Payroll and Client Automated Payments Administrator

Equiniti; Three Bridges; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial services company is seeking a detail-oriented administrator for its pensions payroll processing team. The ideal candidate will excel in accuracy, have advanced Excel skills, and demonstrate effective communication and organizational abilities. Responsibilities include providing excellent customer service, updating processes for compliance, and assisting with audit preparations. Join a team committed to delivering top-notch retirement solutions, with opportunities for learning and development, flexible benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Pension contributions matching up to 10%

Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible Benefits options

29 days holiday + bank holidays

Access to LinkedIn Learning

Qualifications

• Knowledge or previous experience in payroll or financial services environment desirable.
• Knowledge of UK RTI Tax reporting is a plus.
• Ability to identify issues in transactions, reports, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent service to customers as per agreed SLAs and KPIs.
• Update processes and documentation to adhere to audit standards.
• Assist with compliance and maintain ISO standards.

Skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Data entry skills

Organizational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Management Level

EQ Retirement Solutions is transforming the retirement and pensions markets with leading administration and technology solutions. With over 1200 employees globally, 189 years of knowledge and 11 million pension scheme members and policyholders, we are here to help people plan for a confident financial future by delivering innovative, reliable and customer-focused retirement services. Our teams are driven by a shared commitment to excellence, collaboration and making a real impact to the lives of our clients and customers.

Role Summary

This is an exciting and challenging position for a detailed oriented administrator to either create a career in pension’s payroll processing or continue their existing career within this field with the market leader.The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a clear focus on accuracy, ability to follow procedure and a good understanding of advanced excel activities such as : macros and formulae.

Please note that this role will require enhanced referencing (Met Police CTC Clearance, Armed Forces, BPSS and SC) and this process can take up to 6 months.

Core Duties / Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following :

Provide an excellent service to customers as per agreed SLAs and KPIs

Knowledge of payroll desirable but not essential

Ability to work across multiple systems

Reconciliation of payments and other outputs

Possess a process driven mindset, updating processes, checklists and other documentation where necessary and adhering to the annual audit updates on the same

Ability to identify potential problems and risks associated with bulk transactions, reports and systems

Assisting with the compliance and maintenance of ISO standard by adhering to the Quality Management System

Ability to identify and implement process improvements within the immediate area or work responsibility in order to improve workflows and customer service

Carry out project work and ad-hoc activities as determined by line management

General housekeeping duties, for example filing emails, keeping shared folders tidy

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience skills and behaviours :

Knowledge or previous experience of a payroll or financial Services environment desirable but not essential

Knowledge of UK RTI Tax reporting is desirable but not essential together with knowledge of Irish and IOM Tax reporting.

Thorough and meticulous with extreme attention to detail

Self-disciplined to follow documented instructions

Advanced and accurate data entry skills

Experience using Microsoft Office packages

Ability to identify and escape issues

Excellent communication skills responding to queries from both internal and external stakeholders

Good interpersonal skills within a team

Highly organised and self-motivated with regards to managing your own workload, with the ability to prioritise and hit extremely tight deadlines

Be aware of team workloads and readily available to assist colleagues

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme : counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.

Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

Time Off – Typically 29 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

Learning & Development – Investment in LinkedIn Learning for all colleagues.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.