Payroll Administrator

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join a world leading Global FMCG organisation, our client is currently looking for an experienced Payroll Administrator based at Kingston upon Thames. This is a full time temporary role for a period of 6 months, working a 36.25 hour week. This role is paying between £27200 - £32k per annum, pro rata, depending on experience.

Our client is the global company behind powerhouse brands such as Dove, Persil, Flora and PG Tips.

Based in Kingston and working within the UK Payroll Support team. UK payroll is responsible for paying 7,500 employees in the UK; partnering with our third-party payroll provider ADP to achieve this. This role sits in the support team working between our payroll provider, HR, Pensions, Finance and our outsourced HR Services team to ensure payroll is processed accurately and on time for both our weekly and monthly payrolls.

Main accoutabilities:

• Work with our outsourced/insourced/in house HR Services team, payroll vendor, HR communities, Global Mobility and Global Reward teams to ensure that employee payroll data is correct
• Align and work with third parties as and when needed to ensure accuracy of payroll
• Help investigate and resolve escalated queries/issues using both SAP payroll and Work Day HR Systems
• Download payroll information from systems and cross-check against instructions, Work Day system and prior month payroll.
• Dealing with HR partners and Employees directly to resolve difficult payroll cases.

Duties

• Managing the UK payroll process for our weekly and monthly payrolls.
• Ensuring that starters, leavers and transfers are all processed correctly (from WD into SAP Payroll),
• Reviewing payroll instructions analysing results and signing off.
• Liaising with the payroll vendor to ensure smooth delivery of the weekly payroll services (supporting 2 types of weekly payroll)
• Investigating and resolving queries and escalations, for which SAP GlobalView and Workday systems are used extensively.
• Management of our PayrollSupport shared mailbox,
• Other administrative tasks such as correspondence with HMRC and other third parties, completing the monthly Office of National Statistics survey, managing the overpayments process as well as ad-hoc project administration and coordination.
• Other admin activities will consist of, but not limited to; submission of P46 monthly e-filling, collection of the daily post, filing as well as annual archiving activities.

The successful candidate will be:

Highly numerate, will have strong Excel skills, to interrogate large volumes of data

An organised, can do attitude and problem-solving capabilities.

An understanding of UK payroll legislation, previous payroll knowledge would also be beneficial for this role.

Also required is an ability to pick up new processes and software quickly and multitask in a busy environment.

Self-managing projects (with little supervision)

Tracking tasks and assessing progress

Handling data accurately & Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Strong communication skills

Working with third party payroll providers

Willingness to learn, be developed and step up when required