Payroll Specialist
Contract Day Rate – Inside IR35 – Hatfield – Hybrid Working
Reporting to the Senior Payroll Operations Lead, this role will complete the daily activities required to process payroll. Working as a member of a small team, the main purpose of the role is to process and deliver a timely and accurate end to end Payroll to the Senior Payroll Operations Lead for their final checking and sign-off.
About the Role
This will include employee and manager query handling, all operational tasks including third party payments, reports to business, supplementary payrolls, variables (incentives, pensions, bonuses, etc), through to control account reconciliations.
Responsibilities
* Process and deliver to the Senior Payroll Operations Lead, an accurate end to end Payroll(s), to include third party payments, reports to business, supplementary payrolls, returns through to control account reconciliations.
* Audit pay data pre and post commitment of payroll and validate confirmed reports.
* Perform daily payroll department operations, managing own workload.
* Manage help desk cases within agreed SLA’s whilst providing first-class customer service to employees and other stakeholders.
* Ensuring adherence and compliance to information security and GDPR requirements.
* Ensuring compliance with all payroll processes and controls to mitigate risk and ensure a 100% accurate payroll.
Required Skills
* Specialist knowledge of all processes within the Payroll team.
* Knowledge of payroll processes and controls and current payroll and benefits legislation.
* Excellent understanding and experience of quality checking data input, sign off process and authorisation.
* HMRC statutory return dates to include monthly and yearly deadlines.
* Understanding of key stakeholder practices and processes and their impact on the payroll (i.e. bonus schemes, share schemes, benefits provision, pension and incentive schemes).
* Attention to detail to mitigate risk of payroll errors with a drive to achieve 100% accuracy.
* Ideally CIPP qualified (Associate CIPP Payroll Technician Certificate or above) or working towards this.
* Ensure all casework is dealt with in an empathetic way with excellent customer service provided to all cases.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Employment type: Contract
Job function: Finance
Industry: Retail
Location: Hatfield, England, United Kingdom
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