Payroll Specialist

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