Payroll Coordinator

£20,000 - £25,000. Harrogate

Provide a payroll & benefits admin support service for c.1,500 UK based staff, liaising with outsourced payroll provider to ensure people are paid correctly, on time and dealing with any queries professionally to agree standards

Prepare the Group's monthly payroll ensuring that all employees are paid accurately and on time each month.

Produce the monthly data file accurately (with a zero or minimal exception rate) and submit to external payroll provider in the required format.

Proactively manage all exceptions and deal with employee queries accordingly in a timely and professional manner.

Ensure accurate reporting to all relevant external bodies/agencies, e.g. to HMRC for RTI, etc.

Help to administer company benefits, including: Pensions, PHI, PMI, childcare vouchers scheme, eye care vouchers etc.

Enrolling staff to relevant pensions schemes; uploading monthly pensions data to providers via portal

Ensure Payroll & HR system data is up to date

Help prepare monthly management information, or ad-hoc reports.

Set up and Process New Starters and Leavers in a timely manner

Payroll Coordinator: Key requirements

Intermediate Excel skills required including the use of vlookups and pivot tables.

Experience of managing company payroll and associated activities.

Ideally CIPP qualified or studying for qualification

Thorough knowledge of relevant UK payroll and pensions legislation & ideally International payroll experience.

Experience of salary sacrifice schemes - pensions, childcare vouchers, bike to work

Experience of administering a range of benefits including company cars and pensions schemes (final salary and money purchase).

Experience of producing P11D statements.

Experience of running payrolls reports - ideally being able to design queries

Excellent degree of numerical reasoning.

Able to cope with a fast-paced changing environment with regular conflicting priorities.

Able to cope with ambiguity and find solutions to problems where precedent may not exist.

Excellent customer service skills to work with a sometimes challenging client base.