We are recruiting for the following position for our Darlington office
Type: Full Time/Permanent
Location: Darlington
Who we are:
Clive Owen LLP is one of the largest independent firms in the North East. With integrity and excellence at our core, our innovative use of technology and operations allows us to provide first-class service to our clients.
This role will be based in the Darlington office, and you will work as part of an established payroll team, with a range of knowledge and experience. Our payroll team offers full payroll services including auto-enrolment to 250 clients across the Northeast, producing around 4000 payslips per month. The team consists of qualified and training payroll professionals.
Our Perks:
For more information on our perks – click here.
A typical day in the life of a Senior Payroll Administrator
- Process weekly, fortnightly, and monthly payrolls in a timely and accurate manner including more complex payrolls.
- Undertake manual calculations of SSP, SMP, SPP and check against the payroll software, and complete any forms for the DWP if appropriate.
- Check information provided by clients and if necessary, raise any queries with clients.
- Run various reports from the payroll system for managers to review and rerun if appropriate.
- Produce packs of reports and place them in VC ready for publishing.
- Undertake portal publishing of reports to clients.
- Keep the work schedule up to date.
- Once confirmation is received from the client, finalise the payroll and issue remaining reports and online payslips.
- Pass any banking onto managers for BACS submission.
- Upload pension details to the relevant pension provider to meet the appropriate deadlines.
- Ensure that all payroll activities meet legislative and statutory requirements.
- Produce year-end reports and issue P60s.
- Assist managers in sending quotes for the Cyclical Re-enrolment process, following assessment by the team complete and submit The Declaration of Compliance with TPR.
- Provide support and guidance to team members.
What are we looking for:
- Have high-volume payroll experience gained in a payroll bureau.
- Have a working knowledge of payroll legislation.
- Exceptional organisational skills.
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be confident speaking to clients and colleagues face to face, over the telephone, and by email.
- The ability to check work for accuracy and have good attention to detail.
- Be able to demonstrate your initiative to solve problems.
- Be flexible and proactive in managing multiple priorities.
- Excellent IT skills, including working knowledge of Outlook, Word, and Excel particularly using and creating formulas.
- Willing to share their payroll knowledge with colleagues to aid their development.
- Knowledge of auto-enrolment.
It would be desirable if you had experience using Sage, alongside payroll experience gained in an accountancy practice. It would be beneficial if you understood the workings of Directors NIC.
To find out more about the Darlington office, click here.
If you would like to discuss this role further, email recruitment@cliveowen.com
