Senior Payroll Administrator

Foxtons as a business

Foxtons, listed on the London Stock Exchange, is London’s leading residential estate agent and provides mortgage advice through its subsidiary, Alexander Hall. With a recognizable brand, over 1,200 employees (400 at Chiswick Park HQ), strong focus on leverage technology and a 65 branch network covering London, Foxtons is a unique and rewarding business to join.

After refreshing the Management Team in 2022, the Foxtons Group is making strong progress on its growth strategy which is focused on acquisitions (2 made in 2023, 2 in 2022, 1 in 2021, 3 in 2020), growing market share and expanding its mortgage broking arm, Alexander Hall, driving productivity by investing in technology and people and growing its mortgage broking arm, Alexander Hall.

Read more about Foxtons at: www.foxtonsgroup.co.uk.

Overview and responsibilities of the role

Working within the Payroll Department, and reporting into the Head of Payroll, you will be an integral part of the team supporting employees with their day-to-day queries and processing two monthly Payrolls for Foxtons for 1,500+ employees and Alexander Hall for 100 employees.

• Working with the Head of Payroll and senior stakeholders across the business to drive change including automation within the payroll function.
• Processing high volume busy monthly payroll in a team from start to finish.
• Working within Payroll deadlines
• Processing monthly payroll data for starters, leavers, and changes.
• Calculating SSP, SMP/SPP, student loans, attachment of earning
• Processing salary sacrifice schemes including childcare vouchers.
• Responsible for processing company sick and holiday pay
• Amending any change to pay, overtime, commission & Bonus payment.
• Managing of the Payroll inbox
• Managing Pension administration, related queries, and opt-outs.
• Processing of P11D cars
• Dealing with payroll queries from our external and internal clients
• Maintain relationships with our stakeholder groups.
• Involvement in the launch of a salary sacrifice pension scheme with support from the Head of Payroll

Skills and experience required:

Technical skills

3+ years of Payroll experience.

• Experience of using ZellisResourcelink essential
• Previous payroll experience within a busy in house payroll environment.
• High level of proficiency with Excel

Softer skills

• Collaborative and a team player, engaging and able to build strong relationships across teams and enjoys working in a people-based business
• Organised and able to work under tight deadlines to meet payroll deadlines
• Flexible, agile, and resilient
• Ability to flex style and communication to cater for all levels of the business
• Able to stand back and see the big picture and comfortable to dive into the detail as required
• Self-starter and able to manage their time to meet required deadlines.
• Able to build strong, collaborative working relationship with the in house HR department

Location

• Based at the Group’s Head Office in Chiswick (see attached map)
• Flexible working offered with 3 days office / 2 days wfh