Payroll Administrator

Exciting opportinuty for a Payroll Administrator to work for one of the world's leading providers of insurance, reinsurance and employee benefits related advice, and associated services.

Overall purpose of the job:

To work as part of the team providing a high quality client focused Pension Payroll Service.

Key Responsibilities:

To process Payrolls in accordance with Payroll cut off schedule by:

Taking responsibility for ensuring outstanding processes are completed in line with cut off schedule

Ensuring payroll checklists are completed and signed off (authorised) by the retirement date

Processing HMRC tax code amendments prior to payroll processing

Ensuring returned pages are updated daily

To take responsibility for quality and accuracy of payroll work thereby minimising the risk of providing incorrect information to clients/members by:

Authorising updates to records in accordance with SLA's

Processing MMD's/Deaths/New Pensioners/Beneficiaries in accordance with SLA's

Checking all written work for spelling/grammatical errors both at process and authorisation stages

Reviewing all output to ensure we are providing the information which the member has requested

Supporting your Team Manager and other team members by:

Ensuring SLA reports are run daily

Completing all tasks are completed with the use of the Daily/Weekly/Monthly checklists

Assisting other team members with processing to ensure deadlines are met

Escalate any issues to Senior or Team Manager where necessary

Controlling the work in your tray to ensure you are aware of all your cases and when they are due.

Assist senior in monitoring progress of less experienced team members on SLA case and provide assistance as required

Ensuring PAYE reconciliations are completed on a monthly basis in preparation for EOY submissions by:

Engaging/Liaising with accounts to ensure returned payments are completed within agreed timescales

Ensuring PAYE reconciliations are produced and passed to Team Manager for sign off in accordance with agreed timescales

Dealing with queries from the HMRC

Cross team working both within payroll and across other departments.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Previous administrative experience required preferably within Pension/Payroll.
• Awareness of technical/legislative developments within Pension/Payroll.
• Computer literate
• Understanding of Payroll End of Year procedures would be an advantage.

Skills and Abilities:

• Strong numerical skills
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Effectively communicates with clients/members/third parties/staff
• Logical approach to problem solving
• Team orientated, working towards common goals
• Ability to drive own development within the company

Benefits include;

• 24 days Hols + bank holidays
• Dental cover
• Virtual GP
• Cycle to work