Payroll Technician

Do you have previous experience working in a payroll focused role? Can you work to tight deadlines that are in place to complete the pay run and accounting schedule?

We are recruiting a Payroll Technician to join a Medical Devices business in Sittingbourne. The successful candidate will administrate the payment of salaries for designated sections of monthly paid employees/pensioners from start to finish by agreed & published deadlines.

The successful candidates will be working 37.5 hours per week Mon-Thurs 9:00-17:30 and Fri 09:00-16:15 on an initial 12 month contract. This position is available due to a secondment, so there is the potential for this position to go permanent or be extended long term.

Responsibilities:

• Daily review of mailbox
• Supports outsourced expense department with the set up and maintenance of employees for the electronic expense reporting system
• Ensures housekeeping, archiving and files, both electronic & paper, are maintained
• Gathers, inputs and analyses all aspects of attendance and overtime into payroll system(s) for designated sections
• Assists with the preparation and timely submission of annual tasks including P11Ds and Year End processing
• Prepares and completes PSA submissions for payroll area of responsibility
• Maintains and generates earnings reports on incoming & outgoing expats and notified short term assignees etc for both internal payroll and third party company tax advisors.
• Takes ownership of specific recurring activities as directed by the Payroll Manager, i.e., company car life cycle
• Supports Payroll in the preparation of IR35 assessments and vendor analysis

Experience & Qualifications:

• Experience in a payroll environment or Foundation Course and / or NVQ level 3 in Payroll Administration
• To be able to demonstrate first hand experience of the type of issues faced in a payroll environment
• Understanding of salary sacrifice
• Irish payroll experience desirable
• Experience dealing with IR35 desirable
• Experience with dealing with Expats an advantage
• Must be able to communicate with all levels of employee from shop floor to Director level
• Needs to maintain good communication and knowledge of occurrences within the payroll department to ensure no areas are overlooked and that administration is in line with company policy and Government legislation

Randstad CPE values diversity and promotes equality. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate against any of the protected characteristics that fall under the Equality Act 2010. We encourage and welcome applications from all sections of society and are more than happy to discuss reasonable adjustments and/or additional arrangements as required to support your application.

Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK.

For the purposes of the Conduct Regulations 2003, when advertising permanent vacancies we are acting as an Employment Agency, and when advertising temporary/contract vacancies we are acting as an Employment Business.