Payroll Administrator

ACTIVATE GROUP LIMITED; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the automotive sector is seeking a Payroll Administrator to manage end-to-end payroll for multiple team members in a hybrid working environment. The ideal candidate will have strong payroll experience, excellent attention to detail, and must be able to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders. This role offers significant benefits including 33 days holiday and a personal health cash plan.

Benefits

33 days holiday

Personal health cash plan

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Life assurance

Free breakfasts

Birthday surprise

Responsibilities

• Process end-to-end monthly payroll for multiple PAYE payrolls.
• Review and add payroll data into the system.
• Process starters, leavers, and pay changes.
• Administer multiple pension schemes.
• Resolve pay queries from team members.

Skills

Payroll administration experience

Attention to detail

Payroll systems knowledge

Knowledge of payroll legislation

Discretion and integrity

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Fast-paced adaptability

Data analysis skills

Excel skills

Job description

Job title: Payroll Administrator

Department: People Team

Location: Halifax/Hybrid

Hours: 37.5 per week

We’re looking for a Payroll Administrator to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies.
Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Overall responsibility for processing payroll and ensuring that all team members are paid correctly and on time.

Key responsibilities

• Processing end to end monthly payroll for multiple PAYE payrolls (c1000 team members), ensuring that all team members are paid correctly and on time.
• Reviewing and adding payroll data into the system.
• Processing starters, leavers, pay changes, statutory payments and benefits.
• Action calculations where necessary for more complex situations including, holidays and pay adjustments.
• Processing and submitting relevant HMRC forms.
• Administering multiple pension schemes.
• Providing a range of payroll reports as and when required.
• Maintaining up to date guidance notes on payroll processes.
• Resolving pay queries from team members and people managers.
• Providing support across the People Operations team as required.
• Ad-hoc projects and requests to support business needs.

Skills and experience

• Experiences in payroll administration
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Experience of using and maintaining payroll systems; Cascade experience advantageous but not essential
• In-depth knowledge of payroll legislation
• Must demonstrate an unquestionable level of discretion, integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• First class communication skills and the ability to liaise with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Thrives in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment
• Data gathering, analysis and reporting skills
• Strong excel skills, including v-lookups and pivot tables

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Purpose

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.