Part Time Payroll Administrator

JAM Recruitment Ltd; Reading; On-site; GBP 16,000 - 17,000; Part time

Job summary

Pertemps Reading is seeking a Part Time Payroll Administrator in Reading to process salary payments for weekly and monthly payrolls, ensuring accuracy and SLA adherence.

You will work Monday, Tuesday and Friday with specific hours, join an established team, handle high-volume payroll tasks, and provide specialist payroll support to maximise productivity.

This role offers a 23.5-hour week and a salary in the £15,532–£17,108 range per annum.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two years' payroll experience.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written.
• Highly analytical and attentive, with the ability to solve problems.
• Flexible outlook and approach to workload and working hours.

Responsibilities

• Process correct and timely salary payments across weekly and monthly payrolls.
• Provide specialist payroll support and advice, including payslip explanations.
• Process new starters, leavers, amendments, and deductions as required.
• Attend regular team meetings to maintain service delivery standards.
• Reconcile client payrolls and ensure reporting aligns with client requirements.
• Validate exception and error reports for reasonableness.
• House-keeping data storage and paperwork per GDPR and audits.
• Carry out administrative duties related to payroll delivery.

Skills

Payroll

Numerical skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Analytical

Customer service

Planning

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Word

Job description

The Part Time Payroll Administrator, based in Reading, will process salary payments for weekly and monthly payrolls, ensuring accuracy and adherence to service level agreements.

Working Monday, Tuesday (08:00-17:00), and Friday (08:00-16:30) with a one-hour lunch break, totalling 23.5 hours per week, this role supports an established team.

Key responsibilities include timely payroll processing, providing specialist support, and maximising productivity.

Offered by Pertemps Reading, the position carries a salary between £15,532 and £17,108 per annum. Candidates should possess strong numerical skills and attention to detail. This contract is part-time. Pertemps Reading are currently looking for a Part Time Payroll Administrator to join our busy office. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a team of experienced consultants and administrators in a rewarding environment.

Hours Mon & Tue - 0800-1700, Fri - 0800-1630, 1hr lunch = 23.5hrs

The role of the Payroll Administrator who will work with an established team is to ensure all allocated payrolls are processed in an accurate and timely manner, in accordance service level agreements and specifications, whilst providing a specialist payroll support service and maximising efficiency and productivity.

As a Payroll Administrator, you will be responsible for:

• Process correct and timely salary payments across all allocated weekly and/or monthly payrolls, in accordance with service level agreements and specifications, following correct processes and agreed authorisation levels.
• Provide a specialist payroll support and advice service, including understanding the impact of events and actions on payslips and the ability to provide comprehensive and detailed payslip explanations.
• Processing of new starters, leavers, personal and job amendments, company sick pay and any other third party/ad-hoc payments and deductions where required.
• Attend regular team meetings/huddles in order to maintain an acceptable standard of service delivery.
• Ensure client payrolls are reconciled accurately and timely following set checks and balances, and management reporting is in line with client requirements
• Validate any exception and/or error reports for reasonableness.
• House-keeping data storage and paperwork, in line with customer requirements, General Data Protection Regulations and internal audit/business controls.
• Carry out any other required administrative duties connected with the efficient delivery of payroll, including filing and scanning.

To be considered for this position, you should possess the following:

• Minimum of two years' payroll experience, preferably in a multi-payroll environment and processing high volume, weekly payrolls.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with a clear personal commitment to meeting end user requirements in order to deliver a high-quality service.
• Highly analytical and attentive, with the ability to solve problems.
• Professional outlook and personality, with excellent customer service skills and the ability to operate under pressurised situations.
• Flexible outlook and approach to workload and working hours, to accommodate fast moving payrolls and projects and ever evolving processes and changes to legislation.
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise progress of payrolls, effectively scheduling work to fit in with deadlines, in order to maximise productivity.

Desirable Skills

• Experience of working with robust and methodical payroll processes.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products (particularly Word and Excel) to a reasonable standard