Senior Payroll Officer

Leading automotive organisation in Milton Keynes are on the lookout for an experienced Payroll Officer to join the team!

Client Details

Our client are a market leading automotive business and have a customer centric approach to their business plans.

Description

Senior Payroll Officer Responsibilities:

• Ensure that all payroll changes notified by HR are correctly entered into the Payroll software and the resultant payroll is checked to ensure that the payments are correct.
• Producing monthly payroll journal and supplying payroll analysis to internal customers.
• Reconciliation of payroll related balance sheet accounts and ensuring all resultant payments and data loads are completed on time.
• Dealing with general payroll correspondence and queries. e.g. Tax, NIC, employees etc.
• Completing all annual tax filings, including P11Ds and dealing with resultant queries.
• Production of the annual pension return, reconciliation to the monthly payments and the general ledger then resolving any queries.
• Ensuring all parent company payments to senior executives for incentive programs and share-based schemes are correctly recorded on the payroll and notified to the individuals.
• Updating the system approvers for employee expenses.
• Ad-hoc reports and data analysis.

Profile

Senior Payroll Officer Requirements:

• Attention to accuracy and completeness.
• Should behave in a professional and confidential manner due to the sensitive nature of the data handled.
• A minimum of 5 years' practical experience of UK based payrolls with a good understanding of the underlying PAYE and Benefits system rules.
• Good time management to ensure all tasks are completed to immovable deadlines.
• Good interpersonal skills to deal with people at all levels both within the organisation and externally.
• A flexible approach to deal with the demands of the uneven workload throughout the month
• Has the confidence to raise issues of concern and, where appropriate, shows the initiative to deal with them.
• Must take responsibility for completion of tasks but also know when to escalate if problems aren't getting resolved promptly.
• A good level of computer literacy, particularly Excel.

Job Offer

Great opportunity for an experienced payroll to take a step up in the Payroll career