Payroll Administrator - 12 month FTC

PA Consulting Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

PA Consulting Group is seeking an exceptional Payroll Administrator to manage the monthly UK payroll using our in-house software. You will be part of a collaborative payroll team, ensuring timely and accurate payments to employees.

The role involves year-end processes, policy development, and reconciling payments with external agencies such as HMRC and our pension provider. Hybrid working is in place, with a two-day office expectation.

Qualifications

• Excellent payroll legislation knowledge from previous roles.
• Experience of the Dayforce system is highly advantageous.
• Strategic and forward-thinking with a focus on finding solutions.
• Always looking at finding ways of making things more efficient.
• Team player - adaptable and able to support with other tasks when required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the monthly UK payroll using our in-house software.
• Respond to payroll queries and support the Accounting Team.
• Year-end returns and validation of post-payroll outputs.
• Reconcile month-end payments to HMRC and pension provider.

Skills

Payroll legislation knowledge

Dayforce experience

Strategic thinking

Efficiency improvement

Team player

Tools

Dayforce

Job description

Global Innovation and Technology Centre, Back Lane, Melbourn, Hertfordshire, SG8 6DP, United Kingdom, Melbourn SG8 6DP, GB

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office a minimum of 2 days per week (usually Monday & Wednesday). However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

Would you like to work for an organisation that really makes a difference?

Our payroll team is looking for an exceptional payroll administrator. You'll be responsible for the monthly UK payroll which is managed using our in house software alongside two other payroll administrators making sure that our employees are paid on time.

You will be part of a team and play a central role in our organisation so it is important to be a team player - collaboration is key!

Part of the role will be making sure queries are answered and there is plenty of variety, no two days are the same.

You'll have the opportunity to get involved with:

Year-end returns - ensuring an efficient validation and reconciliation of post payroll output and the running of the costing files and month end reports for the Accounting Team.

Creating, reviewing new policies and procedures

Reconciliation of month end payments to external agencies, such as HMRC and our pension provider.

Qualifications

About You:

• You'll have gained excellent payroll legislation knowledge from your previous roles
• Experience of the Dayforce system is highly advantageous
• You'll be a strategic and forward-thinker - focussing on finding the solution
• Always looking at finding ways of making things more efficient
• Team player -adaptable and able to support with other tasks when required

Additional information

Life at PA

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us at: [e-mail]