Payroll Specialist

Global Payments; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in payment solutions seeks a Payroll Administrator in Milton Keynes. The role involves processing high-volume payroll, managing employee time and attendance, and ensuring compliance with payroll tax laws. Ideal candidates will have payroll experience and the ability to utilize HRIS systems effectively.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years relevant experience.
• Payroll experience and FPC/CPP certification preferred.
• Ability to handle payroll discrepancies.

Responsibilities

• Processes high-volume payroll for corporate and subsidiaries.
• Prepares reports for earnings, taxes, and audits.
• Assists team members with payroll-related questions.

Skills

Payroll and HRIS knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

Technical ability - Microsoft Office

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance/Accounting

Tools

Human Resource Information Systems

Job description

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services. Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results. We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions. Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow.

Summary of This Role

Processes high-volume payroll for corporate location and multiple subsidiaries on a semi-monthly, biweekly and/or monthly basis. Maintains, processes, and verifies employee time and attendance detail, manually processes miscellaneous payroll adjusting entries, processes garnishment, child support, and tax levy payments. Prepares, processes, and maintains various other payroll-related matters and employee benefits such as 401(k) and flexible spending accounts.

What Part Will You Play?

• Issues pay to employees by entering manual adjustments, calculating earnings and deductions in accordance with established practices and guidelines. Compiles data to process payroll by polling electronic time clocks, preparing computer input forms, and reviewing the downloads for completeness and accuracy. Prepares and completes garnishment questionnaires.
• Provides information and prepares reports for various areas of the organization and managers, by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and nontaxable wages, for funding, general ledger entry, trend analysis, tax reporting, and audit purposes.
• Employs a general understanding of State and Federal payroll tax laws, wage regulations, labor laws, and withholding order administration to provide assistance to team members with payroll and time keeping related questions. Investigates and corrects payroll discrepancies and errors.
• Utilizes Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS) and timekeeping systems to update team member information, process payroll, gather data, and generate reports.
• Shares knowledge, skills and experience to assist in the training of junior payroll administrators.

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Typically Minimum 4 Years Relevant Exp
• Payroll and HRIS knowledge

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance/Accounting
• Typically Minimum 8+ Years Relevant Exp
• payroll experience
• Fundamental Payroll Certification (FPC), or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP), or other relevant certification

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

• Skills / Knowledge - As a skilled specialist, completes tasks in resourceful and effective ways.
• Job Complexity - Works on assignments requiring considerable initiative. Understands implications of work and makes recommendations for solutions.
• Supervision - Proposes methods and procedures on new assignments. May be informal team leader.
• Oral and Written skills - Excellent communication skills
• Technical ability - Microsoft Office; Human Resource Information Systems (Payroll, Time & Attendance)
• Organizational skills - Ability to stay focused and organized with large amounts of data

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.