Payroll Advisor

**Overview**

Our Payroll Advisors are part of a team providing high quality payroll transactional processing and query resolution for our colleagues and managers for all life cycle activities and queries.

This role is predominately homebased with the requirements to travel approximately once a month for team meetings.

**How will you contribute?**
- Provide advice, guidance and on payroll queries, policies, procedures and systems to both managers and colleagues to deliver a great colleague experience, helping to promote Wincanton as a destination employer where we pay right first time.
- Actively get involved in managing and processing payroll data, acting within agreed Service Level Agreements.
- Handling sensitive and confidential data and pay transactions, that require accuracy and discretion, throughout. Maintain a high level of professional confidentiality and accuracy at all times.
- Monitor and track payroll related activities to make sure that these are communicated in plenty of time,and are being delivered on time and to the required expectations. Where issues arise, raise this in a proactive way so that they can be resolved as soon as practically possible.
- Support end of year payroll activities and reporting.
- Support and processing of pay review activities and process.
- Update and maintain the HRIS to ensure that colleagues data is up to date and accurate.
- Production of ad-hoc summary reporting and statistical information on payroll data.
- Act as a member of the colleague and business facing payroll team, take calls and resolve people, process and system type queries.
- Work with the support desk and systems and solutions team to resolve colleague’s queries that need support from the rest of the team.
- Manage and priorities personal workload to agreed SLAs and KPI’s.
- Provide efficient and accurate administration of Employee Life Cycle activities for our current colleagues and leavers.
- Responsible for the full end to end referencing process.
- Rapidly escalate transactions and issues that need further input or resolution.
- Identify where processes need to be streamlined or changed.
- Update processes, knowledge base articles and standard operating procedures where required.
- Make sure that information and data integrity, and legal compliance are always maintained
- Resolve problems or shortfalls in service delivery quickly.
- Provide generalist Payroll administration support as required.

**What will you bring?**
- Excellent IT skills, Microsoft office.
- Flexible team player.
- Results orientated.
- Extensive payroll knowledge.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Ability to remain calm.
- CIPP qualified would be beneficial
- Previous experience of working with large payrolls across multiple frequencies
- High degrees of initiative, accuracy, efficiency and attention to detail
- Problem Solving
- Ability to take a logical and practical approach
- Clear customer focus
- Concern for deadline and quality requirements
- Influencing skills and engagement with differing client groups
- Ability to multitask, work to deadlines, prioritise under pressure
- Excellent organisational skills
- Previous experience of HRIS & Payroll Systems.

**What do we offer?**

**Our Culture & Benefits**

In addition to a **generous salary **, we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, onsite parking and much more.

Our people are at the core of our business and what makes **Wincanton **great. That’s why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment.

**Be a part of our values; Excellence, Integrity, Passion, Proactivity, Togetherness & Trust.**

**Our Commitment**

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel safe, supported and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us and our successes. Attracting diverse teams, we believe in creating an inclusive, respectful organisational culture for our colleagues and future talent.

Find out more: Wincanton champions a diverse workforce

Wincanton is a leading supply chain partner for British business, providing supply chain solutions up and down the country. Through a wealth of experience and knowledge Wincanton provides business critical services including storage, handling and distribution; high volume eFulfilment; retailer ‘dark stores’; two-person home delivery; fleet and transport management; and network optimisation for many of the UK’s best-known companies.