Payroll Specialist

About The Role

Ecotricity is looking for a Payroll Specialist to join the small team on a fixed term basis.

The role will include:

• Learn all aspects of payroll processes to always provide excellent service.
• Act as a central point of contact for all employee payroll queries.
• Responsible for ensuring all payrolls are processed and completed accurately and on time.
• Ensure all required outputs including 3rd party payments, P60s, P11Ds are produced and delivered to onward users accurately and on time.
• Perform all quality related payroll reviews, checks and controls to ensure compliance.
• Ensure payroll process documents are fully updated and that key processes are mapped and fully documented, including training material.
• Prepare reports by compiling summaries of earnings, taxes, and deductions.
• Headcount and other payroll reporting & cost centre checks for Finance.
• Provide ad-hoc reporting as necessary.
• Balance the payroll accounts by resolving payroll discrepancies.
• Proactively recommend improvements to existing services, policies and processes for continuous improvement.
• Ensure payroll related 3rd party invoices are paid accurately and on time.
• Ensure statutory documentation is provided to employees within the appropriate timeframes (P11D, P45, P60 etc.).
• Set up salary sacrifice schemes in line with both legislative guidelines and company policy/procedure.
• Process statutory payments, including SMP and SSP.
• Liaise with and manage queries with our payroll provider as and when necessary.
• Produce and submit BACS and any other 3rd party payment files including RTI and AE information.

About You

• Experience of using Microsoft Excel, Word, and Outlook to a proficient level.
• Experience in a payroll administration and an understanding of general payroll legislation is essential.
• Adaptable to changing priorities.
• Ability to prioritise work to achieve deadlines.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to work either as part of a team or individually. Understanding the requirement of taking both ownership and responsibility for allocated payroll delivery - ability to challenge when required.
• Previous experience of working in an in-house payroll environment is desirable.
• Demonstrable experience of dealing directly with stakeholders, business partners and employees.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential.
• Organised, pro-active with a high level of attention to detail.
• Previous experience using ADP and/or Workday would advantageous.
• Good understanding of PAYE and automatic enrolment legislation.

About Us

What's in it for you...

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Volunteering Day
• Hybrid Working
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract

Contract length: 18 months

Pay: £30,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Additional leave
• Bereavement leave
• Canteen
• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Enhanced paternity leave
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid volunteer time
• Referral programme
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Application question(s):

• Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?
• Ecotricity offers hybrid working, are you able to reliably commute to Stroud, Gloucestershire 2 days per week?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in United Kingdom GL5 3BY