Part Time Payroll Assistant - Liberty Group : Job Details

Liberty has an exciting opportunity for a Part Time Payroll Assistant to join our team, as a work from home role.  You will be working on a part-time permanent basis, working 20 hours per week, over 5 days.  In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £14,250.00 (£28,500 FTE) Plus excellent benefits!

We are an award-winning property services company, specialising in repairs and maintenance, gas services and construction projects. We work with landlords, local authorities and private sector companies, servicing over a quarter of a million homes across the UK.

Our approach is built on providing exceptional quality, value for money services and we work in an agile work environment to maintain outstanding partnerships with our clients, customers and wider communities. We are committed to investing profits into social purpose projects, and into building and developing homes with the aim of improving lives.

The strength of our organisation lies in the quality of the people we work with.  We’re proud to employ the most talented, driven individuals within the property services sector.

Responsibilities for the Part Time Payroll Assistant will include: 

Undertake payroll administration and communication to employees, line managers, HR and third parties in relation to payroll and pension transactions

Provide employees direct communication to the payroll department to resolve any pay and pension related issues

Assist the payroll department in maintaining employees records and providing admin assistance

Ensure that all data received is processed ensuring cut off times for changes to payroll are kept

Record and calculate accurate information on payroll

Issue monthly P45’s, statutory forms and any other ad-hoc payroll related documentation

Prepare and distribute electronic payslips for each pay run and as and when required by employees

Responsible for applying any deduction of earnings or attachments received

Ensure the deduction matches the appropriate requested value

Ensure all child maintenance service requests are actioned

Input and check all employee information entered by HR

Be part of checking the overall payroll data ensuring accuracy and getting it ready for processing

Help to maintain the payroll inbox

Respond to payroll and pension related queries from employees

What we are looking for in our ideal Part Time Payroll Assistant:

Payroll experience, a minimum of 2 years is required. A good level of education, GCSE Maths & English.  A general understanding of end-to-end payroll, pension & PAYE deductions.  Experience of operating a computerised in-house payroll system. Good working knowledge of payroll and/or benefit processes, workflows and practices.

Strong administration experience along with good IT literacy including Outlook, Word, Excel and Access. A strong team player with a highly organised and methodical approach. The ability to coordinate, manage and balance your workload under pressure and provide an outstanding payroll service to the business.

We offer a range of benefits for a rewarding career including though not limited to:

• Pension scheme
• 11.5 days (23 FTE) Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Liberty Sense Awards – employees are nominated by colleagues for living the Liberty values, those who win receive a high street voucher
• YuLife, includes:
• Life Insurance/Death in service benefit – 2x annual salary value
• Smart Health (including round the clock access to 24/7 UK-based GPs)
• Best Doctors to provide a second opinion on complex cases or diagnosis
• Mental Health Support, 4-6 sessions with a psychologist or psychotherapist
• Online Health Check
• Nutrition consultations
• Online fitness program
• YuMatter+ Employee Assistance Programme designed to support mental, financial & professional wellbeing including up to 5 confidential sessions with a counsellor
• Free will writing
• Reward scheme for healthy behaviors to earn YuCoin which can be redeemed on the app for vouchers/rewards.
• Exclusive membership and wellbeing product discounts
• Medicash Health Cash Plan (optional to register, P11D tax value approx £11.60 per year however allows claims for up to £996 per year) includes:
• Claiming eligible cash back on dental or optical treatments, specialist consultations, tests or scans
• Discounted gym membership
• Savings on cinema tickets, travel, holidays & retail

Liberty strives to be a diverse and inclusive place where we can ALL be ourselves. We commit to achieving equal opportunities in employment for all suitably qualified candidates, through upholding our values of Passion, Openness, Respect and Trust, underpinned by Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement.

Liberty is a real living wage employer.

Please note, only candidates who have the right to work in the UK will be considered for this vacancy.

As part of our recruitment process all employees need to be vetted and undertake pre-employment checks.  For this role you may need to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, previously Criminal Records Bureau, prior to or upon commencing employment with Liberty.

If you have the desire to work in a busy and high performing team, why not join us as our Part Time Payroll Assistant, click “apply” below – we want to hear from you!

Closing date for applications is 7th February 2025 (we do however reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier depending on number of applications received).