Payroll Officer wfh + Incredible Benefits

**Job Title**:Payroll Officer **Location**: Folkestone - Flexibility for ad hoc home working, the HR team are on site most of the time to support the production team **Salary**:Call us on 01233 611780 to discuss or message me on Linkedin for full details **Company**:A global manufacturing company **The Team**: A small HR team who are looking for someone interested in taking on some HR work (for example recruitment, inductions, project work) **Hours**:Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm, Friday 9am-4pm **Incredible benefits**: - 24 days annual leave (you can buy/sell 2 days per year) plus 8 bank holidays - 4% discretionary company performance related annual bonus - Up to 9% matched contribution pension scheme - Health cash plan with healthshield - 50% working from home and 50% working in the office **Responsibilities as the Payroll Officer**: - Manage the UK outsource Payroll system - Arrange the payment of staff salaries, all monthly paid, c400 employees, through the outsourced payroll and to action any other non-regular payments as required - This will involve the checking of all relevant information for the monthly payroll (including new starters, leavers, benefits, contract changes, and sickness absence payments, maternity and paternity pay). - Ownership of the Time and Attendance system (currently Workforce) to capture overtime, absences anomalies etc to reconcile for payment. - To administer Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay, Statutory Paternity Pay and Shared parental leave as required. - To complete necessary third party documentation arising from payroll information requests from external agencies, e.g. HMRC, insurance claims etc. - To check, maintain and process variable deductions where necessary, e.g. court orders, student loans etc - To assist in the administration of benefits schemes including but not limited to the auto enrollment pension plan, childcare voucher scheme, salary and bonus exchange, car allowances. - To undertake compliance reporting and participation in internal / external audits and SOX Compliance and any other related to payroll as and when required. - Deal with payroll related enquiries to conclusion ensuring a high level of customer care and service delivery from both within the HR function or externally across the business. - To attend any required training to ensure payroll knowledge in particular is up to date - To maintain absolute discretion and maturity in handling sensitive/confidential data. - To comply with employment and payroll legislation. Ensure that any legislation changes impacting pay and payroll processing are managed and communicated effectively - To maintain absence and sickness records, including the calculation of entitlements, and completion of relevant attendance and related management information. - Build a close working relationship with the Finance Department and liaise with respect of provision of journals, month end data and other reports as requested. - Liaison with Corporate payroll and HR functions as and when required and ensure compliance with data protection legislation **Additional information for you about your next job**: - This is a standalone Payroll position where you would be the in-house payroll expert, so you need to be knowledgeable and confident to make your own decisions. - 50% of employees are hourly paid and 50% salaried. All on a monthly payroll. - The company operate an outsourced payroll so it's a case of pulling together data, preparing excel files and then data checking and calculation checking. - You'd be responsible for all year end activities, P11ds etc. - You will need to be "digitally savvy" and comfortable with IT, as the role uses Excel (heavily) and Microsoft Access. You will also be the Superuser for their Time & Attendance system, you can receive training on this but you'll need to be confident with IT. - This is a customer facing position, they have a good relationship with their production team but you'll need good customer service to deal with queries (and occasional complaints if someone is paid incorrectly or example). - Extensive experience of standalone Payroll Officer level role within a salaried and hourly paid workforce - Knowledge of pension/auto-enrolment administration - Extensive and up to date UK Payroll knowledge - Knowledge of Time & Attendance systems, including data management and user administration - Experience and knowledge of HR processes (primarily recruitment, onboarding and employee relations) would be an advantage - Strong level of Excel (confident with data manipulation, vlookups etc) and Access - Good verbal and written communication - Flexible and pro active approach to work, able to adapt to changing priorities **Next steps**: Office Angels acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Office Angels UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer. To speak to a recruitment expert please contact Nicola Hamle