Payroll Coordinator

Description:

Payroll Coordinator

£28-30,000

Stockport

Are you a highly organised, analytical Payroll specialist who loves being busy and takes pride in the accuracy and pace of your work? Our client, a renowned manufacturing business based in Stockport, is looking for a proactive, hands-on and detail driven clerk/coordinator to join their friendly, hard-working team.

Responsible for processing weekly and monthly payroll for 5,000+ employees, you’ll need to be adept at data entry, processing hours and timesheets, running reports and handling queries. What’s more, you’ll need to be capable of undertaking manual calculations for holidays and sickness, working out deductions and able to spot errors and anomalies that commonly occur. If that sounds like you and you’re looking for a role with prospects, training and a great team, we’d love to hear from you.

Key duties will include:

Processing end-to-end weekly and monthly payroll processes, including pension payments and expenses
Running reports and cross-checking hours from time and attendance system
Manually calculating and entering pay rates, entitlements and deductions, including sick pay and holiday entitlements and issuing relevant documentation
Processing tax code changes and HMRC submissions
Identifying anomalies and being proactive in making corrections
Handling enquiries from employees, internal stakeholder and third parties
Supporting the team with ad hic duties and identifying ways to keep improving systems and processes

Suitable candidates will need to demonstrate:

Payroll experience – ideally 2 years+ in a relevant role
Experience of working in a busy, fast-paced environment
Dealing with queries in a patient and knowledgeable manner
Experience of manual calculations of statutory deductions (SSP, Maternity, etc)
Intermediate Excel skills (Vlookups, Pivots, etc)
Initiative and flexibility, taking pride in delivering a high standard of work to deadline
Strong organisation skills

In return, the company is offering £28-30,000 salary with a generous pension scheme, 35 days annual leave including bank holidays, access to private medical care, ongoing training and career development opportunities. This is an office-based role working Monday-Friday 9am-5.30pm.

To apply, please submit your CV by clicking on the relevant links. If successful you will be contacted by one of our consultants within 3 working days. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we expect to receive, if you do not hear from us within this time you should presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Grassroots Recruitment is acting as a recruitment agency and a recruitment business in respect of this vacancy. Grassroots Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and recruiter. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or disability