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Payroll Specialist

Vanilla Recruitment (UK) Ltd
Posted a day ago, valid for 16 days
Location

Kettering, Northamptonshire NN15 7JU, England

Salary

£32,000 - £34,000 per annum

Contract type

Full Time

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  • Our client in Kettering is seeking a Senior Payroll professional to join their small team, reporting to the Payroll Manager.
  • The position offers a salary range of £32,000 - £34,000 and requires previous experience in end-to-end payroll processing for multiple clients.
  • This hybrid role involves working 2 to 3 days in the office and has a 40-hour work week from Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:30 pm.
  • Benefits include 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays, a flexible holiday scheme, health cash plan, life assurance, and gym membership subsidy.
  • Candidates should be CIPP qualified or studying and possess strong communication skills, attention to detail, and experience with payroll software, particularly Sage Payroll.

We are currently supporting the recruitment of a Senior Payroll position for our client based in Kettering. Our client works with SME organisation to deliver both HR and payroll services across the UK. You will be working in a small team and reporting to the Payroll Manager.

  • 32,000 - 34,000
  • Hybrid working role - 2/3 days in the office
  • Working hours Monday to Friday 9.00am - 5.30pm (30 mins lunch) - 40 hour working week
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and 'Birthday off'
  • Flexible holiday scheme to buy / sell holiday
  • Health cash plan
  • Life assurance scheme (4 x salary)
  • Employee assistance programme
  • Gym membership subsidy


Duties and responsibilities:

  • Completion of end-to-end processing of clients' payrolls for a portfolio of clients, including processing salary, PAYE, BACS and pensions payments
  • Updating and maintenance of payroll records for clients
  • Completion of payroll administration, setting up new starters, HMRC tax codes, attachment of earnings etc
  • Calculate termination payments for leavers and statutory sickness, maternity, paternity, shared paternal leave and adoption payments
  • Manually calculate statutory entitlements to check the accuracy of automated calculations
  • Calculation of holiday pay / entitlement
  • Process P11Ds, P11d(b) and payrolling benefits
  • Process salary/pay increases and calculate any back pay owed
  • Process RTI submissions for clients, including NI checks, FPS and EPS submissions
  • Process Tax Year End submissions for clients including issuing P60s
  • Support with any required system updates, parallel runs, migrations, reconciliation and implementations


Skills and experience required:

  • CIPP qualified / studying - desirable
  • Previous experience of end-to-end payroll for multiple clients' payrolls (Practice or Bureau)
  • Experience of payroll software - Sage Payroll being advantageous and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables and VLOOKUPs)
  • Experience of accounts payable / receivable is advantageous
  • A strong team ethic with good communication skills
  • Good attention to detail and the ability to organise and prioritise tasks to demanding deadlines
  • Must be well-organised and capable of working on various payrolls and internal / external clients
  • Pro-active approach to identifying problems and formulating solutions

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