Senior Payroll Administrator (9 month FTC)

About the role

As a Senior Payroll Administrator for Moorepay, you will be responsible for providing payroll support. You will be communicating with clients, delivering a flexible and proactive payroll administration service in line with agreed timescales and service level agreements. Working within a multi-skilled team environment, you will play a critical role in providing a first-class, professional service to our clients, recognising the importance of everyone providing a great client experience. This role is a 9 month fixed-term contract and can be fully remote.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working in a team alongside Payroll Assistants and Payroll Advisors to ensure client payrolls are managed timely, accurately, and securely.
• Owning and taking responsibility for the client journey, always ensuring service excellence.
• Answering client queries about their Payroll or Moorepay systems via email and telephone, within service level agreements, striving for client advocacy and first contact resolution.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders, within Operations, Sales, Client Success, Marketing and Technology, to help manage client payrolls.
• Using the CRM to record details of all client interactions.
• Possessing full awareness of specific client requirements and ensuring these are documented within the payroll system.
• Completing all set tasks accurately and efficiently, adhering to deadlines, instructions, policies and procedures and training as appropriate.
• Conducting account client reviews.
• Raising system bugs and improvement ideas with technical support.
• Knowledge sharing with peers to create a team of payroll experts.
• Coaching and mentoring Payroll Assistants and Payroll Advisors, helping them become payroll and Moorepay system subject matter experts.
• Working closely with payroll processors (based in Kochi, India).
• Sharing ideas to help improve processes.
• Learning from our experienced Strategic Payroll Managers to become a subject matter expert yourself.
• Maintaining a working knowledge of current statutory and legislative compliance, keeping abreast of all changes through publications, websites, and seminars.

Skills & experience

• Previous experience working in Payroll.
• Previous Moorepay payroll product experience.
• CIPP or equivalent qualifications are desirable.
• Excellent ability in building positive customer relationships.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Moorepay HR expertise or alternate platforms (desirable).
• Experience of operating within an outsourcing service provider (desirable).
• Eager to learn and develop.
• Great coaching and mentoring skills.
• Highly organised and methodical in your approach.

Benefits & culture

Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Birmingham and Kochi (India). We’re passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself! To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.

Here’s what you’ll gain if you join our team:

• A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
• A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
• Competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more.
• You’ll even get your birthday off as well!
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.