Payroll Coordinator
Wood
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Aberdeen • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Liaising with the Admin team to ensure new starts are set up in the payroll system correctly
- Importing timesheets and expenses into the payroll system
- Processing weekly payroll for UK PAYE workers
- Processing requests for leave and statutory payments including but not limited to SSP, SMP, SAP, and SPBP
- Ensure system records are accurate and audited at regular intervals to ensure quality control
- Inputting of all data across the range of RHI systems and liaising with Admin, Contractor Assurance, and Finance teams to ensure all information is accurate
- Adheres to payroll policies and procedures and complies with relevant law
- Identifies, investigates, and resolves discrepancies in timesheet and payroll records
- Completes payroll reports for record-keeping purposes
- Answering timesheet/payroll queries and escalating as required
- Ensure system records are accurate and audit at regular intervals to ensure quality control
- Pension Auto-enrolment for statutory pension requirements, balancing of contributions, and administering payment to pension providers
- Process payments to Ltd company contractors in line with HMRC guidance in relation to offshore and overseas working.
- Raise and co-ordinate payments required outside of the payroll
Requirements
- Higher grade or equivalent in English and Mathematics
- Payroll Technician Certificate or equivalent
- Ideally a minimum of 2 years of experience gained within a payroll function
- Experience of high-volume contingent workforce payroll
- High level of skills in MS Excel including vlookups and Pivot tables
- Techincal skills required with an aptitude in using software products of varying complexity
- Ability to process manual calculations
- Good understanding of pensions and auto-enrolment
- Knowledge of payroll legislation and the awareness of changes that affect contingent workers
- Experience in a customer-facing role
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
payroll processingdata inputmanual calculationshigh-volume payrollMS ExcelvlookupsPivot tablespension administrationdiscrepancy resolutionpayroll reporting
Soft skills
communicationproblem-solvingattention to detailcustomer serviceorganizational skillscollaborationquality controlinvestigative skillstime managementadaptability
Certifications
Payroll Technician Certificatehigher grade in Englishhigher grade in Mathematics