Senior Payroll Advisor

Unw Llp; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking for a Senior Payroll Advisor to oversee payroll processing. In this role, you will handle various payrolls, ensure client satisfaction, and support junior members. Strong Excel skills and attention to detail are essential. The firm offers a supportive environment, hybrid working options, and generous employee benefits.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Life assurance

Enhanced maternity pay

Private medical care

31 days holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Paid volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience of working in a senior position processing payroll.
• Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently on various payrolls.

Responsibilities

• Process end-to-end weekly and monthly payrolls for various organizations.
• Set up pension schemes and provide data to clients.
• Manage client queries and support junior team members.

Skills

Attention to detail

Interpersonal skills

Flexible approach

Time management

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Outlook

Payroll systems

Job description

Due to recent growth, our payroll team are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Senior Payroll Advisor to work from our city centre office.

The role at a glance

As an integral part of the payroll service team, they will work with the Payroll Assistant Managers to ensure all payroll tasks are completed to a high standard and meet the needs of clients.

What makes UNW a great place to work?

When we ask our team members what makes UNW a great place to work, time and time again they say it’s the people that they work with.

Supportive, friendly, progressive, flexible, inclusive, welcoming, approachable, ambitious, caring and fun are just some of the words they use to describe UNW’s culture.

And it’s that unique culture, built on hard work and a commitment to providing the very best service to our clients that sets us apart from others and attracts some of the brightest and most experienced talent to UNW.

Based in the very heart of Newcastle city centre, we are committed to creating a thriving environment in which everyone feels valued and proud of their work. No gimmicks, just strong support and genuine opportunities to develop.

What you’ll be doing

• Process end-to-end weekly and monthly payrolls for organisations of varying sizes and complexities.
• Set up pension schemes with various pension providers, providing calculations and distributing of necessary data.
• Work with clients to understand their needs and build excellent professional relationships.
• Reconciliations/manual calculations and client queries.
• Supporting Junior members of the team, helping with queries and training when required.

Who are we looking for?

Job specific:

• Experience of working in a senior position processing payroll.
• Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail is essential.
• Ability to work independently on various payrolls, ideally with experience of end-to-end payroll processing experience.

Technical:

• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office packages – particularly Excel (import/export) and Outlook.
• Ability to transfer data from a payroll system to Microsoft Excel and or other payroll systems.
• Knowledge of Bacs payment process.

Personal:

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team.
• A willingness to provide the best service possible to clients with a flexible approach to tasks required to allow you to support the wider payroll team.
• Have an organised, thorough, and diligent approach to work, with the ability to prioritise and manage deadlines effectively.
• Act in a trustworthy capacity at all times and demonstrate superb integrity.
• Due to the nature of work in a professional services firm and in particular the need to meet client deadlines, flexibility and strong time management skills are essential.
• Contributory pension scheme (provided by Standard Life) with matched employer contributions of 5% employee and 5% employer.
• Company sick pay for up to 3 months at above statutory rate for days of sickness absence.*
• Life assurance (from day 1) at three times annual salary.
• Enhanced maternity pay.*
• Enhanced paternity pay.
• Private medical care available (employee pays premiums) at a discounted rate through group membership of Vitality health care.
• Investors in People, gold level accreditation.
• 31 days holidays (inclusive of Bank Holidays and Christmas shutdown).
• Increased holiday based on length of service (up to 5 extra days).
• The ability to purchase additional holidays every year (in April).
• Annual payment of professional subscription.
• Discounted shopping – full access to a discounted shopping app offering discounts at hundreds of retailers (shops, restaurants and holiday companies) online and in store.
• A confidential Employee Assistance Programme helpline available 24/7, including free face to face and online therapy – Spectrum Life.
• Wellbeing platform with health and wellbeing podcasts, recipes and fitness programs.
• Cycle to work scheme available.
• Interest free season ticket loans.
• Free eye tests and a contribution towards glasses, free flu vouchers.
• Recruitment referral scheme – when you introduce us to someone who we recruit.
• Paid volunteering days for all employees.
• Free tea, coffee, and soft drinks.
• TFI lunches every month.
• Fruits available all year round.
• Charity matched funding donations for employees taking part in charitable events.
• Sports and social club who arrange free events – pizza nights, quiz evenings etc.
• Employee-led wellbeing committee.
• Fully expensed Christmas meal, firmwide day out and a Summer party.

*Enhanced maternity and sick pay benefits are not payable from day 1 of employment.

Hours of work: Full time, 37 hours per week with Hybrid working options following probation period
Location: Newcastle City Centre

If you think that you have the experience and skills that we are looking for, [e-mail] to start a conversation.