Senior Payroll Officer

17 hours ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Oliver John HR Full time

Oliver John HR are delighted to be exclusively recruiting for a UK leading 3PL based in Crick.

Our client requires an experienced Senior Payroll Office to join us at their National Hub based in Crick (Northampton) with hybrid working available.

You’ll be responsible for and to oversee the co-ordination of the day-to-day work of the payroll service, with a strong focus on delivering excellent customer service at all times as well as effective distribution of work throughout the team.

You’ll also support the payroll team manger to ensure continuous development of the current, and any future, payroll systems in use, ensuring the smooth flow of information into and out of the payroll system to support team delivery.

**What you’ll do on a typical day**:

- Manage and co-ordinate the teams’ day-to-day tasks to ensure the accuracy, effectiveness and efficiency of the payroll service, ensuring the workload is distributed within the team and all queries raised are resolved accurately and in accordance to priority and timelines
- Be the first escalation point for the Payroll Specialist for complex problem solving or legislative or system issues
- Ensure a professional payroll service is delivered by all members of the team and escalate any concerns to the appropriate person
- Oversee manual calculations for statutory payments and ensure that the Payroll Specialist are meeting legislative compliance and high levels of accuracy (SMP/SPP/SAP/SHPP etc)
- Reconcile complex month and year end processes, essential to the accurate production of statutory and other returns as well as HMRC PAYE accounts for payments for tax, national insurance and SMP etc
- Correctly review pension payments per providers and ensure that contribution summaries are reconciled and formatted as per the provider’s requirements
- Plan, in conjunction with the Payroll Manager, the best way to implement legislative, procedural and system changes and to ensure that standard procedures are developed and maintained to reflect these changes
- Assist in the training of new staff and provide training in legislative updates to current staff
- Ensure NMW infringements as a result of salary sacrifice are corrected and communicated to employees and the Benefits team
- Plan in advance with the Payroll Manager, tasks for the coming year. This will involve anticipating the impact of changes in legislation and how to implement those changes, planning testing for system upgrades and identifying any impact on work practices, planning for retrospective pay awards and ensuring statutory and other deadlines are met
- Foresee any impact of new legislation on payroll and to help implement necessary changes
- Resolve out of balance accounts, errors and payment queries, to ensure the payroll runs accurately on time
- Liaise with external agencies such as HMRC, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), on complex payroll matters
- Working with payroll manager and business to ensure continuous development of payroll contingency plan, identifying and testing for possible areas of system failure
- Working with Payroll Manger and business to identify areas of payroll process improvements, and overseeing consequent implementations
- Any other duties as requested by the Payroll Manager
- 3 -5 years of working in a payroll environment, with experience of both ‘end to end’ and 3rd party service provision
- Fully CIPP qualified or equivalent (Ideal)
- Strong knowledge of ADP Global View/ SAP
- Up to date knowledge of HMRC guidance
- Highly proficient in payroll rules and regulations (experience in occupational pension schemes desirable)
- The ability to ensure compliance is always met.
- Awareness of project management and ability to manage and develop long term work projects
- Outstanding customer service skills
- Be a good team player with strong leadership skills
- A minimum of intermediate level use of Excel

**Some fantastic employer benefits to also consider**:

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy more during the benefits windows
- Hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 from home)
- Employee matched pension up to 3%
- Private healthcare entitlement
- Dental cover
- High street discounts with huge brands - from buying your groceries, updating your wardrobe or booking your next getaway
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family through UNUM 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Charity donations through payroll giving
- And much more

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £37,000.00-£42,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Company events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home

Schedule:

- Flexitime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Northampton: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Payroll: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remo


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