Payroll Specialist

Portfolio Payroll Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Manchester is seeking a Payroll expert to join their dynamic team. This role involves managing high-volume payroll, providing support for payroll queries, and driving project initiatives. The successful candidate will enjoy a flexible working environment with excellent benefits, including matched pension and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Employer matched pension

On-site parking

Up to 24 days paid holiday

Hybrid working post-probation

Birthday off

Flexible working

Study support

Great incentives and social events

Qualifications

• 3+ years payroll experience required.
• Experience in high-volume payroll environments is essential.
• Bureau/umbrella payroll experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll for high volume starters and leavers.
• Provide advice on payroll queries and ensure timely payments.
• Oversee more junior team members and drive deadlines.

Skills

Excel

Payroll System experience

Attention to detail

Communication

Ability to work in fast-paced environment

Tools

Sage 50

Job description

Portfolio Payrolls are currently working with a large organisation in the Altrincham area who are currently recruiting for a Payroll expert to join their team. They provide an excellent working environment, work from home opportunity and other great incentives!

The title of the role may change depending on the level at which you join the team.

Key Duties/Tasks:

• Technical skills including Payroll System experience & excel skills
• You will get an opportunity to work on bureau/umbrella payroll
• Driving deadlines and check payroll of the more junior team members
• Support the busy payroll department high volume starters and leavers

• Experience dealing with multiple payrolls of varying shift patterns
• Must have very strong Excel (VLookUps/Pivot Tables)
• High volume, fast paced
• Using Sage 50 payroll system
• Delve into international payroll and UK payroll

• Provide comprehensive advice to employees in relation to payroll queries
• Ensuring all necessary payments are made within the deadlines set, for example Reconciliations.
• Opportunity to get involved with significant payroll projects
• Manual calculations

Desirable skills and attributes:

• 3+ years payroll experience ideally

• Previous payroll experience in a fast paced and high-volume environment in industries such as recruitment payroll
• Bureau/umbrella payroll experience preferred
• A keen eye for detail
• Enjoy working within a team
• Motivated to progress to management
• Supervisory experience advantageous
• Excellent communicator as you will be answering queries
• Confident with Excel
• Sage 50 payroll system experience ideally
• CIPP advantageous not essential

Benefits

• Employer matched pension
• parking on-site
• Up to 24 days paid holiday each year plus public holidays.
• Hybrid working post probation
• Birthday off
• Flexible working
• Study support
• Great incentives and socials events!

Normal working hours are 37.5 hours per week, 9:00am to 5.30pm with 1-hour unpaid break.

To hear more about this fantastic opportunity please feel free to give me a call on (phone number removed) and ask for Liam. Alternatively, please email (url removed) and I will get back to you imminently.

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