Pensions Payroll Administrator (9 month Contract)

Fixed term contract - 9 months (35 hours per week). At LCP we love what we do, and it shows. We help our clients make good decisions based on insightful analysis, industry expertise, and game-changing technology. Working across a wide range of sectors, including pensions and benefits, investments, insurance, energy, health, sports, and data analytics, we help our clients navigate complexity in order to take the action that matters.

Working as part of the Pensions Administration Department in providing the provision of pensioner payroll services to deliver an efficient and effective service to LCP clients and their members as a member of the Payroll team.

What will you be doing?

• Ensuring pensioners are paid accurately and on time, in accordance with legislation and organisational timetables.
• Prepare and manage the pensioner payroll process for client payrolls in line with procedures.
• Responsible for a portfolio of payrolls to process from start to finish.
• Ensure payroll changes are recorded correctly on the work management system and processed according to agreed procedures.
• Reconciliation of payroll costs and changes against Pensions Admin System.
• Ensuring PAYE for pension schemes is paid within deadlines.
• Completion of Year end processing and distribution of P60s (including online P60s).
• Ensure payments to pensioners, HMRC & 3rd party bodies are made on a timely basis and within agreed controls.
• Answer queries from pensioners, colleagues, partners & clients and 3rd party bodies accurately and timely.
• Ensure compliance with agreed payroll deadlines and escalate any payrolls that are falling behind deadlines.
• Support Payroll Team on payroll matters, resolving complex queries and checking basic queries.
• Maintain payroll and ancillary systems.
• Provide assistance with ad-hoc payroll projects such as setting up payrolls for new clients and managing transitions to other payroll systems (exits).
• Advise and assist Client Teams on payroll matters.
• Issue payslips to pensioners timely ensuring these are sent to the confirmed up to date address.
• Check and load online payslips onto the client website.

What skills, experience, and qualities do you need for this role?

• Strong accuracy and attention to detail.
• Ability to work well as part of a team, and on own initiative.
• Well organised.
• Hands on with a can-do attitude.
• Strong math skills with an ability to spot numerical errors.
• Experience of Payroll, preferably Pensioner but not essential.
• Reconciliation of payroll, essential.

What’s in it for you?

As well as joining a multi-award winning, fun, collaborative, people first organisation where your personal and professional skills will be developed to make you the best you can be, we offer an attractive benefits package designed to promote your overall wellbeing so that you are able to perform to your full potential both in and out of work. Currently our core benefits package includes:

• Hybrid working (varies by role and department).
• Professional study support (where applicable).
• Access to our internal Wellbeing, LGBTQ+, Multicultural and Women’s networks.
• Life assurance, income protection, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption and shared parental leave.
• 26 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time working) plus bank holidays (most of which can be taken flexibly!) with options to buy & sell holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Discounted gym memberships, critical illness and dental insurance through our flexible benefits.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Digital GP services.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Season ticket loans.
• Volunteering opportunities.
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme (qualifying period applies).

We continuously strive to build an inclusive workplace where all forms of diversity are valued, including age, background, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, race, religion or sexual orientation. LCP is committed to making our opportunities accessible to all and would welcome you getting in touch to let us know if an adjustment can be made to help with your application.

This may be extra time for assessments, pre-interview site visits, interview structure or questions, or asking us about building accessibility. Whatever it may be, please get in touch with Karina Lee, Angie Lewis and Julie Newall via our dedicated email address - accessibilityaware@lcp.uk.com to discuss how we can support you with your application.