Payroll Coordinator in Bridgwater

Role: Payroll Coordinator

Location: Hinkley Point (On-site)

Contract Length: 6 Months

Salary: £45,000

Randstad has partnered with a leading client in the engineering and construction sector.

The role

You will be responsible for the collation of the time and attendance records and ensuring that the employee's timecards are complete with any non-attendance investigated before submitting to the partners for payment.

In this role, you'll be at the Focal point for on-site Payroll for all Blue-Collar personnel up to and including Superintendent.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates payroll activity utilising Time and Attendance system, Kronos in accordance with approved procedures.
• Resolves pay queries in an efficient and timely manner in support of harmonious Industrial Relations and general employee wellbeing and engagement.
• Adding New Starters onto Kronos and Removing Leavers from Kronos.
• Collation and recording of Lodge Forms to determine taxable status of employee's lodge payments.
• Receives and inputs absence (sickness) records from Supervision and holiday requests for payment.
• Determines Fare and Lodge payments at Employee Commencement, and inputs entitlements in Kronos.
• Processes required lodge payments on a monthly basis via Kronos for periodic leave (long weekend).
• Applies Travel entitlement on a monthly basis for periodic leave via Kronos (long weekend).
• In the case of pay queries, investigates for timesheet error in the priority order of Timesheet Hours, Timesheet non-Hours, and Payroll Flat File before escalation to parent payroll.
• Processes payroll corrections via Kronos.
• Processes manual timesheets for any missed-clocks, employees on Training, employees off site, and unexpected overtime.
• Where there is a matrix reporting relationship in place, gathers relevant time info from Employee's Supervisor, and ensures hours entered onto relevant payroll system.

What you'll bring

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent or competency based assessment/ interview.
• Solid IT skills across full MS Office Suite, including excellent Excel and data analysis ability.
• Has worked in either a payroll department with multiple payrolls and hence multiple pay types; or a recruitment agency environment processing timesheets; or managed high volumes of timesheets on a weekly basis.
• Previous experience working in Engineering Construction or with complex National Agreements such as NAECI, JIB etc is desirable.
• Clear and confident communicator at all levels, including via e-mail and telephone as well as face to face.

Randstad Business Support is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.