Payroll Administrator

Vertu Motors; England; On-site; GBP 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive retailer in the UK seeks an experienced payroller to join their team. This full-time role involves processing monthly payroll for 1,200 employees and managing payroll queries. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills and proficiency in payroll systems. We offer a competitive salary and a range of benefits, including enhanced maternity and paternity leave, ensuring an exceptional working environment.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Access to online rewards platform

Preferential Service Rates

Colleague Purchase Scheme

Share Incentive Scheme

Pension

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll processing is essential.
• Competence in manual calculations and payroll software is required.
• Exceptional communication skills needed.

Responsibilities

• Process end-to-end monthly payroll for 1,200 colleagues.
• Manage payroll queries and manual payments.
• Review statutory payments including Maternity and Paternity.

Skills

Communication

Manual payroll calculations

Excel

Education

CIPP qualified

Tools

PeopleXD (Access)

Success Factors (SAP)

Oracle

Dayforce (Ceridian)

Workday

Job description

Vertu House Gateshead

As one of the largest Motor Retailers in the UK, Vertu Motors’ continued success is based on strong performance, growth and leadership. Our Mission Statement "To deliver an outstanding customer motoring experience through honesty and trust" is central to the role of any role in our business, ensuring our customers receive the right experience for them.

We have a exciting opportunity for an experienced payroller to join our in house payroll team. This role will assist in the processing of our monthly payroll for approximately 8000 colleagues. This is a full time working 37.5 hours per week with a salary of £26,000.

Responsibility and Duties

• Payroll Processing
• Accurate processing of a end to end monthly payroll of circa 1,200 colleagues
• Review, manage and resolve payroll queries including the calculation and raising of manual payments where required and ensuring they are all accurately recorded
• Good understanding of statutory payments including Maternity, Paternity & Shared Parental leave
• Experience of full end to end payroll preferred

The Ideal Candidate

• Previous experience working as part of a payroll team is essential
• Must have exceptional communication skills
• Must be competent in performing manual payroll calculations
• Ability to meet strict deadlines while maintaining composure
• Experience of operating a modern payroll software package such as PeopleXD (Access), Success Factors (SAP), Oracle, Dayforce (Ceridian) or Workday
• Candidate must be experienced in Excel, knowledge of VLOOKUP’s is also required
• CIPP qualified is desirable but not essential

We are proud to be the Motor Retailer who invests more in our colleague's personal development than any other, so if you are successful, you can look forward to on-going training opportunities that provide you with the right career path, career progression and a range of benefits you would expect from an employer of choice which includes:

• 25 days holiday rising with length of service - plus bank holidays
• Access to our online rewards platform giving you cash back and discounts for multiple retailers
• Preferential Service Rates
• Colleague Purchase Scheme
• Share Incentive Scheme
• Pension
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity

If your application is successful, we will need to complete employment checks prior to you starting with us. Your role will include us verifying your recent employment, credit history and a criminal record check.

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In Short

• Industry Automotive
• Founded 2006
• Location United Kingdom
• Company size 5000+

Who we are

Vertu Motors plc was formed in late 2006 by a small team who were passionate about creating a new and highly successful motor retail business built firmly on one thing... its people. Over the last 14 years we have firmly established ourselves as one of the leading motor retailers in the UK, with turnover exceeding 3 billion and with over 5,500 engaged colleagues in over 150 retail outlets, we are a major player in the market. Although the team is now much bigger the passion and determination to succeed and be the best is stronger than ever. We are now the 5th largest motor retailer in the UK and the future will see more growth, greater success and more opportunities for our colleagues to develop their careers.

Why work for us?

We believe that in order to be the best you need to have the best people in your team. You provide them with the highest quality training, reward them well and give them the opportunity to develop themselves and their career. These are cornerstones of how we run the Group and we deliver them to all colleagues today. What do we ask for in return? Well, it's simple really. We want Talent, Drive, Energy, Attitude and Character from you. If you have all of these then you will succeed with us. You can look forward to ongoing training opportunities and long-term career progression. Our training and development programs are recognised for their excellence and in addition to our comprehensive internal programs we partner with the Dale Carnegie Institute for our management development programmes. As you would expect from an employer of choice, we also offer a range of benefits, including a competitive salary with performance-related bonuses, share incentive plan and contributory pension scheme and rewards platform. You will also receive preferential rates on vehicle and parts purchases and servicing.

Our Values

Our mission is to deliver an outstanding customer motoring experience through honesty and trust and it's important that our colleagues strive to maintain and build upon our reputation for delivering exactly that.

As a Group we place a big focus on our Core Values - Passion, Respect, Professionalism, Integrity, Recognition, Opportunity and Commitment.

We are looking for individuals withtalent, drive, energy, attitudeandcharacterto come and join our team - if you hold these five unteachables, then you’ll be a perfect fit!