication skills
Good attention to detail and the ability to organise and prioritise tasks to demanding deadlines
Must be well-organised and capable of working on various payrolls and internal / external clients
Pro-active approach to identifying problems and formulating solutions