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Date Added: Wed 01/01/2025

Payroll Administrator

Reading, UK
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Company: PAYROLL ELITE LTD

Job Type: Permanent, FullTime

Salary: £28,000 - £29,400 per annum

Payroll Elite have partnered with a global professional services company, who are currently looking for a Payroll Administrator. This position offers a fantastic opportunity to join an extremely reputable business, where you will learn, progress and work within an excellent team.

This is a Hybrid role with 1 day working in the office.

Duties:

  • Maintain a portfolio of client payrolls processing around 1000 employees.
  • An understanding of current PAYE and NIC legislation that affects payroll.
  • Ensure all starters, leavers, benefits and allowances information is entered on to the Payroll database and update the relevant spreadsheet to record all entries made
  • Calculate leavers pay when leaving mid-month
  • Calculation of statutory payments
  • Process P45 forms
  • Print and sort payslips for distribution
  • Run payroll reports
  • Ensure monthly salary payment for client payrolls are transferred to the correct accounts in a timely manner
  • Upload FPS and EPS reports to HMRC as required
  • Good understanding of the payroll software and its functionality
  • Respond to client queries regarding payroll in a professional and timely manner
  • Deal with HMRC correspondence enquiries
  • Maintain an up to date client status schedule
  • Deal with general administrative duties, as requested
  • Assist the Supervisors with BACS uploading.
  • Review / Quality Check Associates’ payrolls to ensure accuracy.
  • Resolve any issues with clients / deal with complaints / escalations
  • Periodically review payrolls to ensure effective processing

Skills:

  • Minimum of 6 months payroll experience
  • Experience with high volume payrolls
  • Dealt with high volume payslips, statutory payments, RTI submissions and PAYE.
  • A strong work ethic and willingness to assist other members of the team when required.
  • Able to multi-task and to prioritise payroll workload
  • Good interpersonal, communication and organisational skills
  • Have a knowledge of changes to legislation which effect payroll
  • Confident and competent in dealing with clients
  • Have a working knowledge of MS Office
  • Good time keeping/punctuality

Excellent Benefits include:

  • Holiday - 25 days leave - our holiday year runs from 1st July so this would be pro-rated in year one. You can also buy up to 10 days annual leave at the point of annual renewal.
  • Private Medical after 2 years’ service
  • Group pension - see below.
  • Income Protection 50% of salary
  • Life Assurance 4 x salary
  • We also offer a flexible benefits programme, this lets you select additional benefits while saving on tax and national insurance contributions. This ranges from childcare vouchers, dental to retail discounts.

Pension

  • All employees will be automatically enrolled into the plan at a level of 4% (Base salary) which will be matched by the firm. Paying a little more could help make a big difference to your choices at retirement. The firm will match up to 7% of your contributions and if you wish to pay more than 7% you could elect to pay special employer contributions (SECs) and the firm will match 10% of any SEC.
  • You are able to decrease contributions below 4% after you have been enrolled and the firm will match this reduced contribution

Flexible benefits could include:

  • Bike to work
  • Salary sacrifice for car arrangement
  • Travel insurance
  • Gym discounts
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