Temporary Payroll Specialist

We are currently supporting the recruitment of a temporary Payroll Specialist for our client based in Kettering.  Our client works with SME organisation to deliver both HR and payroll services across the UK.  You will be working in a small team and reporting to the Payroll Manager.

 

•  £15.00 per hour


• Working hours Monday to Friday 9.00am – 5.30pm (30 mins lunch) – 40 hour working week


• This will be a hybrid role and will be 2/3 days in the office


• You will need to be immediately available for this position

Duties and responsibilities:

• Completion of end-to-end processing of clients’ payrolls for a portfolio of clients, including processing salary, PAYE, BACS and pensions payments  


• Updating and maintenance of payroll records for clients


• Completion of payroll administration, setting up new starters, HMRC tax codes, attachment of earnings etc


• Calculate termination payments for leavers and statutory sickness, maternity, paternity, shared paternal leave and adoption payments


• Manually calculate statutory entitlements to check the accuracy of automated calculations


• Calculation of holiday pay / entitlement


• Process P11Ds, P11d(b) and payrolling benefits


• Process salary/pay increases and calculate any back pay owed


• Process RTI submissions for clients, including NI checks, FPS and EPS submissions


• Process Tax Year End submissions for clients including issuing P60s


• Support with any required system updates, parallel runs, migrations, reconciliation and implementations

Skills and experience required:

• CIPP qualified / studying – desirable


• Previous experience of end-to-end payroll for multiple clients’ payrolls (Practice or Bureau)


• Experience of payroll software – Sage Payroll being advantageous and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables & VLOOKUPs)


•  Experience of accounts payable / receivable is advantageous


• A strong team ethic with good communication skills


• Good attention to detail and the ability to organise and prioritise tasks to demanding deadlines


• Must be well-organised and capable of working on various payrolls and internal / external clients


• Pro-active approach to identifying problems and formulating solutions