Payroll Officer

Job description

A Specialist college in Harrogate are looking for a Payroll Officer to join their team.

You will be responsible for providing a professional and responsive payroll service to employees across the charity by adhering to policies and procedures and statutory requirements, ensuring accurate payment every month.

Key responsibilities:

Working closely with the outsourced provider to ensure a prompt and efficient payroll and pension service ensuring compliance with legislation and reporting requirements.
Input payroll data such as new starters, leavers, statutory entitlements, charity entitlements, contract changes, overtime, unpaid leave, tax codes and 3rd party information into payroll software for an external payroll provider to process.
To provide a customer focused payroll and pension function ensuring appropriate and responsive service and guidance to internal customers and external stakeholders.
Review and ensure accuracy of monthly timesheets and exception reports to extract information into the monthly payroll data.
To support the completion and submission of all annual returns to HMRC and pension providers to the published deadlines and in the most efficient manner.
Maintain and review records of entitlements for employees across the charity such as SMP, SSP, OPL, SAP ensuring these are processed correctly on a monthly basis to determine individual's entitlement to company and statutory sick payments.
Process absence data on a monthly basis e.g. sickness absence, bereavement leave, in line with HR policies
Be main point of contact for all Henshaws employees across the charity and external providers regarding payroll queries through telephone and email communication and any other platforms.
To conduct regular checks to ensure the integrity of the payroll database.
To prepare and submit monthly and annual returns to HMRC.
To create and maintain up to date and comprehensive guidance notes on payroll procedures.
Review, generate and prepare reports and analyses when required.
Contribute to the collation and production of pension related information.
Maintain payroll and pension files in accordance to GDPR.
Undertake additional finance duties to support the team when required.

The ideal candidate will have good Microsoft office skills, an ability to work to deadlines, some relevant experience and be highly numerate.

The role is a 38-hour working week with a great benefits package of 25 days plus 10 statutory holidays.

Job type: Permanent, Full-time

Salary: £11.93 per hour/£23,573.68 per annum