Payroll Administrator

A1 Jobs are recruiting for a Payroll Administrator to join our client, a world class specialist in their field, a great opportunity to join a continuous growing business.

Roles and responsibilities

The successful applicant must have competent computer skills and experience of payroll processing.  An ability to communicate effectively and courteously with other people – both internal and external to the company – is a fundamental requirement for this post. 

The successful applicant must be able to take responsibility for their own workload meeting the specified deadlines.

Duties

• To take responsibility for the administration of the time and attendance system and to provide support to line managers and staff, as required.
• To take responsibility for the collation and upload of data to our payroll provider, including overtime, bonus, staff expenses, sick pay, long service awards and other allowances
• To review the draft payroll reports to ensure that the monthly payroll is calculated accurately.
• To ensure that any changes required as a result of the review process are uploaded to the payroll provider ensuring that the final payroll reports are accurate.
• To upload the payment files to the BACS payment system for employee pay, social security tax and other miscellaneous deductions on a timely basis.
• To ensure that pension amounts both employee and employer contributions are calculated accurately and uploaded to the pension provider and that contributions are paid to the provider on a timely basis.
• To raise any ad hoc payments as required eg wages advances
• To post journal entries for wages and various deductions on a monthly basis
• To ensure that the wages bank account is reconciled to the general ledger on a monthly basis.
• To ensure that the HMRC deductions accounts are reconciled to the general ledger on a monthly basis for each branch.
• To deal with ad hoc requests from outside agencies and government bodies
• To liaise with the internal and external auditors and satisfy their requests for reports and data, as required.
• To prepare p11ds and any supporting documentation and submit these to HMRC on time.
• To make the necessary NI payments resulting from the p11d work
• To provide payroll data on a confidential basis to the managing director, finance manager and HR manager when requested
• To provide backup cover for the processing of cash and credit card expenses

Hours of work

38.5 hours Monday – Friday