Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist (6 months)

Salary: £170-£180 per day

Location: Manchester Central/ Hybrid

• Are you interested in joining a supportive, inclusive, and diverse team in an international legal business?
• Do you have extensive experience in using Payroll systems?
• Can you bring your Payroll expertise to support on a contract basis?

Macmillan Davies are working again with this international law firm to find a superstar Payroll Specialist to provide additional support over the next few months.

You'll need to have a strong understanding of payroll systems, ideally ADP and have experience in processing payroll for medium to large sized businesses.

With a full understanding of PAYE, National Insurance, Taxable Benefits, Auto Enrolment & HMRC reconciliations, you'll work closely with the wider Payroll Team and Payroll Manager to ensure a timely and accurate completion of monthly payroll.

Providing an excellent customer service is key in this role so having a positive, can do approach and collaborative approach is essential.

More about the role;

• To work alongside payroll providers to ensure the timely and accurate completion of the monthly payrolls, working to tight deadlines and challenging SLAs
• Delivery of an efficient and effective payroll service, ensuring people are paid accurately and on time
• Respond to Payroll queries through the Query Management System, ensuring timely and accurate resolution.
• Process starters, leavers, absences, monthly changes, and calculate payments such as overtime, statutory payments such as SSP, SMP, Pensions and other adjustments.
• To liaise closely with colleagues in the finance department, ensuring that monthly reconciliations for budget purposes are undertaken.

More About you;

• Extensive experience of processing payrolls in a medium to large organisation
• Full understanding of PAYE, National Insurance, Taxable Benefits, Auto Enrolment & HMRC reconciliations
• Passionate to provide high quality customer service
• Self-motivated, flexible and demonstrating strong evidence of a collaborative working style
• Proficient in using Microsoft Excel
• Some knowledge of international payrolls would be advantageous but is not essential

This role is offered on an interim basis up to 6 months and requirement is to be onsite in Manchester is 2-3 days with 2-3 days working from home.

If you have the skills & experience required and available to start at short notice, please get in touch with Samantha Pepperell or apply today to find out more!

At Macmillan Davies, we're committed to cultivating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. We are a community with a broad range of backgrounds and we believe our unique qualities should be celebrated as they are critical to our innovation. It's essential to us that you bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise. Inclusion isn't just an initiative at Macmillan Davies. We strive to embed it not just into our values but throughout our entire culture and encourage the partners we work with to take a similar approach to adding talent into their teams also.