Payroll Administrator - Pertemps Tamworth : Job Details

Excellent opportunity to work for an ever growing business. A varied role working in a fast paced environment , our client offers state of the art offices, a great team environment and the opportunity to carve a career .The role of the Payroll Administrator who will work with an established team is to :-To ensure all allocated payrolls are processed in an accurate and timely manner, in accordance service level agreements and specifications, whilst providing a specialist payroll support service and maximising efficiency and productivity .Key Responsibilities

• Process correct and timely salary payments across all allocated weekly and/or monthly payrolls, in accordance with service level agreements and specifications, following correct processes and agreed authorisation levels.

• Provide a specialist payroll support and advice service, including understanding the impact of events and actions on payslips and the ability to provide comprehensive and detailed payslip explanations.

• Ensure compliance with legislation in respect of processing of all payments to employees, as well as income tax, National Insurance, pensions and National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage.

The Critical Activities of the Role

• Processing of new starters, leavers, personal and job amendments, company sick pay and any other third party/ad-hoc payments and deductions where required.

• Attend regular team meetings/huddles in order to maintain an acceptable standard of service delivery.

• Ensure client payrolls are reconciled accurately and timely following set checks and balances, and management reporting is in line with client requirements.

• Generation and reconciliation of payments when required, including TT, BACS and cheque if applicable.

• Validate any exception and/or error reports for reasonableness.

• To understand the various client pension schemes and the impact of calculations on payslips, including Workplace Pensions Auto-Enrolment legislation and processes.

• Manage the appropriate approval levels, with supporting evidence, and to ensure sign off is made before BACS payments are arranged for submission.

• House-keeping data storage and paperwork, in line with customer requirements, General Data Protection Regulations and internal audit/business controls.

• Processing and validation of all tax and National Insurance documentation, in accordance with local legislation, including P6, P9, P45 and New Starter Declarations.

• Apply and validate statutory payments and processes, in line with legislative framework, including SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP, ShPP, Student Loans, Court Orders, Local Authority deductions and NMW/NLW.

• Carry out any other required administrative duties connected with the efficient delivery of payroll, including filing and scanning.

Key Skills

• Minimum of two years’ payroll experience, preferably in a multi-payroll environment and processing high volume, weekly payrolls.

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with a clear personal commitment to meeting end user requirements in order to deliver a high quality service.

• Highly analytical and attentive, with the ability to solve problems.

• Professional outlook and personality, with excellent customer service skills and the ability to operate under pressurised situations.

• Flexible outlook and approach to workload and working hours, to accommodate fast moving payrolls and projects and ever evolving processes and changes to legislation.

• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise progress of payrolls, effectively scheduling work to fit in with deadlines, in order to maximise productivity.

Desirable Skills

• Prior working knowledge of Northgate PS Enterprise payroll software.

• Processing of Real Time Information, including electronic return of Full Payment Submissions (FPS) and Employer Payment Summary (EPS).

• Experience of working with robust and methodical payroll processes.

• CIPP (or similar) payroll qualification.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products (particularly Word and Excel) to a reasonable standard.