Senior Payroll Administrator

3 weeks ago


Watford, United Kingdom KPMG Full time

**Job details**:
**Location**:Watford

**Capability**:KPMG Business Services

**Experience Level**:Associate/Assistant Manager

**Type**:Full Time

**Service Line**:OEH

**Contract type**:Fixed term contract

**Job description**:
**Senior Payroll Assistant - 12 months FTC - Watford**

**Base Location**: Watford

The Finance Operational Excellence Hub (OEH) provides Finance transactional support to our UK Business and through our service pledge underpins our overall Finance strategy and vision. We are a busy team covering operational tasks supporting our clients - the business, enabling them to support their clients. This is an exciting time to be joining the Finance Operational Excellence Hub. Part of our DNA is to continually look for ways to improve on the expectations of our clients across the business with the service we deliver.

The Finance OEH is made of five operational teams: Payroll, Credit Management, Engagement Finance Champions, Accounts Payable, Expenses, Accounts Receivable & Interoffice, WIP& Billing and the Finance Helpline, the team is also supported from two offshored two outsourced providers. The Finance OEH work closely with the Centre of Excellent (CoE) team to ensure all the policies and regulations are adhered to and operationalised.

The Payroll Department is responsible for the regular monthly payment of over 16,000 employees based in the UK. Based in Watford, the Payroll department has 10 permanent staff dealing with the payment of employees from all of KPMG’s UK offices.

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancy businesses, we've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

**What will you be doing?**
- To assume primary responsibility for a specified group of monthly paid staff (approximately 3,200), ensuring data held within the payroll system is accurate and updated within controlled processes
- To maintain an awareness of current and future PAYE developments; keeping up to date with changes that directly affect the firm’s employees, related enhancements and changes within the payroll software, and other internal and external policy decisions that impact upon an individual’s pay and reward.
- To liaise with other Central Services teams to ensure the timely and accurate flow of data and information to support the payroll team and related processes, whilst maintaining knowledge of their systems and processes that have a link with the payroll process.
- To ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of payroll queries; resolving general queries from employees regarding their monthly payment and tax status, investigating complex payroll queries that require expert knowledge of PAYE.

**What will you need to do it?**

The role of the Senior Payroll Administrator requires the following experience and qualities:

- Experience of working in a payroll function
- A good level of computer literacy, with advanced knowledge of payroll software packages
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Have a high attention to detail and accuracy
- Have the ability to remain calm under pressure to produce work to very tight deadlines
- Have initiative and ability to cope with erratic workloads whilst prioritising their own tasks

**Skills we’d love to see/Amazing Extras**:

- Significant Audit experience within a ‘Big 4’ consultancy, or mid-tier firm.
- Experience of High-volume payroll
- Experience using the Payroll Software Star

To discuss this role with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.

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**Why KPMG Business Services at KPMG?**:
Every day our firm performs better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. The difference we make shines through to our people and our clients. We’re KPMG Business Services (KBS). We’re a cross-functional team, bringing together experts across a wide range of critical activities which help to grow, run and protect our business. From HR and Learning, Finance, Procurement, Facilities and Operations, through to Risk and Legal, Corporate Affairs, and Market Development, our approach is focused on driving the improved performance of the firm. We work shoulder to shoulder with our client-facing teams and we focus on delivering our services in ways which help to drive efficiency, improve quality and enhance our firm’s brand and reputation.

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