Senior Payroll Officer Login To Save This Vacancy

This is an exciting opportunity to be a key member of our small and friendly payroll team.  You will be instrumental in the team achieving its objectives associated with delivering an accurate, timely and ‘service focused’ payroll, providing a first-class payroll service to approximately 7500 employees throughout the UK.

Key areas of responsibility will include the following:

• Overseeing the processing of the monthly payrolls, to ensure an efficient, accurate and timely payroll is completed, completing monthly reporting and acting as an escalation point for the team on more complex queries.
• Assisting the Payroll manager with the reconciliation of all payroll general ledger accounts, including: HMRC, pension and all other third-party payments.
• Assisting with development, monitoring, and evaluation of appropriate payroll processes as deemed necessary in accordance with SOX and audit requirements.
• Assisting with the monthly HMRC reporting required to meet current legislation and deadlines as well as supporting with the full end to end process for end of year.
• Overseeing the payroll ServiceNow ticketing system, ensuring that SLAs are met and that all queries are assigned. Supporting the payroll admin team in responding at peak times of the month.

We would value the following attributes:

• Previous experience of having managed an in-house payroll system, ideally in high volume environments, preferably with exposure to a variety of payroll technologies.
• Strong technical background required to enable system customisation requirements to be identified as well as good Microsoft 365 (Excel, Outlook, Word)
• Excellent customer service skills and customer focus.
• Excellent leadership and management skills
• Ability to work under pressure to strict deadlines making informed decisions when necessary.
• Ability to prioritise workloads for self and others.
• Strong interpersonal skills and appropriate communication skills for interacting and influencing at all levels in the business.
• Previous experience of having worked in a Shared Service environment (desirable).
• Systems: Resourcelink (desirable) and Workday (desirable)

In return we will offer you a competitive salary and benefits package, including:

Employee assistance programme with legal and financial advisors as well as mental health counselling. Perks at Work with discounts in various retailers such as: Currys, PC World, Samsung, John Lewis and more Access to Mental Health First Aiders Contributory Pension Scheme after 3-month service, Cycle to Work Scheme, Service Based Holidays, Career Development and internal progression opportunities.

We offer Smart or Hybrid working with the opportunity to work from home approximately one day per week, so you must be able to easily travel to our offices in Chessington (KT9 1SN).