Steamship Mutual

Underwriter

• **Overall Job Purpose**:
• As an Underwriting Assistant, you will be responsible for aiding the underwriting team in the daily operations of the syndicate. You will work closely with other members of the team and provide support in various underwriting and administrative tasks.

Underwriting Assistant

Executive Assistant

• **Overall Job Purpose**:
• To assist the Company Secretary in providing a comprehensive administration service to the Board and Committees within Steamship, both at Club Board and Management Company level. To provide general administrative to be responsible for collating, preparing Board Papers and ensuring distributed in a timely manner.

Assistant Company Secretary

Payroll

• Serve as the first point of contact for all payroll and benefits-related enquiries directed to the Human Resources department.
• Support the administration of employee lifecycle changes, including starters, leavers, transfers, and promotions.
• Prepare, validate, and record monthly payroll instructions across UK and 5 International payrolls, ensuring accuracy, and compliance.
• Explain and resolve employee queries relating to tax codes, National Insurance, student loan deductions, and other statutory deductions.
• Collect, verify, and process overtime, weekend duty payments, and special allowances for payroll.
• Complete monthly payroll nominal ledger reconciliations and review and post all required payroll journals for all companies.
• Assist with the payroll year-end process, including statutory submissions and rollovers.
• Keep up to date with payroll legislation and ensure compliance with all statutory, tax, and regulatory obligations across UK and international jurisdictions.
• Work closely with internal teams to ensure accurate and timely flow of payroll data.
• Administer the full range of employee benefits, including healthcare, risk benefits, pensions, wellbeing initiatives, salary sacrifice schemes, and the Benefits Hub platform.
• Run pension provider reports to ensure accurate payments, and process any pay rises or changes to employee contribution rates.
• Keep up to date with pension regulations, legislative changes, and best practices, making recommendations for improvements where appropriate.
• Maintain and update benefits policies, SharePoint content, and HR systems to ensure accuracy and compliance. Monitor benefit usage and trends across employee demographics.
• Support annual insurance renewals and ensure all benefits communications and policies are accurate, engaging, and compliant.
• Complete national statistics reports on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis as required.
• Produce regular and ad hoc payroll and HR reports for business stakeholders, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.

Payroll and Benefits Administrator

Manager

• **Key Responsibilities:**
• **Payroll**
• - Lead and administer monthly UK and international payrolls, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and full compliance.
• - Ensure adherence to all statutory, tax, and regulatory obligations across UK and international jurisdictions.
• - Manage vendor performance for outsourced payroll services, setting clear SLAs and monitoring deliverables.
• - Oversee payroll governance, including monthly reconciliations, statutory reporting, internal controls, and payroll audits.
• - Main point of contact for queries relating to payroll or tax codes queries.
• - Manage payroll adjustments such as back pay, severance, off cycle runs, deductions and benefits contributions
• - Identify process inefficiencies and implement workflow improvements to enhance accuracy and reduce risk, including HRIS integration
• - Assist with annual pay reviews, including data management and input.
• - Collaborate with Finance, HR, brokers, and payroll providers.
• **Benefits**
• - Manage the lifecycle of employee benefits programmes, including renewals, plan design, communications, vendor negotiation, and governance.
• - Administer the full range of employee benefits, including healthcare, risk benefits, pensions, wellbeing initiatives, salary sacrifice schemes, and the Benefits Hub platform.
• - Oversee benefits policies, SharePoint content, and HR systems to ensure accuracy and compliance. Monitor benefit usage, performance, and cost-effectiveness, providing insights and recommendations.
• - Coordinate the annual benefits review to understand benefits offered, take-up, cost to serve and ROI
• - Support annual insurance renewals. Liaise and negotiate with brokers, and ensure benefits communications and policies remain accurate, engaging, and compliant.
• - Develop strong relationships with external suppliers and brokers, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery.
• - Manage and track all benefit related invoices and reconciliations within areas of responsibility.
• - Improve communication and awareness of benefits offered on a consistent basis across the business. Communicating any announcements and changes to benefits. i.e., Intranet, documentation for recruitment, newsletters, training.
• **Compensation and Reporting**
• - Support the annual pay and bonus review processes, budget planning, and reward analytics.
• - Produce accurate monthly HR metrics, establishment numbers, turnover data, and equal pay analysis, and UK Gender Pay Gap reporting.
• - Conduct external salary benchmarking and market analysis.
• - Preparing all the relevant spreadsheets and pay review letters.
• **People Leadership**
• - Manage and develop the Payroll Administrator, ensuring high standards, strong performance, and continuous growth.

Underwriting Assistant

Assistant Company Secretary

Payroll and Benefits Administrator

Compensation and Benefits Manager