Payroll Administrator - 6-9 month FTC

Salary: £18,000 - £22,000

Location: Birmingham

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

The Role:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a global business based in Birmingham. They are looking for a payroll professional to join their fantastic, close-knit team to provide support wherever requirement within the payroll function. Reporting to the Payroll Supervisor, you will be key in the success of the team, ensuring all duties are handled with professionalism, care and passion. As a Payroll administrator you will be responsible for managing your own workload, ensuring all deadlines are met and all responsibilities of the role are approached through organisation and confidence.

Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure the accurate payment of employee wages on a fortnightly basis for both UK and ROI payroll in accordance with strict deadlines
• To assist with and provide cover for salaried payroll processing

• To process information to external stakeholders when required including the Inland Revenue and relevant benefits agencies

• To assist with financial reporting input documentation

• General administrative tasks including processing new starter and leavers paperwork

• To provide support to internal stakeholders with Oracle administration associated with payroll input

• Collating and processing annual leave requests

• Processing statutory sick pay and statutory maternity payments and maintaining records

• Processing bi-weekly payroll runs using Pegasus and Quantum software

• To provide support with payroll queries from employees and managers

• Effective management of records and systems for internal use

• To maintain own knowledge of current legislation and relevant changes

Requirements:

• Previous payroll experience is essential

• Experience of delivering successful results in a similar role and fast paced environment

• A self-motivated individual with the ability to work autonomously and with own initiative

• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to deal with internal and external stakeholders of all levels

• A neat, methodical, professional approach to work with the skills to prioritise accordingly and flexible attitude required to react to change when needed

• A working knowledge of payroll, accounting and Microsoft office to an intermediate level

• A basic understanding of accounting