Mpeople recruitment are recruiting on behalf of our client who are a extremely well established manufacturing business based in Royton for a Pensions & Payroll Administrator.
Role: Payroll Specialist
Salary: £30,000 – 3-6 months contract with the possibility to be extended.
Hours: Monday – Thursday 9am – 5pm (30mins for lunch) & Friday – 9am – 4:30 (30mins for lunch)
Position Summary:
This role will be responsible for processing the monthly payroll and deal with payroll and pension queries.
Responsibilities:
- Administering Weekly / Monthly Payrolls with 100 associates.
- Complete end-to-end payroll process and reconciliation are from Time & Attendance inputs to Net Pay. Including any clocking exceptions that are dealt with daily.
- Defined Contribution Auto Enrolment compliance.
- Period end & yearend processing and analysis (inc P11’ds & P60’s)
- Calculating and recording the statutory payments and deductions
- Attachment of earnings processing
- Investigating payroll inquiries, providing assistance and advice to staff and external bodies.
- Leavers and new starters processing
- Undertaking calculations relating to payroll queries, overpayments, and underpayments,
- Prepare various payroll reports.
- Ability to manually calculate payroll tax, SSP, SMP, Company sick leave
- Distributing payslips
- Pension Administration – Defined Benefit Scheme, New Pension Starters, Leavers, administration in line with Pension rules. Liaison between associates and external administrators. Pensions monthly reporting and Y/E reporting to all required bodies, eg Administrator, HMRC, Associates.
- Pension Administration
- GCSE’s or equivalent in Maths and English
- Experience of working in a SOX environment advantage but not essential.
- Must have 5 years experience running end to end payroll process
- Excel/Pivot table experience essential
- SAP experience is desirable but not essential
- Accurate data entry – aim 100% payroll accuracy
- High level of interpersonal skills
- Customer-orientated approach
- Self-motivated and able to meet deadlines without direct, daily supervision.
- Able to prioritise workload to meet key processing deadlines.
- Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
- Demonstrable ability to solve queries
- Excellent attention to detail, numerate, and take pride in your work.
- Able to work effectively under pressure.
- Flexible and able to demonstrate lots of initiative and a proactive approach to work.
- Excellent communication skills at all levels of the business.
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