Senior Payroll Administrator

Job Title: Senior Payroll Administrator

Location: Darlington

Salary: Competitive

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

About Us:

Clive Owen LLP is one of the largest independent firms in the North East. With integrity and excellence at our core, our innovative use of technology and operations allows us to provide first-class service to our clients.

About the role:

This role could be based in the Darlington office, and you will work as part of an established payroll team, with a range of knowledge and experience. Our payroll team offers full payroll services including auto-enrolment to 250 clients across the Northeast, producing around 4000 payslips per month. The team consists of 8 payroll professionals.

A typical day in the life of a Senior Payroll Administrator:

• Process weekly, fortnightly, and monthly payrolls in a timely and accurate manner including more complex payrolls
• Undertake manual calculations of SSP, SMP, SPP and check against the payroll software, and complete any forms for the DWP if appropriate
• Check information provided by clients and if necessary, raise any queries with clients
• Run various reports from the payroll system for managers to review and rerun if appropriate
• Produce packs of reports and place them in VC ready for publishing
• Undertake portal publishing of reports to clients
• Keep the work schedule up to date
• Once confirmation is received from the client, finalise the payroll and issue remaining reports and online payslips
• Pass any banking onto managers for BACS submission
• Upload pension details to the relevant pension provider to meet the appropriate deadlines
• Ensure that all payroll activities meet legislative and statutory requirements
• Produce year-end reports and issue P60s
• Assist managers in sending quotes for the Cyclical Re-enrolment process, following assessment by the team complete and submit The Declaration of Compliance with TPR
• Provide support and guidance to team members

What are we looking for:

• Have high-volume payroll experience gained in a payroll bureau
• Have a working knowledge of payroll legislation
• Exceptional organisational skills
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be confident speaking to clients and colleagues face to face, over the telephone, and by email
• The ability to check work for accuracy and have good attention to detail
• Be able to demonstrate your initiative to solve problems
• Be flexible and proactive in managing multiple priorities
• Excellent IT skills, including working knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel particularly using and creating formulas
• Willing to share their payroll knowledge with colleagues to aid their development
• Knowledge of auto-enrolment

It would be desirable if you had experience using Sage, longside payroll experience gained in an accountancy practice.

It would be beneficial if you understood the workings of Directors NIC.

Benefits:

Agile Working - hybrid working, Nine Day Fortnight, Flexible Working *

Time off in lieu - up to and including Assistant Managers can claim additional time worked above their contracted hours

Employer Contribution Pension Scheme - starting at 4% and matched up to 5%. Can be done as salary sacrifice to earn 50% of employer's national insurance savings

Death in Service - insured benefit available to colleagues in the pension scheme up to the age of 75*

Flexible annual leave - buy up to 5 days holiday per year through a salary sacrifice scheme

Private Health Insurance - available through Vitality, to be paid directly by employees at a discounted rate

Professional membership fees - full financial reimbursement for professional subscriptions, including student membership

Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay - support available for all colleagues*

Qualifications - full financial support for all qualifications

Well-being Support - employee Assistance Programme available 24/7. A Well-being Support Team is available to provide support. Financial Well-being support is available from HSBC. Kaido is a health and well-being app

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Payroll Specialist, Payroll Officer, Senior Payroll Administrator, Accounts Clerk, Payroll, Finance Clerk, Qualified Accountant, Payroll Admin, Payroll Coordinator, Practice Experience, Bureau Experience, Payroll Executive and HR may also be considered for this role.