Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist 

Location: Birmingham
Salary: £30,000 - £32,000 DOE (Plus KPI Bonus Opportunity) 
Hours: Monday to Friday – 40 hours per week hybrid – 2 days in office at the site in Birmingham.

My client is looking for an experienced Payroll specialist in Birmingham City Centre. This is a great opportunity for a Payroll specialist to join my client’s busy team.

The main duties and responsibilities will be:

• Process all employee life cycle changes including starters, secondments, statutory absence, leavers and other amendments to salaries and employee data in compliance with policy and statutory requirements
• Respond to complex payroll enquiries and assists in calculating payroll deductions.
• Perform checks on monthly reports including payroll interface errors, net variances and comparisons between payroll and HR systems
• Action complex payroll process such as: National Insurance category changes and backdates, gross ups, secondee payments and liaison with Global mobility departments where necessary
• Recalculations of previous month’s payroll and overpayments, prepare ‘Out of cycle’ payments where required
• Liaise with other HCCS teams in order to provide resolution to employees and Client’s Human Capital team
• Prepare Payroll exception reports and prepare reports for business , scheduled and Adhoc and Peer check of payment request for disbursements
• Perform reconciliations of Payroll deductions and prepares payment request to providers e.g Pensions, GAYE, Court Orders
• Perform peer check of reconciliations of Payroll deductions e.g Pensions, Court Orders
• Validate invoices in Client accounts payable system
• Recording  data in overpayments database, issuing letters/emails, and responding to queries from employees and debt recovery team - reporting etc etc
• Prepare out of Cycle payments file for approval
• Testing of fixes for defects and annual releases
• Support annual tax year end and P11D activity including system testing, data gathering and validation, producing statutory documents, reconciliations, payments to HMRC, client review meetings
• Support client internal and external audit (annual)

Skills and experience required:

• Previous experience of working in an outsourcing environment working directly with the client
• Ability to develop good working relationship with the client at all levels.
• Min 2 years of working experience related with UK payroll
• Comprehensive knowledge of payroll concepts, statutory practices and procedures
• Experience with payroll systems/databases, experience of using Oracle and Workday desirable
• Good excel skills, confident with manipulating large volumes of data
• Experience of working within a team in a busy environment
• Good organizational skills and time management
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail

Please contact Aimee Wilkins at Tru Talent on (phone number removed) or (phone number removed), using reference (1852) or you can ‘Apply Now'.