Senior Payroll Technician

4 days ago

Leeds, United Kingdom StepChange Debt Charity Full time

We are looking for a confident Senior Payroll Technician to join the Payroll and Reward team at StepChange Debt Charity in Leeds. This is a crucial role, responsible for ensuring that monthly salaries and pensions are processed, paid, and recorded accuratelyand on time. Additionally, you will provide support to the Payroll Manager in wider process improvement and project work and act as deputy for all monthly compliance file submissions post payroll approval and payment.
This role would suit someone who has experience of delivering end to end Payroll of an equivalent size and complexity, with up to date knowledge of HMRC regulations, rates and allowances, RTI, Auto-enrolment, Gender Pay Gap Reporting and Apprenticeship Levy.
With this role you can enjoy the benefits of hybrid working, combining working from home with some days in our new offices in Leeds City Centre.
**What you will be doing**
- Deliver completed monthly payroll submission for final review and approval in line with agreed timelines, providing processing support as necessary and allocating workloads as appropriate
- Support the Payroll Manager with review of pay processing work carried out by administrator colleagues and provide training to colleagues as required
- Ensure compliance with all HMRC regulations in monthly processing
- Identify any areas of non-compliance with FCC pay related policies, escalating any recurring significant issues as required
- Format and reconcile pension reports, run compliance checks through Aviva AME system and transmit monthly payments reports to Aviva
- Supervise payment of all monthly payroll deductions to third parties, eg attachment of earnings, with appropriate backing documentation
- Ensure any monthly over/underpayments are processed and communicated promptly to Charity colleagues
- Reconcile employee benefit deductions (eg childcare vouchers, car parking) from third party source documentation back to payroll software. Approve invoice payments and notify third parties of amendments/errors as appropriate
- Maintain system of payroll records and spreadsheets; proactively suggesting improvements to current systems and processes of recording and balancing
- Set out a systematic timetable for periodic data cleansing exercises between payroll and HR systems, making better use of existing reporting capability
- Liaise with wider finance team colleagues in any required accounting reconciliation of payroll related control account balances
- Ensure sufficient information is retained and collated to deliver the annual P11D submissions

**What we want from you**
- Up to date knowledge of HMRC regulations, rates and allowances. RTI, Auto-enrolment, Gender Pay Gap Reporting and Apprenticeship Levy
- Manual gross to net calculation
- Experience of working within a Payroll Department of equivalent size and complexity
- Track record of supervising and training colleagues and delivering an end-to-end payroll process
- Highly numerate and capable of meeting strict deadlines
- Computer literate i.e. Excel (including v-lookup, sumif, countif), Word, Microsoft Outlook
- Ability to work with manual processes and demonstrable track record of previous process improvements
- An accredited certificate obtained in payroll, business administration or finance from a credible higher institution with practical understanding of payroll practices and procedures (desirable)
- Basic accounting and bookkeeping principles (desirable)
- Involvement in a Payroll and HR system integration project (desirable)

**What we offer you**
- 24 days annual leave (this increases by one day per year up to a maximum of 29), plus bank holidays
- Hybrid work - the ability to work from home and from our new offices
- An individually tailored personal development plan and ongoing training
- The opportunity to buy and sell annual leave
- Use of a Charity laptop and headset for working from home
- Travel season ticket loans
- Discounted car parking
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Group personal pension scheme
- Westfield Health cash plan
- Employee assistance programme
- Financial planning
- Long service awards

**About us**:
StepChange are the UK's largest and most comprehensive provider of free debt advice. Hundreds of thousands of people come to us for help every year. Some are at crisis point and many don't see a way out. We help them to find a way out of their debt problems.We don't judge people; we provide the support, guidance and solutions that are needed. Whatever the situation we'll look for practical solutions that make our clients' lives better.

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