Payroll Officer in Leeds

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The role sits within the Financial Services function of WSP Shared Services. The primary focus is assisting in the seamless and accurate delivery of three monthly UK based payrolls, supported by an effective and efficient payroll service to over 10,000 employees. The role requires excellent accuracy and attention to detail. It is ideally suited to someone who is seeking to develop their payroll knowledge and technical competencies, working under time and processing pressures requiring strong organisation and prioritisation skills.

A Little More About Your Role

• Responsible for processing the 3 monthly payrolls.
• Responsible for monitoring cut-off dates and ensuring all information is received in advance of the prescribed deadlines.
• Liaising with representatives from the HR department to ensure all relevant information is received.
• Sound awareness of tax and national insurance calculations, understanding the manual calculation of these and other statutory deductions.
• Basic knowledge of pensions and salary sacrifice schemes.
• Good appreciation for all statutory obligations within the payroll function, including all e-filing submission and payment obligations.
• Assistance in the production of payslips (paper and e-payslips) for secure issue.
• Assistance with reconciling starters, leavers and transfers into the payroll system.
• Responsible for issuing e-P60s to employees and ensuring final payments are processed to Inland Revenue within deadlines.
• Potential to assist with production of the P11d Benefit in Kind returns, including inputting into the P11d software and reconciling with car fleet and health benefit registers.
• Potential to assist with some pension scheme administrations.
• Assist with the successful delivery of Real Time Information.
• Assist in the provision of specific information on request (e.g., external and internal audits, mortgage requests, data for the National Statistics Office, data for annual insurance renewals).
• Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of the payroll services helpdesk, a tool for managing queries related to income tax, national insurance and pensions.
• Responsible for ensuring all assigned help-desk queries are resolved within SLA.
• Other responsibilities as requested on an ad-hoc basis by the payroll manager or other members of the finance and/or HR teams.

Key Requirements

• Experience working within a busy payroll department in a medium to large organisation.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
• ERP systems literate.
• Ability to use own initiative to solve everyday issues.
• Ability to manage time and work to deadline pressures.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a systematic and procedural approach.
• Customer-service facing.

Competencies

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate professionally with colleagues, customers and business partners.
• The desire to work as part of a team.
• Experience working within a people-focused business.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office tools, particularly Excel and Word.

Behaviour

• Take full ownership of all areas of responsibility, demonstrating pro-activeness.
• Flexibility, enthusiasm and commitment.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Timeliness.
• Self-starter with initiative and able to set own priorities.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and develop relationships and rapport with external customers and internal colleagues.
• Proactively seeks opportunities for self-development.

What’s In It For You?

• Work-life balance – Our hybrid working policy offers the flexibility to work from home two days a week, while also providing opportunities to collaborate in our modern offices across the UK.
• Inclusivity & Belonging – We welcome applicants with varied backgrounds and experiences.
• Health & Wellbeing – We are committed to supporting our people, giving you the tools to make improvements to your health and wellbeing through our Thrive programme.
• Flex your time – We offer “WSP My Hour”, allowing you to take one hour each day for personal activities with flexibility to make up the time earlier or later.
• Your development – We invest in your growth through training, mentoring and chartership opportunities.

About Us

We are one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms. Our 72,800 passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion. With over 9,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Here at WSP we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. Please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.