Job Description

Senior Payroll Assistant - Legal Sector - Birmingham City Centre

As an experienced Senior Payroll Assistant you will be responsible for processing the day to day

administration of payroll and benefits for a leading international commercial law firm, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in all areas of the operation. This role will include the administration of the monthly payroll processes via a SAP payroll system and include administration of company benefits.

Duties will include:

• Manage the Service Delivery of the Payroll team ensuring that all work activities are achieved to the required standards and objectives.
• Reporting to third parties i.e. HMRC, Pensions and Benefit providers
• accurate and timely input of Payroll data, this includes processing joiners, leavers, contractual changes and benefits changes, via checking of team input
• Manage queries from customers (internal and external) relating to Payroll, responding with professionalism

To be successful you must have :

• a strong technical understanding of current statutory legislation that directly relates to the Payroll function, including Tax, NI, and other statutory payments.
• Experience of using SAP Payroll or Success Factors
• Ability to manually calculate Payroll statutory deductions, (including. Tax, NI, SL, maternity and adoption)
• Sound knowledge of Excel to allow for the manipulation payroll data using Excel formulas

As this is initially a fixed term contract you must also be available at short notice and be willing to start ASAP.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities