Senior Payroll Administrator

Job Summary

Portfolio Payroll are currently working with a busy and vibrant client payroll business in Newcastle who are currently recruiting for a Senior Payroll Administrator to join their team. Working for an established firm with opportunity for progression this business is the ideal setting to enhance your career.

Key Objectives:

• To process outsourced payroll
• Excellent Service delivery
• End to End Payroll Administration
• Maintain working knowledge and understanding of current statutory legislation
• Enrolling New Starters
• Liaising with HMRC
• RTI, Pensions,
• Collating timesheets
• Inputting data onto the system
• Checking timesheets are correct
• Creating statutory payment schedules & top up
• Manual calculations - starters & leavers, tax & NI, student loans, pensions
• Using imports for data processing
• Early payroll runs & re-runs & payments after leaving
• Apprenticeship levy, Employment allowance, Small ER relief - calculations and implementation
• Payroll reversals/corrections
• Court orders processing
• Taking inbound calls
• General administration duties

Essential Skills:

• End to end processing
• HMRC submissions
• Experience using Excel
• Data accuracy
• Calculate, process and advise on statutory payments and court order
• Calculate, advise and process annual leave
• Uploading and maintaining pension data
• Experience in a fast paced environment
• Excellent communicator as you will be answering queries
• Comprehensive knowledge of payroll and auto enrolment legislation
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to self-manage are essential, while remaining flexible and adaptable.

Desirable skills and attributes:

• Strong payroll experience - assist new members of the team
• Calculate and process individual occupation maternity and sickness
• Setting up and approving BACS payment for salary and PAYE payments
• Producing payroll reports and creating payroll journals
• Reconciliation of PAYE accounts
• Setting up pension schemes with pension providers
• STAR system experience

Salary and Benefits:

• Progression opportunities
• Study support where applicable
• The Peoples Pension
• Life insurance
• Up to 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays
• Ongoing professional development
• Genuine work life balance
• Hybrid working
• Enhanced maternity pay
• Employee assistance programme
• Purchase of additional holiday
• Cycle to work scheme
• Tech scheme
• Assigned coach to support career development
• Free parking

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.