Senior Payroll Officer

**Job Title**: 18mth FTC Senior Payroll Officer
**Salary**: £30,000 - £32,000 p/a (DOE) with a £3,000 retention bonus following successful completion of FTC.
**Working Days**: Monday - Friday 37.5 hours p/w

**Benefits**:25 Days Annual Leave + Banks, Pension, Life Assurance + Additional Benefits

Suttons Tankers are currently recruiting for an experienced Senior Payroll Officer to join our payroll function covering a maternity leave in our team on a Fixed-Term Contract. This role is based out of our Widnes Head Office with the opportunity for hybrid working upon completion of a successful training period.

As one of our Payroll Officers, you will be part of a small payroll team responsible for the end-to-end payroll processing for roughly 950 staff. Our payroll is a combination of monthly and weekly paid colleagues and will include the processing of overtime, allowances, holiday pay and sickness calculations as required.

**Responsibilities**:
Assist in the processing of the payroll for approximately 950 employees ensuring people get paid accurately and on time, across multiple payroll runs
Developing an understanding the different contractual terms of groups of employees and the impact on their pay
Resolve employee payroll queries quickly, making advance payments where required
Overseeing the deductions and payments for PAYE, National Insurance, childcare vouchers, cycle to work, etc
Managing the processing and payment of the Company’s pension schemes and reconciling these regularly, making sure the business is compliant with auto-enrolment requirements
Develop and maintain successful relationships with key stakeholders to ensure successful payroll cycles
Managing new starters and leavers to make sure first and last pay calculations are accurate
Ensuring sickness and holiday calculations are being carried out accurately and in line with employee’s contract terms
Processing and calculation of P11Ds, P60s and P45s
Providing payroll data and reporting to the finance team and wider business as required.
Gender pay reporting
Administration of the company’s death in service scheme

**Experience Required**:
Experienced payroll professional, a minimum of 2 years in a similar role
Experience in working with multiple Contracts of Employment
Excellent Excel skills and used to processing large amounts of data
A confident communicator who is able to challenge people and change behaviours within an operational environment
A fast learner of systems and processes
Experience working within a transport or logistics business would be advantageous

**The Package**:
In return, you will receive a competitive salary of £30,000 - £32,000 dependent on experience. You will also benefit from a company pension scheme, paid holidays (25 days + 8 bank holidays) and the opportunities that come with a strong, established, and growing company.

In addition, Suttons provide every UK employee with access to Suttons Perks, our Employee Assistance Programme and reward platform. Suttons Perks provides discounts to 100s of top name brands, high street offers, and holidays, as well as Employee Wellbeing and Support.

**The Company**:
Established in 1926, Suttons Group is an innovative, global logistics business, employing over 1,000 people worldwide and with £190 million in sales, our global network includes 31 locations across Asia, 5 locations throughout Europe, plus our 32 sites in the UK, 5 locations in the Middle East and 4 locations in the Americas. We have a fleet of 8,000 tank containers, 500 trucks, and 700 trailers. We carry out 170,000+ shipments per year - that equates to a delivery every 3 minutes

In the UK, Suttons Tankers operates a nationwide road tanker fleet which has been successfully serving the chemicals, gas, fuels, waste, and powders sectors for over 60 years, and is the largest chemical transporter in the UK.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 18 months

**Salary**: £30,000.00-£32,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

**Experience**:

- Payroll: 2 years (required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Widnes

Reference ID: VA193