At a Glance
- Tasks: Process payrolls, manage employee queries, and ensure accurate payments across multiple locations.
- Company: Join a leading retail organisation with a dynamic Pay & Benefits team.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, hybrid work model, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with potential for career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real difference by ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time.
- Qualifications: Experience in UK payroll processing and strong attention to detail required.
The predicted salary is between 40500 - 49500 £ per year.
Pay & Benefits Administrator
Salary: Up to 29,500
Location: Livingston, West Lothian
Hybrid: 2 days office / 3 days home
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
The Role
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Payroll Administrator to join an established Pay & Benefits team within a large, fast-paced retail organisation.
You’ll support the end-to-end processing of high-volume payrolls across the UK, Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time.
Reporting to the Payroll Manager, this is a varied position covering payroll processing, pensions, benefits administration and employee queries.
Key Responsibilities
- Process end-to-end payrolls across multiple payrolls and locations.
- Manage starters, leavers, timesheets, absences and contractual changes.
- Calculate statutory payments, including SSP, SMP, SPP and SAP.
- Process tax codes, student loans, deductions and employee benefits.
- Administer pensions, auto-enrolment and pension reconciliations.
- Complete payroll checks, reconciliations and variance reporting.
- Support HMRC submissions, including FPS, EPS and year-end requirements.
- Handle employee payroll and benefits queries, resolving discrepancies.
- Maintain accurate payroll records and support HR and Finance reporting.
- Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes and efficiency.
- Ideal Candidate
- Previous end-to-end UK payroll processing experience.
- Experience working within a high-volume or multi-site payroll environment advantageous.
- Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation, statutory payments and HMRC requirements.
- Good knowledge of pensions and auto-enrolment.
- Confident completing payroll reconciliations and resolving discrepancies.
- Dayforce experience highly desirable but not essential.
- Strong Excel and payroll systems skills.
- Excellent attention to detail, organisation and communication skills.
- Comfortable working independently and managing strict payroll deadlines.
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