The role - Payroll Coordinator
Location – Leeds, LS27 0RY (Hybrid available, 3 days in office and 2 WFH, alternating weekly)
Hours – Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 17:00pm - 37.50 hours per week
Salary – up to £33k pa DOE
· 22 Holiday Days plus Bank Holidays
· Employee discounts via Perkbox
· Life Insurance
· Parking on site
· Cycle to work scheme
· Access to a virtual GP & access to a health & wellbeing app
As the Payroll Coordinator you will work closely with the HR Shared Services Manager to manage and process the monthly payroll, ensuring calculations and deductions have been processed correctly and promptly meeting strict deadlines. In this role you will be responsible for several payroll duties including processing statutory payments, calculating starter and leaver deductions and backpay, managing pensions activities, as well as exporting timesheet hours and carrying out a reconciliation to avoid any under/over payments of hours.
In addition, you will be the first point of contact for complex payroll queries and work closely with our finance department to produce data for audits and any ad hoc queries. You will also be required to liaise with our payroll software provider and raise cases where needed.
Requirements
· CIPP qualification or BA (Hons)
· Experience in running an end-to-end payroll
· Experience in processing pay for absences and statutory sick pay
· Confidence in answering complex payroll queries and the ability to communicate the response effectively to employees who are not payroll minded
· Experience gained in a busy HR department
· Knowledge of HR and payroll systems
· Knowledge of pensions processes
· Experience and ability of building strong customer relationships
· Good working knowledge of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, including vlookups and pivot tables
In return, we’ll provide you with full training once you start and make sure that you have everything you need to do a great job and be a part of the team