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Payroll Administrator

Swindon
£25k/yr
Posted 1 day ago
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Payroll Administrator

Swindon, Newport, or Stockton-On-Tees

Band B - £25,000

It’s an exciting time to join UKSBS as we transform our business to be the leading UK public sector business service provider. We aim to become a very different organisation over the next few years as we move to a modern multi-platform, digitally enabled organisation.

The Payroll Team is a group of professional individuals providing effective, accurate, and customer-focused payroll services to our clients and end users. It is a very fast-paced and high-energy environment as our deadlines are fixed and our volumes are high.

Operating flexibly and embracing hybrid working, the team meets up once or twice weekly in the office to share best practice and discuss issues. The leaders and managers work collaboratively with the team to foster a positive, supportive yet hard-working culture. You will need a tenacious working style and be comfortable in a high-pressure environment with all the challenges that working in a busy, high-volume payroll team brings.

Duties

  • Administer, input, and check payments for a specific payroll
  • Process manual overtime submissions
  • Collate Service Delivery Packs for the client and prepare the reconciliation summary
  • Process cash advances including entering the recovery into the employee’s record
  • Reconcile and upload pension monthly data
  • Calculate overpayments both manually and using QTax
  • Complete payroll reconciliations and exception reports
  • Complete the administration for childcare voucher payments
  • Prepare and reconcile third-party remittances
  • Set up templates for employee and/or third-party payments
  • Work in collaboration with other internal and external partners and customers and third-party providers
  • Assisting with resolving queries in a timely manner through a variety of channels line with agreed SLAs
  • Responsible for monthly BACS payment reconciliation process
  • Flexibility may be required to respond to the changing needs of the organisation and the service. You may also be asked to support with ad hoc projects and pieces of work relevant to your role in line with business requirements.

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  • Be educated to GCSE level or equivalent, including Maths & English (Higher than a 4)
  • Previous experience within a payroll department preferred, however any previous finance experience would be of interest
  • Strong levels of numeracy
  • Experience gained working in any Finance related environment or similar would be of interest
  • First-class written and oral communication skills
  • Strong PC literacy skills, particularly MS Excel

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Closing date for applications is Mon 5th October, with interviews taking place week commencing 12th October.

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As part of the application process, you must submit both a CV and a covering letter. Your covering letter should outline your reasons for applying for the role and highlight any transferable skills and/or relevant experience that support your application. Please note that applications submitted without a covering letter will not be progressed.

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Skills

Payroll administration
Data reconciliation
Pension data processing
Overtime processing
Numeracy
MS Excel
Communication skills
Customer service
BACS payment reconciliation
QTax
Record keeping
Problem solving

Location

Swindon, UK

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