Payroll Specialist - Blackburn, United Kingdom - Dot Recruit

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Job title - Payroll Specialist

Salary 28k

Working hours

Full time

Location

Blackburn

Job type

Permanent

What we think you'll love:

The opportunity to grow your payroll skills in a role that requires volume, end to end payroll. The role offers variety in both weekly and monthly payroll, but overall responsibility for payroll will sit with your direct line manager.
Working in a standalone payroll role within a larger finance team you get the best of both worlds
The opportunity to work within a business that offers a great benefits package including hybrid and flexible working. The role is Monday to Friday and if you want to work some longer days and some shorter days that is definitely an option, giving you agreat level of flexibility.

Your new company:

A £300 million turnover manufacturing business based in Blackburn with almost 1500 employees across 6 sites in the UK and Europe.

Working here you get to be a part of the 'behind the scenes' that contributes to the creation of various well-loved confectionaryitems for popular UK brands.

It's a fun place to work, with a team of people who pride themselves on producing exceptional work and achieving great things.

They are looking for a standalone payroll specialist to be responsible for paying all group employees across 4 UK sites operating under separate terms, so attention to detail and the ability to recognise errors is imperative.

You will report directly tothe Financial Accountant, who will have overall responsibility for payroll.

Full end-to-end payroll experience is essential. The ability to manually calculate tax, pensions and other deductions when dealing with queries will be extremely advantageous.

How you'll spend your time_:
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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

This opportunity will be great for you if

You have experience with high volume, end to end payroll
You have excellent attention to detail
You thrive in a role which requires accuracy, responsibility and efficiency
You are confident to work unsupervised but are also able to communicate effectively to work as part of a team
You are proficient in the use of Excel

What's in it for you:

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
25 days holiday plus bank holidays
Employee Assistance Programme
Access to meditation and wellbeing app
Hybrid & flexible working
Dedicated inhouse Learning & Development/Training team
Online training platform with access to 100+ training courses

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