Payroll Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Managing casual and temporary workers and freelancers during the payroll lifecycle under the leadership of the Payroll Manager and alongside the HR Services Payroll team, this includes:

• Liaising with HR Advisors and Event Administrators and Production Managers to gather personal data, a mixture of timesheets, spreadsheets and individual freelancer invoices;
• Payroll entry and checks, to ensure accuracy;
• Overseeing data entry after variable updates on the ADP Freedom payroll system;
• Reviewing pre-commit reports from ADP for tax codes, tax and NI deduction details;
• Liaising with Accounts and answering queries where necessary;
• Responding to employee and line manager queries and escalating when necessary;
• Assisting with post payroll filing;
• Assisting with the transition of data to the vendor management system (Fieldglass);
• Any other ad-hoc projects
• Meeting monthly deadlines for payroll processing;
• Minimising employee queries following payroll runs;

Key Skills:

• Extensive payroll experience, especially processing timesheets & holiday pay calculations
• Experience of using ADPFreedom or a similar payroll system
• Good understanding of HMRC's guidelines;
• Experience of database management;
• Payroll and HR databases administration
• Advanced level of Excel experience (e.g. formulas and VLOOKUPS)
• Excellent attention to detail;
• Numerate;
• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure whilst maintaining appropriate service levels;
• Strong team player - work closely with the business and wider HR Team;
• Proactive and able to prioritise own workload;

Desirable

• Experience of high volume data
• Experience of processing payroll from variety of data sources
• Knowledge of PAYE vs self-employed

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the high volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to everyone. If you have not heard from us within 5 working days of sending your CV then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for the position you have applied for.