An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Payroll Administrator to work for a leading aerospace client, based within the Payroll Operations team in Preston, reporting to one of the Payroll Team Managers. This role requires a customer focused approach to accurately administer complex, high volume payrolls.
Key duties include;
• Responsible for the timely and accurate preparation and processing of high volume and complex Payrolls in line with SLA’s and HMRC leglislation.
• Responsible for logging any advances, errors and overpayments and reporting any known issues/defects to a Payroll Team Manager for timely review.
• Play a key role in ensuring that all work instructions and processes regularly reviewed and and remain compliant with governance and audit procedures. Proactively escalate any discrepancies or changes required.
• Support with the continuous improvement initiative, highlighting new ideas and better ways of working.
• Responsible for the regular review of all Finance reconciliation items for your areas of responsibility.
• Support with internal/external Payroll reviews/audits when required.
• Support with the training of team members as and when required.
• Work along our employees, Business stakeholders and internal/external teams in order to promptly resolve any business, employee and Third Party payroll related queries, ensuring the most effective communication method is used.
• Responsible for identifying and taking relevant preventative action to minimise under / over payments.
• Responsible for prioritising your own workload and using initiative and problem solving capabilities to provide a responsive Payroll Service at all times.
• Other duties as defined by the Payroll Team Manager and Business.
Knowledge
- Excellent knowledge and experience of UK Payroll
- Previous experience of working within a Payroll Service delivering multiple payrolls.
- Payroll legislation knowledge, including an appreciation for future changes and the possible impact of these on a Payroll function.
- Experience of Resource Link system or similar is desirable
Essential Skills
- PC Literacy, competent in Word, Excel & Outlook
- Excellent people skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- The ability to interrogate and analyse data demonstrating numeracy, accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to problem solve using own initiative.(
- Collaborative approach with colleagues and stakeholders to build and maintain effective relationships.
Qualifications
- CIPP or equivalent Payroll qualification would be an advantage
- GCSEs or equivalent in Mathematics and English, grades A-C.
Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy
Payroll; VAT returns; Reconciliation; Payroll Legislation; P11D; p45; Payroll Systems; multi-payroll; HMRC; Query Handling; Stakeholder Management; Expenses; CIPP; Resource Link