Payroll Advisor

Robert Walters: Public Sector Division – Education Sector – Payroll Advisor – Home Based Occasional Meetings in Staffordshire – Permanent – Up to £38,000 per annum depending on experience

Role: Payroll Advisor

Type: Permanent

Working: Home Based – This role is also able to offer flexible working hours or term time only hours

Salary: Up to £38,000 per annum plus exceptional pension contribution

Essential Criteria: Knowledge of running Payroll for an organisation that have strict salary bandings, eg. Education, Government, NHS, Housing sectors etc.

Security Check: A DBS will need to be processes for this role

Qualifications: Payroll qualification (desirable)

Duties of the Payroll Advisor:

• Ensures the accurate and timely processing of payroll without an SBM and provides cover if an SBM is absent from work, supporting the induction training of new SBMS

• Ensures the correct authorisation is in place for all transactions, complying with Scheme of Delegation

• Maintains records of any pay changes, variations of amendments monthly when processing payroll

• Sets up new starters to the payroll system, creating an accurate record, liaising with the HR Advisor on the Contract of Employment, and ensuring all essential data is provided to the payroll provider, This would also include uploading P45s, HMRC Checklists to payroll system

• Process leavers from the payroll including calculating final payments and holiday adjustments and redundancy

• Records absence (sickness, maternity etc) and ensures sick pay is paid in compliance with regulation and in line with policy

• Monitors and records temporary amendments eg overtime, casual hours ensuring required paperwork is completed to evidence these changes

• Ensure correct deductions are processed eg student loans, salary sacrifice schemes, childcare vouchers etc.

• Supports staff with tax related pay issues, being the liaison between HMRC, Payroll and employees and manages annual pay progression uplifts, include but not limited to cost of living, apprenticeship uplifts

• Handle submission of monthly pension contributions when necessary: Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS)

• Work with Pensions Manager with submitting Pensions Opt Out Forms to relevant payroll provider for processing

• First point of contact for employee queries

• Performs year end tasks eg supports production of P60s, keeps a breath of annual changes to Tax Code and NI Updates

• Liaises with payroll provider to ensure query resolution and deadlines are met in line with the SLA

• Ensures employees have access to online payslips and they have an understanding of their pay

• Collates information for national reports: Gender Pay Gap, Trade Union Facilities Time, Pay Progression

• Supports the collation of data for Subject Access Requests (SARs), and Freedom of Information requests

• Ensures information requests by the Office of National Statistics are fulfilled by the deadline

If you are interested in this position please forward a CV to lauren.freeman@robertwalters.com and applications will be contacted in order of receipt. If you haven’t heard within 72 hours sadly on this occasion you have been unsuccessful.