Job Description

Our Business Control team make sure our business is running efficiently and safely, at all times. As a key part of this team our new Payroll Pensions and Benefits Assistant will be responsible for:

• Administering changes to our payroll system for new starters, leavers and any other role changes or adjustments.
• Support in statutory claims, such as SMP, SPP, SSP etc.
• Liaise with the payroll provider regarding the issuing of P45s, P11Ds, P60s and any other payroll or pension related letters to employees
• Administer the payroll process via our third-party payroll provider through to payment on a monthly basis
• Resolving discrepancies and resolving queries
• Proactively managing your workload– prioritizing activities to meet the needs of the business
• Reconciliation of payroll, taxes, and pensions control accounts
• Creation of bank payments for payroll, taxes, and pensions
• Liaise with HR, colleagues and third parties to keep all payroll, pensions, and benefits information up to date, or on queries, as required
• Attend regular meetings with the third-party payroll provider to resolve queries
• Seek external advice or investigate ad hoc issues with HMRC etc, as required
• Provide general Pensions support via the third- party provider
• Benefits administration in the payroll system
• Support the Finance Manager with holiday and bonus accruals calculations
• Support and maintain the time tracking tool
• Keep process SOPs up to date
• You will be eager to take on other ad hoc tasks that just generally need dealing with by the Business Control team

Perks & Benefits

We know that providing interesting day-to-day work isn’t enough, so we’ve put together a competitive package for our Payroll Pensions and Benefits Assistant role:

• Base salary starts up to £22K and a clear earnings pathway to follow
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 5%
• Life assurance, private healthcare, income protection, and all those other good things
• Gym discounts and discounted shopping scheme
• 25 days annual leave
• Flexible working
• Casual dress code
• A fun, diverse, professional and caring bunch of colleagues

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

A minimum of 2 years previous experience of working in a similar role. Experience working with Xero accounting software is desirable but not essential. Experience working with Moorepay is desirable but not essential. Experience of liaising with internal and external stakeholders of all levels. Experience: Payroll: 2 years (Required)