Senior Payroll Officer - Crick, United Kingdom - XPO

XPO

Verified Company

Crick, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you looking for your next great career move? Do you want to join a growing business whose values are at the heart of their story?

We are looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Office to join us at our National Hub based in Crick, Northamptonshire (NN6 7SL) with hybrid working available.

You'll be responsible for and to oversee the co-ordination of the day-to-day work of the XPO payroll service, with a strong focus on delivering excellent customer service at all times as well as effective distribution of work throughout the team.

You'll also support the payroll team manger to ensure continuous development of the current, and any future, payroll systems in use, ensuring the smooth flow of information into and out of the payroll system to support team delivery.

Pay, benefits and more:

We're looking to offer a yearly salary of between £35,000 and £40,000 (depending on experience) along with a fantastic benefits package (see below).

What you'll do on a typical day:

Manage and co-ordinate the teams' day-to-day tasks to ensure the accuracy, effectiveness and efficiency of the XPO payroll service, ensuring the workload is distributed within the team and all queries raised are resolved accurately and in accordance to priority and timelines
Be the first escalation point for the Payroll Specialist for complex problem solving or legislative or system issues
Ensure a professional payroll service is delivered by all members of the team and escalate any concerns to the appropriate person
Oversee manual calculations for statutory payments and ensure that the Payroll Specialist are meeting legislative compliance and high levels of accuracy (SMP/SPP/SAP/SHPP etc)
Reconcile complex month and year end processes, essential to the accurate production of statutory and other returns as well as HMRC PAYE accounts for payments for tax, national insurance and SMP etc
Correctly review pension payments per providers and ensure that contribution summaries are reconciled and formatted as per the provider's requirements
Plan, in conjunction with the Payroll Manager, the best way to implement legislative, procedural and system changes and to ensure that standard procedures are developed and maintained to reflect these changes
Assist in the training of new staff and provide training in legislative updates to current staff
Ensure NMW infringements as a result of salary sacrifice are corrected and communicated to employees and the Benefits team
Plan in advance with the Payroll Manager, tasks for the coming year. This will involve anticipating the impact of changes in legislation and how to implement those changes, planning testing for system upgrades and identifying any impact on work practices, planning for retrospective pay awards and ensuring statutory and other deadlines are met
Foresee any impact of new legislation on payroll and to help implement necessary changes
Resolve out of balance accounts, errors and payment queries, to ensure the payroll runs accurately on time
Liaise with external agencies such as HMRC, the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP), on complex payroll matters
Working with payroll manager and business to ensure continuous development of payroll contingency plan, identifying and testing for possible areas of system failure
Working with Payroll Manger and business to identify areas of payroll process improvements, and overseeing consequent implementations
Any other duties as requested by the Payroll Manager

What you need to succeed at XPO:

3 -5 years of working in a payroll environment, with experience of both 'end to end' and 3rd party service provision
Fully CIPP qualified or equivalent (Ideal)
Strong knowledge of ADP Global View/ SAP
Up to date knowledge of HMRC guidance
Highly proficient in payroll rules and regulations (experience in occupational pension schemes desirable)
The ability to ensure compliance is always met.
Awareness of project management and ability to manage and develop long term work projects
Outstanding customer service skills
Be a good team player with strong leadership skills
A minimum of intermediate level use of Excel

XPOLogisitics employee benefits:

25 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy more during the benefits windows
Hybrid workig model (3 days in the office, 2 from home)
Employee matched pension up to 3%
Private healthcare entitlement
Dental cover
High street discounts with huge brands from buying your groceries, updating your wardrobe or booking your next getaway
Cylcle to work scheme
Employee Assistance Program for you and your family through UNUM 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
Charity donations through payroll giving
And much more

Be part of something big.
XPO is a leading provider of world-class solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most effici