Payroll Administrator

SS&C Technologies; Basildon; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

SS&C Technologies is seeking a Payroll Administrator in Basildon for a 6-month FTC. The role supports UK and international payrolls via 3rd party vendors, using Workday HRIS and payroll data to deliver accurate, timely payrolls.

You will handle starter/leaver processing, respond to payroll queries, manage variable pay elements, and assist with year-end activities such as P60s, ensuring regulatory compliance and high-quality service.

Qualifications

• UK & Ireland payroll knowledge required.
• Experience using Workday HRIS for payroll data.
• Strong Excel skills and accuracy in data handling.
• Familiarity with year-end processes (P60) and payroll reconciliations.

Responsibilities

• Process and validate UK and international payrolls.
• Liaise with 3rd party payroll vendors to meet deadlines.
• Process new starters and leavers.
• Answer payroll queries from employees promptly.
• Administer variable pay elements (e.g. on-call, maternity).
• Handle 3rd party payments and payroll-related admin.
• Support year end processes (P60) and distributions for maternity leave.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Attention to detail

UK payroll knowledge

Tools

Workday HRIS

Payroll software

Job description

SS&C Financial Services – Payroll Administrator – Basildon 6 month FTC

About SS&C Technologies

SS&C is a global provider of investment, financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Named to Fortune 1000 list as top U.S. company based on revenue, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut and has 20,000+ employees in over 90 offices in 35 countries. Some 18,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest institutions to local firms, manage and account for their investments using SS&C's products and services.

A leading innovator in alternative investment technology solutions and services, SS&C is also home to the industry’s largest fund administrator: SS&C GlobeOp, helping funds of all sizes from start-ups to today's largest funds.

Named "Best Administrator: Technology" in the 2020 HFM US Services Awards. Across all of SS&C, we serve nearly $45 trillion in managed assets. We have assembled an exceptional team of fund accounting experts and equipped them with the industry’s leading technology, which SS&C built and supports.

Main purpose of role:

• Providing support and day to day cover for the SS&C payroll team with both International and UK payroll services through 3rd party payroll vendors.
• Utilising integrated HRIS (Workday) and manual data to provide an efficient and best in class service.

Area/Sub-function:

• Processing & validating a number of payrolls both UK and International.
• Liaising with 3rd party payroll vendor to ensure all payroll deadlines are met, issues resolved, and an accurate payroll delivered
• Processing new starter and leaver administration
• Answering payroll queries and resolving employee enquiries quickly and clearly
• Administration of variable pay elements (e.g. on-call, referral payments, maternity and long term sickness absence)
• Payroll administration relating to processing 3rd party payments.
• Support tax year end processes (e.g. P60 )
• Support employees and payroll process in respect of Jury Service & Maternity Leave (inc. distribution of maternity schedules)

Regulatory:

• To exercise due care and diligence, ensuring the areas the role is responsible for are organised and controlled.
• To uphold responsibilities for risk and business continuity practices as appropriate to the position the role holds within the organisation.
• To comply with the regulatory regimes in which SS&C operates, with particular consideration given to relevant, Data Protection and Financial Crime Prevention regulations, as appropriate to the above role.

Quality:

All employees are accountable for the delivery of a Quality service, driving for excellence in all their work activities:

• To be quality driven, aiming for 100% accuracy and timeliness of delivery.
• To effectively plan the way services are delivered so that all activity is directly related to providing quality services and meeting the expectations of the customer (internal and external).
• To continuously review processes and practices relating to the role and act as a catalyst for change and improvement in individual and team performance.
• To observe proper standards of market, business and personal conduct, demonstrating integrity in the execution of duties.
• To communicate and promote the values which reinforce and support a consistent quality culture.
• UK and Ireland payroll and payroll cycle knowledge
• Payroll system experience
• Tax and NI/PRSI regulatory knowledge in UK and Ireland
• Strong attention to details
• Advanced Excel skills
• Benefits administration

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

All offers of employment at SS&C are subject to background verification checks, including 5-year employment history, proof of eligibility to work in hiring location, proof of address, credit check and criminal record check (where permitted by local law). The accuracy of all information you submit as part of your application is vital and may be used as part of the background checking process should you be successful.