Payroll Administrator

Overall Job Purpose

The role is responsible for administering the 4-weekly payroll function within

Travelodge and liaising with the external payroll provider (BDO).

**Responsibilities**:

- Processing the 4-weekly pay cycle of 12,000 + colleagues
- Collect, compile and prepare payroll data for processing to Bureau
- Payroll checks in line with established deadlines
- Management of the 4-Weekly payroll close - Analysing all payroll reports and

approving to the Bureau within the relevant timescales to ensure all colleagues

are paid accurately and on time
- First line communication with the Bureau to ensure all payroll queries are

resolved within the specified Bureau SLA’s
- Prepare Payroll reports for Finance Team
- Investigate and correct in house payroll discrepancies and errors, Prioritise
- Reconciliation, query resolution and payments for the Attachment of Earnings

Orders and Union Payments for both 4-Weekly and Monthly payrolls
- Processing manual payments via BACS for missed colleague hours
- 3rd party correspondence - Child Support Agency, Department for Work and

Pensions, HMRC and the Pensions Regulator
- Review and verify source documentation - Payroll references and P45’s
- Reporting on historical data for HR and external agencies relating to ER cases

and TUPE transfers
- Run upskill training sessions for Hotel Manager’s and knowledge trees for

colleague
- Payroll Report presentations and ROM’s and DOM’s
- Ad-hoc reporting for DM’s, HR and Finance
- Other duties as and when required for the needs of the business.

Stakeholders:
Internal: Travelodge Employees, Operational Finance, People Services

External: BDO Payroll Bureau, Elementsuite, HMRC, The Pensions Regulator, Dept.

For Work and Pensions and Courts

Person Specification: Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications

Essential:

- Experience of processing different payroll frequencies for a large multi-sited

business within the hospitality, retail or service sectors
- CIPP qualified or working towards similar qualification
- To be self-motivated with strong attention to detail, whilst demonstrating the

ability to prioritise and manage own workload
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Strong IT skills, good knowledge of Excel is important (data manipulation - pivot

tables and v
- lookups etc.)

Desirable:

- Knowledge of Elementsuite

Benefit / Impact to Customers
- Ensure all payroll procedures are completed accurately on a timely basis to

appropriately remunerate employees to enable customer service levels to be

maintained.

Values to be demonstrated at all times in the role

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