Senior Payroll Advisor - FTC

Package

• £33,990 per annum
• Fixed term contract - 6 months
• 5.6 weeks paid holiday per year including bank and public holiday allowance rising to 6.6 weeks upon 5 years' service
• Contributable Company pension scheme

Employee benefits: 

• MyHB employee benefits platform with access to:
  • Retail and leisure discounts plus hundreds more 
  • Free Financial Advice 
  • Bank your savings into an ISA
  • 24/7 confidential counselling and advice line 
  • Low cost voluntary insured health plans
• Onsite subsidised Health and Fitness Centre
• Onsite canteen
• 10% store discount
• Free car parking

Job Introduction

We are looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Advisor to join our busy and fast-paced Payroll Team based in our Liverpool Head Office.

The successful candidate will be able to thrive under pressure and provide support across all payroll functions. You will work within a dynamic team to ensure accurate and efficient weekly and monthly payroll runs for approximately 30,000+ employees. We are looking for someone who is confident with processing varying quantities of data and has exceptional attention to detail.

Experience with ResourceLink (Zellis) is highly desirable.

As we are a retail business, you would be required to work bank holidays to ensure weekly processing and reporting deadlines are satisfied. 

Job Overview

• Significant contribution to activities set out on the Payroll plan which include annual activities, e.g. Year-end; holiday year end; tax year end; P11D’s; Annual Salary Review implementation and one-off projects and pieces of work.
• Input to payroll team processes, recommending improvements, documenting processes and process changes and developing the wider team on payroll processes.
• Analysis of Payroll accuracy data, inputting to action plans that drive improvements and efficiencies.
• Undertake all payroll processing activities:
• New starter processing
• Statutory payments and amendments
• Time and attendance processes (manual and automated)
• Processing emergency CHAPS payments
• Payslip uploads
• Calculating under and over payments
• Investigating invalid bank details and duplicate post codes
• P32 completion
• Average holiday pay checks
• National minimum wage checks and processes
• BACS process
• Notifications to HMRC (e.g. Company Car changes)
• Processing Employer Payment and Full Payment submission files
• Processing a range of Payrolls (weekly, 4-weekly, monthly)
• New Stores and DC set up’s
• Provision of excellent customer services – responding to pay queries appropriately; spotting trends in queries.
• Maintaining up to date knowledge of legislation and tax impacting Payroll processes, sharing updates with wider team and advising on processes changes as required.
• Supporting the Payroll Manager with wider team management responsibilities, overseeing the team activities when the Payroll Manager is on annual leave.
• Maintenance of confidentiality of information in compliance with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) including the development and maintenance of information management and record-keeping systems related to areas of responsibility

Minimum Criteria To Apply

• • Experience as a Payroll Advisor in a business operating multiple payrolls
  • Experience working with a range of time and attendance processes (UKG Dimensions – desirable)
  • Excellent communication skills, with experience providing advice and support over the phone
  • Ability to priorities a wider range of tasks – day to day Payroll activity and project related tasks
  • Highly numerate and accurate
  • Professional integrity with experience working with highly confidential information  
• Team player, with ability to work as part of a team and take on a lead role as required

About The Company

TJ Morris Limited trading as Home Bargains is a privately owned family run discount retailer selling top brands at the lowest possible price on the UK high street.

Having started 45 years ago in Liverpool our customers continue to be at the heart of everything we do and throughout our 580 stores we have over 5 million customers each week.

With plans to increase our store portfolio to 1,000 stores throughout the UK we are a fast-paced retailer opening 50 stores a year (nearly one every weekend) - and we wouldn't have it any other way!