Senior Payroll Officer

Liberty has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Payroll Officer to join our team. You will be home based, working on a part time, permanent basis, working 25 hours, over 5 days per week. The role offers the choice to be based and work out of anyone of our offices, therefore you need to be in commutable distance. Please check our website for the list of offices. In return, you will receive a competitive salary £21,250 (Full Time Equivalent £34,000) Plus Excellent Benefits!

We are an award-winning property services company, specialising in repairs and maintenance, gas services and construction projects. We work with landlords, local authorities and private sector companies, servicing over a quarter of a million homes across the UK.

Our approach is built on providing exceptional quality, value for money services and we work in an agile work environment to maintain outstanding partnerships with our clients, customers and wider communities. We are committed to investing profits into social purpose projects, and into building and developing homes with the aim of improving lives.

Responsibilities for the Senior Payroll Officer will include:

Responsible for the whole employee life cycle

Undertake payroll administration and supervision

Role is integral to providing employees direct communication to the payroll department to resolve any pay and pension related issues

Understanding process with a view to making improvements to benefit the company and its employees

Provide service to all employees

Provide guidance for the payroll admin staff

Undertake payroll administration and communication to employees, Line Managers, Human Resources and third parties in relation to payroll and pension transactions

Provide team support and guidance

Provide a service to all employees

Support the Finance and/or HR teams

Responsible for issuing monthly P45’s, statutory forms and any other ad-hoc payroll related documentation

Help to manage the payroll inbox daily, ensuring queries are processed

Provide cover and be back up for the Payroll Manager to ensure deadlines are met and procedures followed including all payrolls being authorised to audit requirements

Balance HMRC payments and other control accounts and journals

Balance payroll related control accounts

What we are looking for in our ideal Payroll Officer:

A good level of education, GCSE Maths & English. At least 5 years previous payroll experience required and general understanding of end-to-end payroll, pension & PAYE deductions. Experience of operating a computerised in-house payroll system. Good working knowledge of payroll and/or benefit processes, workflows and practices.

Strong administration experience along with good IT literacy including Outlook, Word & Excel. A strong team player with a highly organised and methodical approach, you’ll have the ability to coordinate, manage and balance multiple projects and meet deadlines, and provide an outstanding payroll service to the business.

We offer a range of benefits for a rewarding career including though not limited to:

• Pension scheme
• 23 days Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Liberty Sense Awards - employees are nominated by colleagues for living the Liberty values, those who win receive a high street voucher
• YuLife, includes:
• Life Insurance/Death in service benefit - 2x annual salary value
• Smart Health (including round the clock access to 24/7 UK-based GPs)
• Best Doctors to provide a second opinion on complex cases or diagnosis
• Mental Health Support, 4-6 sessions with a psychologist or psychotherapist
• Online Health Check
• Nutrition consultations
• Online fitness program
• YuMatter+ Employee Assistance Programme designed to support mental, financial & professional wellbeing including up to 5 confidential sessions with a counsellor
• Free will writing
• Reward scheme for healthy behaviors to earn YuCoin which can be redeemed on the app for vouchers/rewards.
• Exclusive membership and wellbeing product discounts
• Medicash Health Cash Plan (optional to register, P11D tax value approx £11.60 per year however allows claims for up to £996 per year) includes:
• Claiming eligible cash back on dental or optical treatments, specialist consultations, tests or scans
• Discounted gym membership
• Savings on cinema tickets, travel, holidays & retail

In addition to the above, at Liberty we look to invest in the up-skilling and development of our employees, ensuring competency and compliance to industry standards, in turn we will look to offer additional training where appropriate to give you the skills you need to deliver the service required.

Liberty strives to be a diverse and inclusive place where we can ALL be ourselves. We commit to achieving equal opportunities in employment for all suitably qualified candidates, through upholding our values of Passion, Openness, Respect and Trust, underpinned by Fairness, Respect, Equality, Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement.

Please note, only candidates who have the right to work in the UK will be considered for this vacancy.

As part of our recruitment process all employees need to be vetted and undertake pre-employment checks. For this role you may need to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check, previously Criminal Records Bureau, prior to or upon commencing employment with Liberty.

If you have the desire to work in a busy and high performing team, why not join us as our Senior Payroll Officer, click "apply" below - we want to hear from you!

Closing date: 10th June 2024 (we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier depending on number of applications).