Payroll Administrator

Payroll Administrator

Location: Unicorn Brewery – but may occasionally be required to attend any Business or third-party site as necessary.

The primary responsibility is to support the Payroll Manager in the accurate and timely delivery of payroll services for Frederic- Robinson Limited.

The incumbent must have absolute integrity, strong attention to detail and be able to work to tight non-negotiable deadlines.

Role Benefits

• A competitive rate of pay between £28,000 to £30,000.
• Access to a generous company pension and life assurance
• 35 days paid annual leave including Bank holidays.
• Access to private medical care through BUPA for you and your family
• A 25% discount on food, drink, and accommodation in our managed pubs
• Exclusive discounts at over 800 retailers through our employee reward scheme
• Stability in a family business that has been around since 1838!
• Ongoing training, development and career progression for you and your team
• Access to wellbeing and mental health management programmes

Main Duties

• Delivery of an accurate and timely payroll service for the Business via a partially outsourced payroll processing service (SD Worx). This includes the start to end processing for all payrolls for weekly, 4 weekly, managed houses and pensioners payrolls including expenses.
• Enter payments or increases in relation to all statutory payments as appropriate i.e. SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP, NLW and NMW and issue relevant documents prior to expiry of Company Sick pay or SSP.
• Calculate Company sick pay entitlements and payments.
• Co-operation with all areas of the business and dealing with verbal and written queries from stakeholders, primarily, employees and their managers but on occasions duly authorized third parties e.g. HMRC.
• Process any tax code changes as required by downloading these from the HMRC website.
• Where necessary the cross checking of work with other members of the payroll team to minimize the risk of inaccurate input.
• Suggest ways to improve payroll processing as and when they are identified.
• To be aware of key initiatives underway within the wider HR team to help ensure that we all work seamlessly and deliver consistent outcomes.

Person Specification

• Minimum of 2 years current payroll administration experience of working within a busy payroll environment.
• Ideally CIPP qualified – minimum of Payroll Technician certificate (PTC)
• Two or more years working within a busy payroll team.
• Previous experience of within a multi-site retail/pub environment or manufacturing /brewing advantageous but not essential.
• Thorough understanding of payroll law/ HMRC protocols and its impact upon the workplace.
• Strong IT skills and ability to manipulate data using formulas
• Previous experience of inputting to, interrogating and running management information from specialist payroll/HR software.

General

• The role holder must be prepared to undertake occasional travel throughout the United Kingdom.
• To be able to meet the needs of internal customers there will also a need to demonstrate a degree of flexibility regarding working hours. This may involve early starts, evening working and occasionally, working at a weekend.

If you are looking for a career with a progressive company, taking on interesting and exciting challenges each day, then get in touch today!

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £28,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Discounted or free food
• Employee discount
• Free or subsidised travel
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance
• Sick pay
• Store discount

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Are you CIPP qualified or have a Payroll Technician certificate?
• Do you require sponsorship in order to work in the UK?

Experience:

• Payroll: 2 years (preferred)
• Microsoft Office: 2 years (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: PR/HO