Cargiant are looking for an experienced Payroll Advisor to administer, calculate, input and transmit wages on a weekly basis and manage payroll associated duties. To liaise with the HR Manager and Financial Director on Payroll related matters. To work with the HR team to advise and ensure compliance with all Company policy and procedures.

Duties to include:

Payroll


• To ensure the management of the payroll process is properly actioned and that employees are paid correctly and on time and that correct payments are made to appropriate third parties e.g. HMRC / pension providers etc.

• To calculate, administer, input and transmit payroll of approximately 800 employees on a weekly basis within specified deadlines, including the calculating any SSP, SMP, SPP payments

• To sign off all Car Giant and GMW employee timesheets on a weekly basis and calculate any necessary adjustments.

• To act as a first point of contact for all employee related queries relating to pay, tax and Company reward schemes.

• Liaising with the HR team to ensure all weekly variables are input correctly and on time, seeking necessary authorisations as appropriate

• To set up and log any debts/ deductions on a weekly basis whilst ensuring pay does not fall below NMW

• Responsible for managing Government initiated wage deductions, e.g. CSA, CAPS and tax underpayments in a timely manner

• To produce weekly reports for the HR and Accounts departments

• To ensure all new starters are set up on Fusion and Sage and process P45/P46 details

• To process all leavers on Sage and the HR database and issue P45

• To manage tax year end payroll administration and issuing P60s

• The processing of all P11D's

• Manage the reconciliation of payroll and costing files

• To produce all payroll related journals on a weekly basis for the Accounts departments

• To work alongside the Accounts department to complete end of year reconciliation

Benefits


• To manage the Company's reward schemes, which includes but is not limited to Vehicle Purchase Scheme, Ride to Work Scheme and Child Care Voucher scheme

• To manage the Company's Workplace Pension obligations in line with Auto Enrollment, which includes issuing pension contribution letters, setting up pension contributions, completing weekly pension reports whilst ensuring compliance with legislation

• Maintaining records of all employees signed up to the company benefit schemes, updating the system as necessary to ensure benefits are logged and correct

• Offering advice on company benefit schemes where appropriate to employees or referring them to senior members of staff and/or our external benefit consultants as required

• To liaise directly with third party e.g. Cobens, Royal London

• To promote other reward schemes

HR

• To assist the HR team in advising employees and managers on Company policies and employment law when necessary

• To process any confirmation of employment/statement of earning requests

• To assist in other general HR related duties e.g. recruitment, correspondences, updating HR systems

• Any other duties as may be required

Person Specification


• Previous experience in managing the payroll function independently including year end

• Sage 50 Payroll package experience

• Experienced in the processing and calculation of Auto Enrolment contributions

• Experience in managing corporate benefits

• Excellent Communication and organisational skills

• High degree of numeracy with excellent attention to detail.

• Able to identify and resolve discrepancies.

• Able to analyse information from standard reports

• Able to work on own initiative with a flexible approach to work

• Excellent computer skills incl. Microsoft Word and Excel.