Payroll Administrator - 6 Month Ftc

Payroll Administrator - 6 Month FTC

Hybrid role, working from home with at least once monthly visits to BCA Blackbushe

Up to £25,000 per annum dependant on experience level + bonus + benefits

As a Payroll Administrator at BCA, you will assist with administration and transactional duties in the delivery of an effective professional, customer-centric service to all employees and stakeholders across the BCA group. You will work as part of team providing advice and guidance to a range of employee life cycle activities including employees queries and supporting the overall delivery of an accurate and timely payroll.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the efficient processing of payroll transactions e.g.: statutory absences, voluntary deductions, court orders, ex gratia payments etc. in an accurate and timely manner for all BCA group employees. Ensuring compliance with HMRC legislation and Company policies and being accountable for all employees’ data, accuracy of pay and record keeping in accordance with Data Protection and Employment Law.
• Ensure all overtime and absence instructions from T&A or other means are processed correctly
• Process P45’s and new starter declaration forms in a timely manner.
• Comply with all statutory guidance both existing and future changes i.e., calculations for holidays, SMP, SSP, SPP, P11D and P60s
• Ensure employee records are maintained and accurately reflect any agreed changes
• Responsible for processing Tax code and Student loan notifications via HMRC RTI functionality
• Responsible for extracting and processing T&A extracts
• Responsible for notifying statutory bodies such as county courts when an employee has left
• Responsible for reviewing exception reports such as sickness, salary etc and pay calc’s messages, to identify further payroll transactions, ensuring identified transactions are processed in accordance with the departmental procedures.
• Responsible for interpreting payroll transactions and resolving data queries accurately where appropriate, whilst ensuring all data protection criteria are always met.
• Reviewing, resolving, and processing of rejections ensuring corrective actions and justifications are processed and documented in accordance with the internal checking procedures.
• Responsible for completing and distributing statutory and third-party forms / requests within agreed timescales, including SSP1, SMP1, Insurance letters etc.
• Provide day to day support to team members, such as contingency cover for holiday and absence; undertaking tasks relating to the processing of payroll transactions to achieve delivery to the agreed timescales
• Identify trends to enable continuous service and efficiency improvements and actively assists the Management team in continuous service and efficiency improvements projects.
• Using your professional judgement escalate and make the Payroll Lead aware of issues as they arise during the payroll processing cycle.
• Contribute to the development, implementation and maintenance of relevant processes, procedures and work instructions in-line with best practice and organisational priorities.
• Contribute to the development of best practice in the use of Resourcelink, Oracle & Kronos for associated payroll transactions.
• Using your experience to process and manage data from the different stages of the business. This will include data cleansing, GDPR compliance, document retention and handling.

Key Skills

• 1-2 years Payroll Administration experience covering all aspects of Payroll processing
• Experience of developing continuous improvement payroll projects
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent relationship building capability
• Good understanding of payroll legislation including, Expenses, Directors NIC, etc.
• Excellent level of knowledge and PC Skills including usage, manipulation and analysis of spreadsheets, word and excel.
• Good understanding of People team, company terms and conditions and Pay Procedures for BCA group companies and their impact to employees and payroll
• Sound awareness of company policies with ability to interpret their impact on the employee