The purpose of the role is to maintain and run all aspects of the monthly payroll; investigate and resolve queries; and liaise with the payroll team as necessary.
Key Objectives / Accountability
- Maintain the Payroll in a timely manner including ensuring all new employees have clock cards; managing holiday cards and terminating leavers.
- Ensure clock cards are on the shopfloor each week and that the previous weeks are all added up ready for the monthly payroll submission.
- Ensure all anomalies are dealt within a timely manner and escalate any issues if required.
- Extract and ratify data from timecards on variable pay elements e.g. overtime, allowances & sickness deductions and collate accurately on the monthly payroll spreadsheet.
- Ensure approvals are in place for all variable pay elements.
- Ensure all completed payroll spreadsheets are approved
- Complete checks on the payroll reports
- Ensure that Return to Work forms are dealt with
- Maintain starters and leavers report
- Maintain absence tracker on a daily / weekly / monthly basis
- Complete a monthly audit on shift patterns and pay to ensure these are correct
- Complete a monthly audit on Company and SSP entitlements
- Respond to all payroll related queries from outside sources
- File and archive all payroll data in line with the agreed processes and standards
- Produce payroll reports
- Experience of processing a Payroll for approx 250 employees
- Experience of working in a matrix organisation and within a HR Centralised team
- Experience of liaising with employees at all levels within a business
Skills/Knowledge/Competencies:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to develop and maintain good internal relationships.
- Ability to act as a credible representative of the company to external parties.
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team to achieve desired results.
- Experience of working in an automotive / engineering environment is desirable
- Competent in Microsoft Office with an excellent working knowledge of Excel.
- Previous payroll responsibility and management.
- Ability to work accurately under pressure to meet strict deadlines
What's in it for you?
- Long term contract
- Competitive pay