Payroll Specialist

CE Back Office; Lethbridge; Hybrid; CAD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a Payroll Specialist to join a dynamic consultancy team. This role involves managing end-to-end payroll processes for multiple clients in a fast-paced environment. You will work collaboratively with a supportive payroll team, ensuring compliance and accuracy in payroll administration. The position offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility while being part of a successful organization that values growth and innovation. If you're passionate about payroll and ready to take the next step in your career, this is the perfect role for you!

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll administration or as a payroll specialist.
• Strong understanding of payroll regulations and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll inbox and respond to HR and employee queries.
• Prepare payroll imports and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Generate reports and assist clients with payroll-related ideas.

Skills

Mathematics Skills

Manual Payroll Calculations

Excel Proficiency

Strong Communication Skills

Payroll Processing

Education

Relevant Payroll Qualification

Tools

IRIS Payroll Professional

Job description

About the Job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Payroll Specialist to join our team in South Cheshire working in a payroll bureau and consultancy environment.

The role will suit an experienced payroll specialist or someone with strong payroll administration experience looking to step up into a payroll specialist role.

This is a fast-paced role managing the end-to-end payroll of multiple client payrolls. You will be working alongside the wider payroll team at CE Back Office providing support to team members where required. This is a full-time position although part-time hours would be considered.

Location: Hybrid - Based on the Nantwich office on a Tuesday and Thursday each week.

Salary: Dependant on experience.

Job Purpose:

• To manage payroll inbox and respond to queries from HR, Managers, Employees, Third Party Suppliers.
• Prepare payroll imports and changes on time and upload them to the payroll system.
• To review payroll data including manual checks, NMW compliance, and prepare sign-off reports.
• Prepare and upload third-party reports.
• To ensure payroll compliance.
• To complete annual payroll tasks including year-end processing, P11D submissions, and PSA reporting.
• Generating reports as required.
• Recognise and suggest ideas for clients in ways that can help support their staff or business where appropriate.

Knowledge:

• Understand and complete manual payroll calculations.
• Payroll regulations including ITEPTA, Pension regulations, WTR, and AWR.
• Data Protection.
• NMW.
• Knowledge of and calculations of statutory payments.
• Understand and administer employee benefits and expenses.
• Understanding of termination and redundancy payments along with effective management of earnings for NI and Tax purposes.
• Understanding of pension schemes including salary sacrifice schemes.
• Understanding of Directors NI.
• Understanding of SIP schemes and LTIPs.

Required Skills:

You will require the following skills:

• Strong mathematics skills and the ability to carry out manual payroll calculations.
• Ability to run manual payroll calculations to include tax, NIC, student loans, and pension deductions.
• Ability to process payroll from end to end including year-end procedures.
• Ability to use Excel including use of formulas such as v look-ups and pivot tables.
• Strong written and verbal communication.
• Ideally, hold a relevant payroll qualification.
• Experience of IRIS Payroll Professional is an advantage but not essential as full training will be given.

About CE Back Office

CE Back Office are a successful and fast-growing consultancy, who specialise in client-side support to enable and deliver HR and payroll transformations globally enabled by market-leading technology. We work across multiple industries, sectors and technologies to help our global clients prepare, deliver and optimise their transformation. We typically implement market-leading HR technology such as Oracle HCM, Workday, Ceridian or SAP SuccessFactors for global organisations. Working within the CE team you will learn, grow and progress in a culture that is supportive and collaborative whilst using best-in-class methods. Our clients recognise us for the quality of our work we deliver. If you are looking for your next career challenge whilst working with industry experts then this is the perfect opportunity for you.