Payroll Administrator

Walker Morris; West Yorkshire; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

Are you an experienced Payroll Administrator seeking a challenging role within a commercial law firm with a particular focus on payroll and reporting?

As a Payroll Administrator, you will play a pivotal role in driving the success of our organization by providing essential support to the People & Culture function. You'll manage payroll processes, maintain HR systems, and deliver meaningful insights through data analysis and reporting. Your attention to detail and technical expertise will ensure our People & Culture operations run seamlessly.

As the first point of contact for payroll & HR queries, you will adopt a customer-focused approach, fostering key relationships and delivering exceptional service to stakeholders.

As the Payroll Administrator you will:

You will operate as a generalist in the team working across various HR workstreams, but specialising in payroll and reporting administration.

Payroll

• Accurate and timely end-to-end processing of all required payroll changes, in line with the payroll timetable, using the in-house payroll system.
• Add new joiners, process leavers and holiday pay, process variable pay including overtime, absence and maternity.
• Import and export data from and to HMRC, including RTI, maintaining compliance with HMRC legislation.
• Process pension auto enrolment and third-party submissions.
• Reconcile all payroll variations and investigate any queries.
• Prepare the month-end reports for the finance team.
• Produce the end-of-year P60 and P11d as required.
• Ensure process notes are regularly reviewed and updated with any improvements or changes that are made.
• Provide professional first point of support for payroll queries across the firm.
• Provide administrative support to the People and Reward Advisor as required.
• Respond to data requests from across the department and the wider firm to facilitate the day-to-day running of the firm.
• Audit the payroll & HR system to ensure data is captured consistently and both systems remain accurate and up to date.
• Enter and maintain learning records, using regular reports to monitor and chase e-learning completion rates.

Reporting

• Develop and maintain a suite of reports to monitor KPI's such as employee turnover, working time lost, training compliance etc, use excel to analyse data to identify patterns and present meaningful insights.

HR

• When needed, provide interim support and cover for the People & Culture Administrator (Generalist) by acting as a first point of contact for enquiries, coordinating and facilitating the onboarding process for new hires, and maintaining information within our HR, Payroll and L&D systems to ensure accurate data entry and reporting.

Learning & Development

• Managing new starter training plan enrolment.
• Run and analyse regular L&D reports to monitor and drive compliance with mandatory training and new starter induction training.
• Update the L&D system to ensure training attendance and learning records are accurate and up to date.
• Issue feedback request forms to training attendees, capturing insight and regularly reporting feedback to L&D Business Partner.
• Provide ad-hoc support to the wider L&D team which will include sending course reminders, coordination of the L&D calendar, management of invoices etc.

We are looking for:

Essential:

• Previous payroll experience of full end-to-end processing.
• Knowledge of UK payroll legislation.
• Strong attention to detail and organisational skills.
• Proficient use of Excel with an ability to translate long reports into meaningful insights.

Beneficial:

• Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals qualification.
• Experience of IRIS Payrite and Cascade or similar HR and Payroll systems.

Some of our benefits include:

• Salary reflective of your experience.
• Earn up to 10% of your salary with our annual bonus scheme.
• Minimum of 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays per year increasing to 31 days with length of service, with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• Auto enrolled into the workplace pension scheme, and we'll contribute a minimum of 6% of your salary.
• 4x your annual salary in the event of a death in service.
• Hybrid and flexible working for most roles with 40-60% of your time spent in the office.

Further details of our benefits package can be found here.

Company Values

Our shared values represent our culture and the things that are important to us. They define who we are as a Firm, as an employer and what we expect of our people. They provide direction and purpose by influencing the decisions that we make and the actions that we take. It’s really important that all candidates and employees demonstrate these values in their day-to-day activities:

• Embrace the fact everyone is different and unique.
• You can be serious without wearing a suit.
• Never lose sight of the bigger picture.
• Two heads are better than one.
• Take the bull by the horns.
• We win & lose together.

Walker Morris is committed to being an inclusive employer. Our aim is to ensure our workforce represents our diverse society. We recognise that everyone brings their own unique capabilities and experiences to their work. We welcome applications regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, neuro diversity or disability status, family or parental status, race, religion or ethnicity.

We take great pride in being a Disability Confident Employer. If you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Click here to find out more about our diversity and inclusion work.