Payroll Officer

Do you have an understanding of payroll? Can you administer/process PAYE, tax and national insurance? Can you process payrolls accurately and to deadlines? Are you excellent with numbers, detail, and accuracy? Can you work in a busy team environment where the workload is high?

We are looking for a Payroll Officer to provide administrative support to the Payroll team to ensure our weekly and monthly payrolls are processed accurately and on time. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, key areas of responsibility include:

• Collating new starter, amendment and leaver forms.
• Attaching new employees to the monthly payrolls and attaching payments/deductions.
• Setting up new pro-rata musicians, actors and children and attaching to payroll.
• Collating changes such as rent, services, subsistence and touring allowance.
• Data input of basic hours, overtime, holiday, and absences.
• Ensuring leavers are paid/deducted holiday pay.
• Dealing with payroll-related queries.

To be suitable for this role, it is essential that you have the following:

• Payroll processing experience and an understanding of PAYE, tax and national insurance.
• Knowledge of current HMRC legislation.
• Excellent attention to detail, quality, and accuracy.
• Numerate – comfortable analysing numerical data and with a good level of Excel skills (e.g., confident with formula, sorting data, summarising data).
• Proven ability and commitment to meet deadlines.
• Proactive with a flexible and adaptable approach.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

This role is offered as a full-time, permanent role, based in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Finance department works to a hybrid model. Typically, team members work an average of 2 – 3 days remotely each week, but this varies according to specific work activity and is subject to line manager approval. The normal hours of work are 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with the understanding that additional hours may be required to fulfil the responsibilities of the role.

About the RSC: The RSC strives for excellence, and values creativity, inclusivity, sustainability, collaboration, and accountability. We can offer great benefits and aim to create a welcoming, supportive environment which is happy, healthy and safe. We place great importance upon developing a diverse, highly motivated and energised workforce to help achieve our priorities. We put our values at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to building a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all individuals. We believe that safeguarding children and adults is everyone's responsibility, and everybody working at the RSC has a duty to place safeguarding at the heart of their work. We welcome candidates who will support and advocate the RSC's environmental objectives continuing to improve our sustainability work and actions both on and off stage.