We are currently supporting the recruitment of a temporary Payroll Specialist 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.
- £15.00 per hour
- Working hours Monday to Friday 9.00am 5.30pm (30 mins lunch) 40 hour working week
- This will be a hybrid role and will be 2/3 days in the office
- You will need to be immediately available for this position
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 & 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
