Senior Payroll Administrator

Salary/Rate:£25000 - £28000 per annum + Hybrid working
Job type:Contract
Location:Doncaster, South Yorkshire

About the Role

Sewell Wallis is extremely delighted to be assisting a dynamic, exuberant and leading business who are based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Due to expansion, they're looking for a Senior Payroll Administrator to join their team. This role is a fixed term contract for 6 months; however, this could be extended.

The right candidate will be a driven and confident Payroll Administrator who has roughly 2-3+ years of experience and can calculate high volumes.

On offer for this Senior Payroll Administrator role is a competitive salary and some fantastic benefits.

What will you be doing?

  • Support the Payroll supervisor to ensure key tasks and deadlines are met
  • Shares knowledge and experience with other team members, providing ongoing training and support
  • Knowledge of statutory legislation relating to PAYE, National Insurance, Statutory payments and Pensions
  • Point of contact for queries and escalations for Managers and Employees within the business
  • Process reviews to ensure efficient ways of working within the team
  • Process expert for the relevant payroll across the team

What skills do you need?

  • Strong communication (written and verbal) skills
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail with a high level of accuracy
  • Time management skills with the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
  • Self-motivation and flexibility with strong organisational, planning and administrative skills.
  • Integrity and Confidentiality
  • 2 years payroll experience (ideally in a retail or manufacturing environment)
  • Demonstrable experience of supporting new technologies and/or system changes
  • Computer literate ideally
  • Experience testing new functionality and training team members

What's on offer?

(The following list is what permanent members of staff are offered)

  • 23 days annual leave (increases by 1 day after 2 years and another day after 5 years)
  • Life Assurance 3 x salary
  • Company sick pay
  • Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office)
  • Friends and Family discount 30% for self and 15% for Friends & Family
  • Cycle to work / Smart Tech / Health Assurance
  • SAYE annual scheme
  • Company Pension scheme 4% employee and 5% employer contributions
  • Free on-site parking
  • Lifestyle discounts at various retail outlets

Apply 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.

Job ref: LW/6272Post Date: 03.11.25

Meet Our Recruiter

Lewis Walker

Lewis Walker

Senior Consultant | Transactional Finance

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