Payroll Administrator - 12 month FTC

PA Consulting

West of England

On-site

GBP 28,000 - 36,000

Full time

14 days+
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Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare
25 days leave
Generous pension
Community initiatives
Annual bonus
PA share ownership
Cycle to work

Job summary

PA Consulting is seeking a Payroll Administrator to manage the monthly UK payroll using our in-house software, working as part of a small team to ensure timely, accurate payroll processing. The role emphasizes teamwork, responsiveness to queries, and involvement in year-end processes and policy reviews.

The successful candidate will participate in month-end reconciliations with HMRC and pension providers, with a hybrid work pattern requiring in-office or client-site presence at least 2 days per

Qualifications

  • Excellent payroll legislation knowledge from previous roles.
  • Strategic and forward-thinking approach to solutions.
  • Focus on finding ways to make processes more efficient.

Responsibilities

  • Manage monthly UK payroll using in-house software with two other administrators.
  • Ensure colleagues are paid on time and respond to queries.
  • Year-end returns, policy/procedure reviews, and reconciliation tasks.
  • Reconcile month-end payments with HMRC and pension provider.

Skills

Payroll legislation knowledge
Strategic thinking
Process improvement

Job description

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.

Job Description

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.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment.

Qualifications

About You:

  • You'll have gained excellent payroll legislation knowledge from your previous roles
  • You'll be a strategic and forward-thinker - focussing on finding the solution
  • Always looking at finding ways of making things more efficient

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Additional Information

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.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

  • Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
  • 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
  • Generous company pension scheme
  • Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
  • Annual performance-based bonus
  • PA share ownership
  • Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality.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 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 on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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