Payroll Administrator

The Methodist Church in Britain; Hartford Bridge; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full training and support

Confidential employee helpline

Blue Light membership with discounts

Refer-a-friend scheme

Career development opportunities

Access to the YLYW online employee门户

Job summary

Your Life Your Way, an adult social care organisation, is seeking a Payroll Administrator to join the payroll team. You will handle starters, leavers, pay changes, variable payments, monthly payroll reconciliation, BACS, tax-code updates and HMRC notifications, ensuring colleagues are paid accurately and on time.

The role works closely with Finance and HR and is the main contact for payroll queries across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Prev payroll administration experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Processing new starters, leavers, transfers, absence and pay changes
• Processing variable payments
• Checking and calculating timesheets and holiday payments
• Processing and reconciling monthly payrolls
• Processing colleague benefits
• Processing tax-code changes, P45s, new-starter declarations and HMRC notifications
• Completing payroll checks for accurate, right-first-time payments
• Reconciling payroll and preparing BACS files
• Processing attachment of earnings orders, court orders and other deductions
• Responding to payroll queries accurately and promptly
• Acting as a point of contact for payroll queries across the organisation
• Working closely with Finance and HR colleagues

Skills

Attention to detail

Payroll deadlines

Confidentiality

Communication skills

Payroll systems

Query resolution

Figures accuracy

Job description

This Payroll Administrator post sits in the payroll team at Your Life Your Way, an adult social care organisation, which keeps colleagues paid accurately and on time. The work covers starters, leavers, pay changes, variable payments, monthly payroll reconciliation, BACS files, tax-code and HMRC notifications, and deductions such as attachment of earnings orders. The role works closely with Finance and HR and is the main point of contact for payroll queries across the organisation. Previous payroll administration experience is essential.

What the job involves

• Processing new starters, leavers, transfers, absence and pay changes
• Processing variable payments
• Checking and calculating timesheets and holiday payments
• Processing and reconciling monthly payrolls
• Processing colleague benefits
• Processing tax-code changes, P45s, new-starter declarations and HMRC notifications
• Completing payroll checks for accurate, right-first-time payments
• Reconciling payroll and preparing BACS files
• Processing attachment of earnings orders, court orders and other deductions
• Responding to payroll queries accurately and promptly
• Acting as a point of contact for payroll queries across the organisation
• Working closely with Finance and HR colleagues

What’s required

Experience

• Previous payroll administration experience

Skills & knowledge

• Good attention to detail and confidence working with figures
• Working accurately to payroll deadlines and managing competing priorities
• Professional approach to confidential and sensitive information
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Confidence using payroll, HR or finance systems
• Identifying errors, investigating information and resolving queries

Other

• Helpful and responsive approach when dealing with colleagues
• Willingness to learn, develop and contribute to service improvement

Nice to have

• Full UK driving licence

What’s offered

• Full training and support
• Confidential employee helpline
• Blue Light membership with discounts from participating partners
• Refer-a-friend scheme
• Career development opportunities
• Access to the YLYW online employee portal