Payroll Adminisrator
£15.46p/hr PAYE + Holidays
18 Months
Preston (Onsite initially moving to hybrid once integrated)
Inside IR35

We're seeking a skilled and dedicated Payroll Administrator to join our clients' dynamic finance team. Based within the Payroll Operations team and reporting to one of the Payroll Team Managers, this role requires a customer-focused approach to accurately administer complex, high-volume payrolls. The Payroll Administrator will be responsible for ensuring timely and accurate payroll processing, maintaining compliance with governance and audit procedures, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities:
• Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation and processing of high-volume and complex payrolls in line with SLAs and HMRC legislation.
• Logging any advances, errors, and overpayments, and reporting any known issues/defects to a Payroll Team Manager for timely review.
• Ensuring all work instructions and processes are regularly reviewed and remain compliant with governance and audit procedures. Proactively escalating any discrepancies or changes required.
• Supporting continuous improvement initiatives, highlighting new ideas and better ways of working.
• Regularly reviewing all Finance reconciliation items for areas of responsibility.
• Supporting internal/external payroll reviews/audits when required.
• Assisting in the training of team members as needed.
• Working with employees, business stakeholders, and internal/external teams to promptly resolve any business, employee, and third-party payroll-related queries, ensuring effective communication methods are used.
• Identifying and taking relevant preventative action to minimize under/overpayments.
• Prioritizing own workload and using initiative and problem-solving capabilities to provide a responsive payroll service at all times.
• Performing other duties as defined by the Payroll Team Manager and business.

Skills and Experience
Essential:
Education:
• GCSEs or equivalent in Mathematics and English, grades A-C
Experience:
• 2 years of knowledge and experience of UK Payroll
• Previous experience of working within a payroll service delivering multiple payrolls
• Payroll legislation knowledge, including an appreciation for future changes and the possible impact of these on a payroll function
• PC literacy, competent in Word, Excel & Outlook
• Excellent people skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to interrogate and analyse data demonstrating numeracy, accuracy, and attention to detail
• Ability to maintain strong relationships with external clients and internal colleagues.

Desirable:
• CIPP or equivalent payroll qualification
• Experience with Resource Link system or similar