Payroll Specialist

**Payroll Specialist - RSA - Financial Services & Insurance - Liverpool - Hybrid**

RSA is a multinational personal and commercial insurer operating across the UK, Ireland, and continental Europe.

As one of the world’s longest standing general insurers, we’ve learned a thing or two about the value of insurance to our customers. We combine our skills, knowledge and experience to deliver solutions for customers via direct channels, broker relationships and partner organizations.

We have significant businesses in the UK and Ireland where the RSA brand is joined by retail brands MORE THAN and 123.ie while RSA Luxembourg serves brokers and customers in Belgium, France, Spain and the Netherlands.

RSA employs over 5,500 people and in 2021, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Intact Financial Corporation (TSX:IFC), the largest general insurer in Canada and leading provider of global specialty insurance.

**Your Role**

Your role is to enable the efficient and smooth running of the monthly payroll, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time.

You will need to process various payroll activities across the end-to-end payroll timetable such as processing absences, leavers, pensions, and general system inputting.

You will also need to complete agreed controls and audits as well as numerous reconciliations in addition to resolving queries and discrepancies.

**Responsibilities**
- Performs agreed checks, controls and audits to ensure that that the monthly pay cycle is accurate.
- Provides information to support completion of the internal payroll audit as needed.
- Identifies and resolves payroll queries and discrepancies as well as managing a range of queries from RSA employees, providing resolutions on a timely basis.
- Processes payroll related transactions covering the end to end employee life cycle into SAPHR, both manually and file uploads including SSP, SMP, SPP, attachment of earnings and student loans.
- Produces payroll related letters in line with agreed processes ensuring they are accurate and legally compliant.
- Works with other parts of HR Services to ensure the integrity of HRIS, data and service provision including the promotion of Leader and Employee Self Service.
- Performs and submits year end reconciliations and statutory returns/submissions to HMRC.
- Manages monthly reconciliation of 3rd party provider files and subsequent payment, performs payroll trial balance, and reconciles all payroll related balance sheet accounts resolving queries in agreed SLA.

**Requirements**:

- A recognised Payroll or Accountancy qualification.
- Substantial payroll experience, preferably gained from a regulated, customer facing payroll team with an employee base of at least 3000.
- Experience of using a payroll solution; SAPHR advantageous but not essential.
- Advanced excel skills with the ability to perform a range of calculations, look ups and pivots.

**About Us**
A welcoming, diverse and inclusive culture is an important element for RSA in our best-in-class ambition. RSA thrives when everyone feels comfortable bringing their best self to work. We have a diverse mix of customers and we want our employee base to reflect that. We celebrate difference, whilst striving to create an environment where colleagues feel respected and valued for their unique potential.

Our commitment to diversity is sincere, continually growing and led right from the top.

**Our Values**:
**Integrity**:

- Be honest, open and fair. Set high standards. Stand up for what is right.

**Respect**:

- Be kind. See diversity as a strength. Be inclusive and collaborate

**Customer Driven** - Listen to our customers. Make it easy, find solutions. Deliver second-to-none experiences.

**Excellence** - Act with discipline and drive to outperform. Embrace change, improve every day. Celebrate success yet remain humble.

**Generosity -** Help others. Protect the environment. Make our communities more resilient.

Job Reference: UK000569