Senior Payroll Administrator

Butler Rose; Chester; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Generous pension

Employee assistance programme

Life cover

Enhanced maternity/paternity/sick pay

Long service rewards

Parking

Job summary

Butler Rose is recruiting a Payroll Senior Administrator to join a Chester payroll team. You will process weekly and monthly payrolls end-to-end, working with Sage 50 or BrightPay, and handle pensions, HMRC queries, and BACS submissions.

The role offers a collaborative environment with mentoring and ongoing system training. The ideal candidate has payroll experience in a bureau or in-house setting, strong knowledge of payroll legislation and auto-enrolment, and excellent communication, time

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll processing, end-to-end, in-house or bureau.
• Strong understanding of payroll legislation and auto enrolment.
• Ability to manually calculate payroll.
• Familiarity with Sage 50 or BrightPay preferred.
• Proficient in MS Office.
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.
• Ability to work in a team and on own initiative.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Process weekly and monthly payrolls from start to finish.
• Deal with auto-enrolment pensions and pension providers.
• Manage HMRC, PAYE and related payroll submissions (BACS).
• Handle P11Ds processing and holiday pay calculations.
• Keep up to date with payroll legislation.

Skills

Payroll processing

End-to-end payroll

Interpersonal skills

Time management

Teamwork

Problem solving

Tools

Sage 50

BrightPay

MS Office

Job description

The Opportunity:

A superb opportunity exists to join a friendly and progressive firm in Chester to join their payroll team as Payroll Senior Administrator. This role offers an experienced Payroll Administrator or Senior to step into the role of Payroll Senior together with a great working environment, generous salary and benefits. If you possess end to end payroll processing experience in an inhouse or bureau role and are ready for more responsibility and a career challenge within a dynamic team environment, this one is for you!

The Role

Working as part of a busy, friendly, collaborative team processing with both small and high volume full end to end payroll processing weekly and monthly via Brightpay, you will deal with payroll queries in a timely manner providing a great payroll processing service, working together as a team, offering mentoring and support to colleagues. You will receive full payroll system training and support working closely within your team.

Duties:

• Process both small and high volume weekly/monthly payrolls, auto-enrolment pensions dealing with payrolls from start to finish via Sage 50 or Brightpay (training provided) ensuring accuracy and working to deadlines
• Dealing with HMRC, and various pension providers.
• BACS submissions PAYE, CIS, Holiday pay, SMP/SSP, P45/P46's starters leavers
• P11Ds processing
• Keeping up to date with the latest payroll legislation

Experience:

• * Payroll experience within a bureau environment or similar is preferred
• * In depth understanding of payroll legislation, processing and auto enrolment/pensions.
• * Ability to manually calculate a payroll.
• * Understanding of Sage or Bright Pay preferred. MS office experience
• * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• * Ability to work within a team environment and on own initiative.
• * Solid organisational and time management skills together with a positive attitude.
• * Good working knowledge of Microsoft products.

Salary & Benefits

• * Salary to c£33,000(dep on experience)
• * 28 days holiday
• * Generous Pension
• * Option to buy/sell additional holiday entitlement & salary sacrifice pension scheme
• * Employee assistance programme
• * Life cover
• * Enhanced maternity/paternity/ and sick pay
• * Long service rewards to pension contribution and additional holidays
• * Parking* (dependent on location)

If you are ready to join a friendly, stable, dynamic and progressive company that offers a great environment and career development -

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Butler Rose is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.