Payroll Administrator

Eurofins; Wolverhampton; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the laboratory services sector seeks a Payroll Specialist to manage payroll processes and ensure compliance with statutory requirements. This role offers hybrid working options, an emphasis on efficient service provision, and numerous employee benefits, including a comprehensive pension scheme and additional perks.

Benefits

Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)

Holiday Purchase Scheme

Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay

Company Pension Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Free car parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Access to Perkbox for savings

Qualifications

• Proven experience in payroll roles.
• Familiarity with Auto-Enrolment processes.
• Ability to handle confidential information.

Responsibilities

• Review payroll for accuracy and compliance.
• Generate payroll reports for HR and Finance.
• Resolve payroll queries and maintain manuals.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication

Organizational skills

Proactivity

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Payroll and Expenses system

Job description

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Working hours are Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Hybrid working is available.

• Review of payroll processing and amendments, in addition to performing manual payroll calculations, in a timely and accurate manner
• Review and checking of occupational, statutory payments & deductions
• Resolve payroll queries using payroll system/reports, collaborating with Finance, HR and Treasury teams to rectify any issues.
• Generate monthly payroll reports to support HR, Managers and Finance teams
• Answer employee payroll, pension & benefit queries via daily monitoring of payroll email inbox
• Administration, processing, and upload of monthly pension contributions
• Actively identifying opportunities to work more efficiently and to improve the service provision of the team, as well as contributing to the production of robust procedures.
• Maintain existing/create new payroll manuals for changing in day-to-day processes
• Ensure procedures are compliant with legal and audit requirements
• In addition, this role may be responsible for company expenses and ad hoc administrative duties relating to company benefit schemes such as employee benefits portal, life assurance, income protection and medical insurance policies, amongst others.

Qualifications

• Proven experience within a similar payroll position
• Experience of using a Payroll and Expenses system.
• Experience of working with multiple group PAYE’s would be beneficial
• Excellent attention to detail
• Self-sufficient, organised, and methodical with the ability to work to tight monthly deadlines
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Excel
• Excellent knowledge of Auto-Enrolment processes
• Confident with the ability to communicate and engage with all stakeholders, verbally and in writing
• A desire to thrive in a role that requires a positive, proactive and flexible attitude towards change
• Able to work in a secure and confidential environment
• Demonstrate a flexible approach towards changing business needs

Additional Information

At Eurofins we are growing, innovating and always learning. We celebrate the achievements of our employees through annual long service awards, recognise our colleagues special life events, and we are committed to charitable causes through global fundraising activities.

As a Eurofins employee you will benefit from:

• Life Assurance (4 times annual salary)
• Holiday Purchase Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Pay Scheme
• Company Pension Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential support.
• Free car parking
• Worldwide career opportunities
• Everyone who joins our team also gets access to Perkbox, allowing you to save money all year round. Whether its supermarket savings or days out, the daily coffee or a summer holiday – there’s something to suit everyone’s lifestyle.

What Happens Next
Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and it's requirements, this will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get you know your key skills and strengths.

Your data
As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date
We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

Weembracediversity! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being anEqual Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!