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Uk payroll administrator

Edinburgh
Permanent
activpayroll Ltd
Payroll administrator
Posted: 25 July
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Department Operations Employment Type Permanent Location Edinburgh, Scotland Workplace type Hybrid Reporting To UK Payroll Team Lead This role's hiring manager: Callum McAndrew View Callum's Profile

On a typical day, you'll be...

1. Acting as the focal point for a varied portfolio of payroll clients, delivering consistently fantastic customer service
2. Processing end-to-end UK and Irish payrolls of various headcount and pay complexity
3. Hosting and chairing regular governance calls with clients to track progress, review performance and identify opportunities for improvement
4. Preparing monthly governance reports
5. Ensuring that payroll manuals are relevant and updated regularly to reflect current processes
6. Preparing payroll calendars and checklists, ensuring that checking sheets are completed for every payroll processed
7. Answering queries from clients, partners and colleagues, troubleshooting and resolving where possible, or escalating more complex issues through our internal channels
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Does this sound like you?

8. Experience in UK Payroll processing, ideally with a CIPP qualification
9. A passion and aptitude for numbers, ideally gained from a role in a finance or payroll environment
10. A genuine and fervent commitment to delivering the highest standards of customer service, ready to go above and beyond to make sure the customer needs are at the heart of every action
11. An unusually high attention to detail, with the ability to spot errors or notice when things “just don’t look right” - and motivated to follow these through to resolution
12. Really good with databases, systems and software packages, especially Microsoft Excel
13. Action-oriented, willing to step up and be counted under pressure and seizes opportunities to make things work better for both customers and colleagues
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