• Full Time
  • Permanent
  • Kettering, Northamptonshire
  • Applications have closed.
  • £32,000 - £34,000 per annum
    • Kate Goodman

Payroll Specialist

Job Title: Payroll Specialist
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Location: Kettering, Northamptonshire
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  • £32,000 - £34,000 per annum
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    Contact Name: Kate Goodman
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    Job description:

    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