KennedyPearce is now recruiting a Payroller on behalf of a Nationally recognized FMCG company.

This role is to work in a team of payroll administrators, delivering accurate and timely payrolls for all employees, on a weekly and monthly timetable. You will be working as part of the personnel team, in a fast-moving, dynamic and challenging environment, with both internal and external customers.


The person:

• Strong commitment and motivation, with a respect for deadlines, ownership of tasks and working as a team
• Ability to adopt and follow standard processes, as well as challenge ways of working with suggestions for improved efficiency and customer service
• Payroll background with knowledge of payroll legislation and ideally studying towards CIPP qualification
• Confident communicator, able to liaise at all levels across the business and contribute in meetings
• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment, with the flexibility to deal with change and different priorities
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and to tight deadlines

Qualifications and experience:

• Payroll knowledge through previous experience is required
• Good payroll system skills; knowledge of Northgate Resourcelink Aurora would be an advantage (although not essential)
• Will require Excel skills to include VLOOKUP and pivot tables, along with general knowledge of Word and other Microsoft products
• Retail experience preferable

Key responsibilities:

• Ownership of processing payroll for c.30,000 weekly and c.4,500 monthly staff accurately and to tight deadlines, including sickness, BACS, run costing and FPS
• Reconciling third-party payments and pensions
• Understanding of flex and auto-enrolment desirable
• As part of the team, managing a shared inbox and instructions for processing
• Supporting defining new processes, maintaining current procedures and process improvements
• Dealing with queries and correspondence from internal and external customers
• Ad hoc project work