Job Description

Role Purpose

Ensuring the accurate and timeous payment of monthly salaries for about 540 staff members. To be the main point of contact for payroll queries and to BA pay services. This to include collection of data, ensuring all changes have been appropriately documented including absence, overtime and pension details.

In addition, the role operates as a key contact in respect of absence management, HR support and company signatory.

Principal Accountabilities

• Ensuring the accurate recording of staff overtime, sickness, leave and timekeeping for payroll purposes;
• Collating of monthly variable pay figures, sickness records, and general payroll updates and providing the data to Pay Services for processing within timelines provided;
• Calculate and provide figures for enhanced holiday pay to Pay Services on a monthly basis;
• Respond to all queries relating to payroll data as raised by Pay Services;
• Respond, and resolve, staff payroll queries;
• Reporting sick hours to the People & Resource Manager on a weekly basis;
• Record keeping of all payroll data for audit an query resolution purposes;
• Build and maintain relationships with all stakeholders, to ensure effective communication about all payroll matters;
• Calculation of annual staff bonuses and providing the data to Pay Services for payment;
• To take ownership of absence tracking and ensuring appropriate certification;
• Ensure all employees attend medicals booked;
• Primary BVP and ATR user ensuring data correctness;
• To monitor effective dates in regards to probation period, temp to perm and fixed term contracts;
• Creation of contracts and employee changes;
• To ensure appropriate pension contributions have been made and to monitor auto enrolment compliance;
• Management of administrative tasks regarding payroll data;
• Assisting with administrative duties within the People & Resource department as required;
• Provide cover within the People & Resource Team as required.

Experience and Qualifications

• 2+ years experience working in a payroll role
• Excellent written and spoken English
• 5 years worth of satisfactory references and satisfactory criminal record check

Skills and Behaviours

• Self-motivated and goal driven;

• Ability to accurately process large amounts of data;

• A strong communicator, with the ability to communicate with stakeholders across all levels of the business;

• Skilled in Excel;

• Well organised, with strong administrative skills;

• Able to work in a fast paced and highly pressurised environment;

• Strong team approach;

• Pragmatic and solution focus with good problem-solving abilities.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Self-motivated and goal driven; • Ability to accurately process large amounts of data; • A strong communicator, with the ability to communicate with stakeholders across all levels of the business; • Skilled in Excel; • Well organised, with strong administrative skills; • Able to work in a fast paced and highly pressurised environment; • Strong team approach; • Pragmatic and solution focus with good problem-solving abilities