Robert Half
Payroll Specialist – £34000 per annum – 4 days from home – Leatherhead – 6 Month FTC
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Payroll Specialist to join our clients community hub team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the organisation's core operations and ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services.
Key Responsibilities:
- Input of data to the HRIS, ensuring accuracy, compliance and consistency
- Assist with daily quality checks and cyclical reporting of salary information, interpreting anomalies and liaising with a variety of internal stakeholders to remediate or highlight issues or where action is required
- Manage escalated queries from the payroll team inbox, coaching and mentoring front line staff in resolution. This may involve complex calculations spanning many months
- Assist with the calculation and recovery of salary overpayments in an empathetic manner
- Support the Head of Payroll in the finalisation of the monthly pay cycle and processing of third-party deductions and payments
- Maintenance of absence schedules and reporting to ensure accurate record keeping
- Monthly review of pay data, removal of duplicate or erroneous entries and liaising with home managers to resolve queries
- Analysis of complex queries that require manual intervention and/or calculation, escalating to senior colleagues when required
- Identification of risks and inefficiencies, ensuring these are appropriately recorded and mitigated where possible
Requirements:
- Experience using MHR iTrent is desirable
- Has worked within a complex pay landscape, with multiple terms and conditions affecting pay, and TUPE situations
- Intermediate Excel skills (look ups, pivot tables, IF statements)
- Excellent knowledge of payroll legislation and compliance topics
- Happy dealing with volume transactions and enquiries
- DC pension administration experience desired
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