Payroll Administrator - Southgate, London, N14 6PW

We are seeking to recruit an experienced Payroll Administrator to join our team based in our Southgate office. The role of a Payroll Administrator will see you assist with running MTVH's payroll, ensuring it operates efficiently, legally and according to required timeframes. Within this post you will also provide support to employees, management, service providers and statutory bodies where required.

The Payroll Administrator will assume responsibility for processing starters, leavers, variable payments, pensions and changes to contractual terms and conditions on a monthly and on-going basis to ensure that prompt and accurate payments are made.

Duties to include:

• Audit / process overtime, car mileage and expenses to ensure that payments made are compliant with company policy and procedures, querying any discrepancies promptly.
• Assist with monthly validation of Payroll to ensure that payments made are compliant with company policy and procedures, querying any discrepancies promptly prior to Manager sign off.
• Support the Assistant Payroll Manager and team as required.
• Provide basic Payroll advice to a large and diverse customer base that is technically sound and relevant to customer needs.

What you’ll need to succeed:

• Up-to-date knowledge of UK Payroll statutory regulations including PAYE, SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP, and National Insurance.
• Good working knowledge of gross to net calculations.
• Excellent communication skills with a clear understanding of customer focus and experience of the delivery of a business-facing service.
• A pro-active, participative and flexible approach to problem solving, taking the initiative by evaluating, making suggestions and generating new ideas to improve working methods and levels of performance.
• Ability to prioritise workload to meet conflicting priorities and deadlines.
• Numerate with a high level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Advanced IT literacy.

To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers, we will complete a Basic background check with the Disclosure and Barring service once an offer of employment is made.

Key dates: In-person interviews planned for week commencing Monday 14 July 2025.

Please note: we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What’s in it for you?

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year.
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities.
• An additional ‘Beliefs day’ once a year to have an extra day off.
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave.
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%.
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year.
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary.
• Cycle2work scheme.
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department.
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members to.
• Tenancy deposit – interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan.
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform.
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues.
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support.
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation.

About us:

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH.

Our promise: Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ‘Serving people better every day’ to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other’s wellbeing.

We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we’re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:

• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.