Payroll Specialist - Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom - BBF Limited

BBF Limited
BBF Limited
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Blackburn with Darwen, United Kingdom

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Payroll Specialist

Competitive Salary DOE

BBF Limited

Blackburn, Lancashire

Full-time, Permanent


We are currently recruiting a standalone Payroll Specialist to join our finance team based at our head office in Blackburn.


Who are we looking for?
Are you an enthusiastic Payroll Specialist who wants to take full ownership of the process? If so, this could be just for you


You'll have experience managing and processing high-volume, end-to-end weekly payroll, as you'll be expected to process payroll each week for 1,100 employees, and monthly for 250 employees.


This is a standalone role where you'll be responsible for paying all group employees across our 4 UK sites; with 3 of our sites working on separate terms & conditions.


You'll need to have excellent attention to detail (it is people's pay after all), have the ability to recognise errors and cross-reference between separate data/reports.

Full end-to-end payroll experience is essential.

The ability to manually calculate for example tax, pensions and other deductions when dealing with queries will be extremely advantageous.

As part of the role, you will be expected to produce reconciliations, for example for HMRC, pension providers etc and to administer the various portals for these payments.


The role of Payroll Specialist at BBF

  • Responsible for the timely and accurate processing of both weekly (approximately 1,100 employees) and monthly (approximately 250 employees) payrolls, including:
  • Uploading time and attendance information into the payroll software
  • Calculating basic pay, deductions, overtime, bonuses and allowances
  • Ensuring statutory payments are paid in line with legislation
  • Ensuring overtime and expenses are signed off by the correct level of authorisation before payment
  • Responsible for administering pension contributions and ensuring compliance with automatic enrolment legislation
  • Preparing reports that summarise the earnings and deductions once the employee remuneration has been calculated for use by the Finance team
  • Resolving any payroll discrepancies that are identified
  • Running and sending FPS and EPS to HMRC to comply with reporting requirements
  • Preparing information for the payroll journals to facilitate posting into the accounting system(s)
  • Ensuring thirdparty payments associated with the payroll process (for example, PAYE, NI, pensions) are made timely and accurately
  • Providing guidance and support in the delivery of payrollrelated projects within the business
  • Dealing with other adhoc employee queries
  • Supporting the wider Finance team, providing adhoc cover where appropriate
  • Maintaining the confidentiality of employee data

Who are BBF Limited?


BBF Limited are one of the UK's leading ambient cake and chilled dessert manufacturers of retailer own label, licensed and branded cakes, supplying recognisable major retailers across the UK and European market.


Our team of experts develop and manufacture a wide range of high-quality ambient cake products across several different categories including celebration cake, mini rolls, mince pies, fruit pies and a wide range of chilled desserts including cheesecake, crumbles and sponge cakes.

These include mince pies, celebration cakes, slab cakes, cupcakes and many more

We are passionate about our products and aim to put the customer at the heart of everything we do.


With recent investment and acquisitions taking us to nearly 1,400 direct employees, this is an exciting time to join BBF Limited We are continually looking to grow, but we can only do that with exceptional talent across all levels and disciplines of the business.

That is where you come into it


On top of making some really tasty cakes and desserts, we do a lot of fun stuff too Whether that be Christmas fun days, pancake-flipping competitions, Red Nose Day events or odd-sock days, you'll be coming to work smiling.


What do you get in return?
Financial

  • Competitive salary DOE
  • Pension
  • 4x Life Assurance/Death in Service Benefit
  • Access to the company Benefits Hub
  • Access to 'Company Shop' a discounted redistributor of surplus food and household products
Health & Wellbeing

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Access to meditation and wellbeing app
  • Hybrid & flexible working
Personal & Professional Development

  • Dedicated inhouse Learning & Development/Training team
  • Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses
A few other bits

  • Free onsite parking
  • Free refreshments

Recruitment Agencies
We operate a recruitment PSL when we require assistance, and we aren't adding to this at present.

Any agency assistance will be instructed accordingly; therefore, any CVs sent to any BBF Limited employee will be treated as a gift and won't be liable for a fee.

Please don't speculatively contact us in relation to this vacancy or any other vacancy.

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