Payroll Administrator

Payroll Administrator
**DEMIPOWER GROUP (DPG)** London, England Metropolitan Area

The Demipower Group (DPG) is a rapidly growing and ambitious KFC Franchisee currently operating 117 restaurants across Greater London, Midlands, East Anglia, Home Counties, Western England and Wales. The Company is a privately-run family business started in 1989 with one store in Hornchurch and has significantly expanded over the last few years. We continue to open new restaurants and have an ambitious ongoing plan to upgrade and reimage the existing restaurants in our portfolio.

**Job Size**

The Payroll Administrator will liaise with our external payroll provider, Harri for all payroll activities covering approximately 4,000 employees, ensuring payroll transactions are completed efficiently and effectively. Additionally, dealing with any issues related to payroll payments.
**As the Payroll Administrator** **you will be required to;**
- Undertake day-to-day payroll activity in Partnership with Harri (external payroll provider)
- Processing and validation of payroll submissions received from stores
- Ensuring all payrolls are processed accurately and that payslips, statutory returns and reports are produced and validated within the agreed timeframes
- Process all aspects of payroll documentation including SSP, SMP, SPP, attachment of earnings, pensions, student loans, NI and RTI
- Ensure compliance with statutory and pension scheme requirements, e.g. P11Ds, auto
- enrolment, HMRC
- Oversee pension deductions and auto enrolment to pension schemes
- Processing of BACS payments
- Calculation and payment of termination payments (resignation/retirement/redundancy)
- Payment and reconciliation of bonus payments
- Liaise with HR re staff appointments, terminations, remuneration, conditions of service and other relevant matters
- Check leavers last payment calculations and ensure P45’s are issued
- Reconcile monthly PAYE liability to HMRC online portal
- Preparation and reconciliation of monthly General Ledger wages journals
- Preparation and reconciliation of payment summaries
- Ensure HMRC Real Time Information and Pension electronic files are uploaded correctly and reconciled each month
- Ad-hoc technical and administrative tasks
- Resolving payroll queries and any HMRC queries
- Data cleansing and maintenance of staff records including archiving and filing
- Preparation of ad hoc reports as required

This is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The post holder will be expected to undertake any other duties as may from time to time be required which are commensurate with the level of the post according to business need.
**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**
- Comprehensive and working knowledge of payroll systems
- Payroll management experience
- Advanced knowledge of Excel
- Attention to detail
- Legislative compliance
- Problem solving
- Analytical skills
- Numeracy skills - reconciliations and statistics
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
- Good knowledge of pension administration
**Benefits & Compensation**
- Competitive Salary
- Performance related bonus
- Company pension scheme
- Employee discount scheme

At Demipower we celebrate Inclusion and Equality; we believe everyone should bring their true self to work. We advocate collaboration and transparency and embrace differences in all that we do.

Working hours are 9-5:30 with a 1 hour lunch. This role will be office based.

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