Temporary Senior Payroll Administrator

Description

We are looking for a UK based, remote Temporary Senior Payroll Administrator to join our team.

Working in a team of 9 (Manager and 8 Payroll Administrators) and using IRIS Payrite Payroll Software, the department provides bureau payroll service to approximately 230 clients consisting of both schools and companies. On a monthly and weekly basis, the department produces around 12,000 payslips.

This is a temporary role which we anticipate will continue for approximately three months.

This position has an earning potential of up to £32.00 per hour depending on experience.

Key Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of 25-30 clients across multiple pay deadlines processing c2000 employees in total.

Process all payrolls from start to finish:

• Starters, Leavers and Permanent data changes
• Process variable data from clients
• Manage multiple deadlines for variable data and manage the client throughout the pay cycle
• Audit and check payroll
• Report processing and sending to clients for sign off
• Send reports and payslips to clients
• Produce BACS payment schedule and forward to BACS officer
• Liaise with client and dealing with salary queries
• Completing complex monthly/annual pension returns
• Dealing with queries with pensions administrators / HM Revenue & Customs
• Processing forms P45/P46/P6/P9
• Processing and calculating statutory payments such as SMP, SSP etc.
• Ability to manually calculate pro-rata payments such as holiday pay, hourly/daily rates of pay etc.
• Monitoring multiple deadlines such as pensions, payrolls, HMRC etc.
• Working within current statutory legislation
• Signing off checklist, ensuring timely payroll processes within the department
• Ability to work within a team
• Ad hoc tasks as required

Assisting your team members with:

• Report writing within payroll software
• Assisting other team members to resolve PAYE/NIC queries
• Assisting other team members to resolve complex client queries
• Liaising directly with HMRC to resolve queries
• Providing backup support to the team in the absence of the payroll manager
• Preparation of BACS files

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

You will have:

• Experience of running payrolls for a portfolio of clients
• An in depth understanding of statutory payroll legislation
• Outstanding attention to detail

You will be:

• Able to manually calculate tax and national insurance
• Numerate and computer literate
• Able to work under pressure and to strict deadlines

You will ideally have:

• IRIS Payrite Payroll Software experience

About Payroll Software & Services Group

Formed in 2019, the PSSG specialises in providing software and outsourcing solutions for HR, Payroll and Business Support in the UK, Ireland and International markets.
Payroll pays people what they are due, accurately and on time and forms the base of all employee/employer relationships. HR supports, trains and develops people, to allow businesses to get the best from their people and maintain a happy working environment.

With over 220 employees and offices in the UK and Ireland, the PSSG is a rapidly growing, agile Company with financial investment from private equity house, Tenzing. It's a hugely exciting time to join the PSSG with many opportunities for career development and progression.