Payroll Officer

Location- Payroll Officer - Newport (South Wales)- Salary- 41,446 - £47,365- Contract- 12-month Fixed Term Contract (Full Time or Part Time)- Closing date- 25th November 2024- Working hours
- 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday

**Who are we?**

We are a gas distribution business that services the gas infrastructure across Wales and the south-west of England. We serve our customers and communities with safe, reliable, and affordable energy services whilst investing to create a sustainable future to deliver our carbon-free vision for 2050.

**What we’re looking for?**

We’re looking for a Payroll Officer on a 12-month Fixed Term Contract to perform all activities necessary to process payroll, including calculating employee’s compensation, updating the payroll data base to ensure timely payments and maintaining related records in line with the relevant audit controls.

A critical part of the role will also be checking that the data held in our systems (SAP HR) is accurate to support the full payroll and Human Resources process.

We are also open to flexible working or part time working hours for this particular role, if you’d like to discuss this in more detail, you can find contact details below.

**We’ll trust you to**:

- Ensure timely processing of colleague payroll on a monthly basis.
- Adhere to current payroll tax requirements.
- Adhere to current statutory payments such as Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) etc.
- Ensure required deductions are made such as court orders.
- Manage the quarterly childcare voucher scheme, generating orders, checking payments and maintaining any framework orders as required.
- Be the first point of contact for line managers and employees regarding queries on pay.

**You’ll need to have**:

- Experience of operating SAP HR
- Experience of working within a payroll team
- Up to date knowledge’ of tax, NI and statutory payments
- Excellent PC skills
- Excellent Excel skills
- Good written communication, administrative and interpersonal skills
- A good understanding of HR and Payroll Policies & Procedures is desirable

We would also love to hear about anything else you feel you could add or bring to the role

**What’s in it for you?**
- The full-time starting salary for this role (based on 37 hours per week) is £41,446 however will be pro-rated to reflect the part time working hours per week
- Hybrid working
- Flexible working opportunities
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays which can be tailored to celebrations that reflect your beliefs
- Retirement Savings Plan (pension) with Aviva: 5% employee contribution, with WWU doubling your contribution at 10% - totalling 15%
- 14 x salary Life Insurance linked to membership of the Retirement Savings Plan
- “Choices” flexible benefit scheme options including corporate gym memberships, dental insurance, and health cash-plans
- Access to our Financial Wellbeing Programme - allowing you to manage your benefits flexibly to suit your financial needs
- Enhanced pay for parental leave
- Retail discounts and cashback scheme
- Annual salary review
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Company Sick Pay
- In-house Occupational Health Team
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Comprehensive training

**The way we do things**

Our Ambition, Priorities and Values inform everything we do as a business - from our strategic planning to the performance management of our colleagues. Our values underpin everything we do and we are committed to creating a working environment that supports and fosters diversity, inclusion and equity, where all of our colleagues feel valued and supported to contribute to their full potential.

We are focused on creating a culture where it doesn’t matter about gender, race, sexuality or disability; it’s about our colleagues’ skills, the way we do things and how we live our values.

**Interested?**

If you think you’d make a good addition to the team, we would love to hear from you