Payroll Role

1 month ago


Cambridge, United Kingdom Adecco UK Limited Full time
Payroll Team Leader

Rate - £17.50 (Hourly)

Duration - 2 months (initially until 31/12/24)

Location - Cambridge (Hybrid)

Ir35 - Inside (Must use an umbrella company)

Main duties and responsibilities:

Team leadership:

  • Responsible for the day to day leadership and supervision of two Payroll Administrators, including co-ordination and monitoring of workload
  • Participate in recruitment of administrative staff.
  • Oversee training of new members of staff providing one-to-one supervision with ongoing guidance and assistance on a daily basis.
  • Undertake probationary meetings for new staff and complete appraisals providing written reports
  • Attend or lead monthly team meetings and identify topics of relevance for discussion and forward planning


Policies and procedures:

  • Ensure agreed policies and procedures are followed in order to maintain a high quality of service.
  • Ensure team members are kept up to date with contractual and statutory changes especially with regard to taxation rules
  • Assist with testing of system changes, changes to terms and conditions, new statutory requirements to ensure the payroll is calculating correctly
  • Ensure best practice guides are followed and maintained.
  • Maintain the Payroll Manual


Payroll processing:

  • Upload files to auto-enrolment provider for assessment, reconcile contributions and notify provider of leavers with regulatory timescales
  • Reconcile and finalise payrolls and ensure all BACS payments are processed
  • Reconcile GL files and inform Finance when ready for processing
  • Reconcile and BACS third party payments, HMRC payments and pass payment requests to Treasury section each month


Candidate Specifics:

  • In-depth knowledge of current and past payroll legislation and procedures including year-end processes, P11d's, statutory payments, attachment of earnings orders.
  • Able to accurately identify, investigate and resolve complex issues with a high level of initiative towards problem solving.
  • Able to plan and organise tasks and workloads effectively having a logical pragmatic approach to decision making to ensure deadlines are met.
  • Competent level of computer literacy including Excel and Word.
  • In-depth knowledge of medium to large sized payroll systems such as MHR iTrent
  • In-depth knowledge of benefits and expenses rules in order to complete annual P11d returns
  • In-depth knowledge of current and past tax, NI and statutory payment rules and regulations
  • Able to manually calculate gross to net and net to gross payments accurately.
  • Able to perform complex accounting reconciliations.
  • Knowledge of GDPR able to maintain strict confidentiality at all times.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, both written and verbal. Able to communicate with all levels of staff and external bodies e.g. HMRC, Auditors.
  • Able to train staff in all areas of payroll, assist with interviews, undertake probations and appraisals.
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with strong attention to detail.

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