Payroll Administrator

Activate Group; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK company in Halifax is looking for a Payroll Administrator to manage payroll processing for a large team, ensuring accuracy and compliance. The ideal candidate will have experience in payroll administration and strong attention to detail, along with excellent communication skills. Benefits include 33 days holiday and health plans. This position is hybrid offering flexibility between office and home.

Benefits

33 days holiday

Health cash plan

Enhanced parental pay

Life assurance

Free breakfasts

Birthday surprise

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll administration is essential.
• High attention to detail is needed.
• Must demonstrate confidentiality and discretion.

Responsibilities

• Process end-to-end monthly payroll for c1000 team members.
• Review and add payroll data into the system.
• Process starters, leavers, and pay changes.

Skills

Payroll administration experience

Attention to detail

Experience with payroll systems

Knowledge of payroll legislation

Discretion and integrity

Organizational skills

Communication skills

Data analysis skills

Excel proficiency

Job description

Job title: Payroll Administrator

Department: People Team

Location: Halifax/Hybrid

Hours: 37.5 per week

We’re looking for a Payroll Administrator to be part of our success story.

Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain’s fastest-growing private companies. Great career development opportunities – grow with us.

About the role

Overall responsibility for processing payroll and ensuring that all team members are paid correctly and on time.

Key responsibilities

• Processing end to end monthly payroll for multiple PAYE payrolls (c1000 team members), ensuring that all team members are paid correctly and on time.
• Reviewing and adding payroll data into the system.
• Processing starters, leavers, pay changes, statutory payments and benefits.
• Action calculations where necessary for more complex situations including, holidays and pay adjustments.
• Processing and submitting relevant HMRC forms.
• Administering multiple pension schemes.
• Providing a range of payroll reports as and when required.
• Maintaining up to date guidance notes on payroll processes.
• Resolving pay queries from team members and people managers.
• Providing support across the People Operations team as required.
• Ad-hoc projects and requests to support business needs.

Skills and experience

• Experiences in payroll administration
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Experience of using and maintaining payroll systems; Cascade experience advantageous but not essential
• In-depth knowledge of payroll legislation
• Must demonstrate an unquestionable level of discretion, integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• First class communication skills and the ability to liaise with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders
• Thrives in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment
• Data gathering, analysis and reporting skills
• Strong excel skills, including v-lookups and pivot tables

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan – claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we\'ll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we’ll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK’s 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen – Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better – Be bold. Challenge the norm – make small improvements often.
• Win together – Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.