Payroll Officer
Bristol ( Hybrid)
Up to £35k p.a
Our client, a dynamic refrigeration, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning service provider, has an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Officer to join their finance team!
The role:
- Focus on ensuring all transactional processes relating to payroll are processed accurately, ensuring statutory compliance; with full responsibility for the payroll function for over 350 employees, including all stages throughout the monthly cycle.
- Delivering efficient, effective, and professional customer service, seeking satisfactory resolution to employee enquiries.
- Managing delivery in line with payroll schedule, ensuring the accuracy and timeliness of the payroll process.
- Working closely with the payroll bureau, providing them with all information needed to ensure the payroll is legally compliant.
- Ensuring any ad hoc payments through BACS are made accurately.
- Processing monthly starters and leavers.
- Processing all overtime and additional payments.
- Calculating any salary adjustments for absence, ensuring company policies are applied correctly.
- Processing and managing employee expense claims.
- Calculating any vehicle related payments and deductions, including all company mileage payments and fuel deductions are treated correctly through the payroll.
- Managing and issuing P11d’s in co-ordination with the Fleet Manager.
- Managing and administering the company pension schemes, and ensuring submissions and payment is made to the pension provider in a timely and accurate manner.
- Liaising with HMRC, pension providers and other third parties.
- Communicating effectively with internal stakeholders and maintaining a close working relationship with the People & Development team to ensure a flow of information.
- Taking responsibility to research and understand new or changing relevant legislation and policies, in order to provide accurate advice.
- Drafting and updating relevant company policies, as required.
- Journaling the payroll transactions into the accounts system.
- Producing and publishing the annual Gender Pay Gap report
Key skills/experience:
- Strong IT skills in the use of MS Excel and Office products.
- A structured and organised approach to working.
- Accurate documenting skills and attention to detail.
- An approachable, helpful and open communication style.
- Ability to work discretely and with sensitive information.
- Good problem-solving skills and the ability to identify problems (some of which may be complex) and resolve them within agreed Payroll procedures and timescales.
- The ability to work efficiently alone for most of the working week whilst also maintaining a collaborative approach, working for the success of the wider team and business.
- Payroll and Pensions knowledge covering all aspects of payroll and the applicable legislation (Desirable).
- Professional payroll qualification – CIPP or equivalent (Desirable)