Payroll Administrator
About the Role
Sewell Wallis is extremely excited to be working with a leading South Yorkshire practice based in Sheffield. Due to expansion, they're seeking a driven, motivated individual to join their payroll function.
The right candidate will be experienced in payroll and have experience with tax queries and calculating pensions.
What will you be doing?
- Process 42 weekly payrolls and 93 monthly payrolls, ranging from 1-40 employees per payroll.
- Manage payrolls where wages may vary each period, as well as payrolls with consistent pay structures.
- Ensure payroll data is received in a timely manner from clients; proactively contact clients to obtain outstanding hours or required information.
- Complete pension submissions where required, including separate submissions for applicable payrolls.
- Holiday pay calculations
- Processing staff leavers
- Pay calculation queries
- Tax code queries
- New payroll registrations
- Pension-related queries
What skills are we looking for?
- Previous experience in processing payrolls
- Strong understanding of payroll legislation, including tax codes and statutory payments
- Experience handling pension submissions and auto-enrolment requirements
- Ability to manage multiple payrolls with varying pay structures
- Confident in dealing with payroll queries, including holiday calculations, leavers, and pay discrepancies
- Excellent numerical accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload effectively
- Confident communicator, comfortable liaising with clients via phone and email
- Proactive approach to chasing outstanding payroll information
Apply for this role below, or for more information, contact Lewis.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.
