HR and Payroll Administrator

**The vacancy**

**Main Purpose of the role**:
Your primary responsibility is to ensure accurate data entry and timely administration of the Firm’s monthly payroll and employee benefits and managing HR processes using the appropriate systems and procedures. In addition you will play an active role as a key person in our small team providing generalist HR services and support to the business.

**Key Areas of Focus**:
**Pay, Benefits and HR Records**

**Including**:
Lead on the accurate and timely delivery of the monthly employee payroll, ensuring statutory reporting requirements are met.

Lead on payroll processes including tax, NI and statutory elements using the Cascade Payroll system.

Ensure payroll end to end and statutory processes, including RTI, FPS, EPS, Pension auto-enrolment, apprenticeship levy are completed and complied with.

Administer salary exchange benefits within the statutory parameters. Provide appropriate reports, liaise with external regulatory bodies such as The Pensions Regulator and HMRC as required.

Provide accurate HR administration from new starters through to managing leavers, setting up new employee records, administering pay and benefits, updating records for changes, and ensuring leavers are processed appropriately.

Maintain employee records; ensure that employee changes are entered correctly and made on a timely basis; review changes for proper authorisation and adherence to policy and statute.

Co-ordinate employment related activity and communication between Payroll, Human Resources, Finance, Database and other departments to ensure proper flow and maintenance of accurate employee data. Be the initial point of contact for all internal payroll queries.

**Employer brand and attraction**

**Including**:
Be an ambassador for the firm, support recruitment activities with schools, colleges, universities and careers fairs, assist with recruitment processes from attraction through to on-boarding activities including the HR aspects of new employee induction.

**Transformation**

Provide administrative and practical support for HR activities and projects to develop the HR services proposition, including the annual wellbeing plan.

**Additional duties**

Process invoices and charges for HR expenditure to the appropriate budget nominal through the relevant finance system.

Input to reports and updates, such as the monthly reports for the Board, Gender Pay Gap, status updates and information of interest for your area of responsibility.

You’ll need to have the following essential skills and experience:

- Working knowledge of key payroll calculations and processes for tax, NI and statutory elements
- Experienced in payroll end to end statutory processes, including RTI, FPS, EPS, Pension auto-enrolment, apprenticeship levy
- Experience with reconciliation of reports, liaison with external regulatory bodies such as The Pensions Regulator and HMRC
- Experience of administering salary exchange within statutory parameters
- Good generalist HR administration experience
- Strong organisational skills and logic
- Cascade HR and payroll experience is strongly preferred

Personal Attributes
- People driven with a sense of fairness and desire to do the right thing
- Diligence and attention to detail
- Strong initiative, creative and solutions driven
- Self-motivated and resourceful
- Resilient
- Work well as part of a team
- Flexible

**In return we will offer you**:

- Award winning agile working scheme including a range of flexible working options
- Award winning wellbeing programme - including physical and mental health support, flu vaccinations, team and social events, employee assistance programme, counselling and much, much more
- Holiday 22 days plus 1 designated Partner day, plus bank holidays as they accrue
- Life Assurance 3x salary
- Professional subscriptions paid
- Financial protection if you’re unable to work due to medical incapacity
- Annual salary review and pay for performance
- Option to purchase Private Medical Insurance
- Pension, holiday purchase and Cycle to Work schemes through salary exchange
- Salary Extras flexible benefits platform offering lifestyle, leisure and retail discounts including discounted gym membership

And more

**We are happy to talk about flexible working options.**

**Working with us**

At Larking Gowen, our people get the very best career opportunities in accountancy and business advice. Whether you're just starting out and you’re looking for an Apprenticeship or Graduate opportunity or you've been working in the business for some time, we'll make sure you get all the support you need to take you to the next step in your career and beyond.

We pride ourselves on being a friendly business that looks after our people and is active in the community. As soon as you join us, you'll be working hands-on, and starting to build your own professional relationships.

Larking Gowen has been around for more than 130 years. We have gone from strength t