Payroll Assistant

We are recruiting for a Payroll Administrator on contract to work for a leading Aviation organisation based in Broughton, Chester.

The role will require 3 days in their offices and 2 remotely

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & ACTIVITIES

• Be responsible for the accurate and timely running of all divisional payrolls from start to finish
• Be responsible for ensuring that all divisional payroll accounts with HMRC are correct, investigating any misbalances and dealing with remittances for all third parties.
• Provide expertise on escalated complex issues and queries for the HR and Payroll processing teams.
• Have a full understanding of the impact of Maternity/Paternity/Shared Parental leave/Sick pay on each divisional payroll to ensure compliance with statutory regulations.
• Have a full understanding of the P11D & P60 processes for all divisions to ensure that you can be both accountable for these key annual deliverables and deal with client and external body queries.
• Deal with HMRC in relation to Tax and National Insurance queries, this will include building a relationship with the relevant CRM.
• Executive population responsible for the contractual administration for the executive population using the Workday catch up user role.
• To be the focal point for managing and delivering the share scheme administration for all divisions.
• Proactively identify process improvements, engage with the relevant key stakeholders and own the full end to end process to ensure implementation.
• Stay up to date on relevant legislation and ensure that any forthcoming changes and potential impacts are highlighted to the leadership team.
• Where required delivering the details of these changes to the RO team as a whole if required.

Play a key and active part in the full change request process by demonstrating:

• An understanding of our payroll systems to enable you to support clients with required change request submissions.
• Become fully involved in the testing as required.
• Ensure that all required elements are fully tested.
• Demonstrate that you have reviewed testing evidence to ensure that all changes are both legally and payroll compliant.
• Be a key operational player within ad hoc projects by being an active participant in the project group, understanding clients' needs, understanding operational RO impacts and identifying and delivering relevant proposals and/or solutions

KEY QUALITIES

• Individuals must be both customer and results orientated with a sound logical approach to achieving tasks and objectives.
• Able to work using own initiative to develop effective solutions to problems.
• Must also be a team player and proactively assist other team members when needed.
• Have a strong 'personal branding' and demonstrate a 'can-do' attitude in all areas.
• Ability to work under pressure to agreed deadlines.
• Be able to work autonomously with minimum supervision, self-motivated.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, be well organised and have a flexible approach.
• Committed to support continuous improvements.
• Organisational and planning skills are an essential part of the role.
• Pro activity and ownership of issues.
• Utilising escalation routes as appropriate to ensure that customer service is maintained.

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

• Experience within a payroll environment.
• Experience of a computerised payroll system (SAP/Workday knowledge would be desirable).
• Knowledge of PAYE, SMP, SPP, SSP, Student Loans, Pensions and other deductions.
• Proven customer service experience both verbal and written.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Recognised payroll qualification (CIPP or equivalent) would be desirable.
• A Levels or higher qualification would be advantageous
  
• Understanding of payroll process for 500+ employees minimum
• Would suit a candidate who has worked on a payroll system for a large company
• SAP experience highly desirable
• Need to have a strong understanding of payroll legislation