Mpeople recruitment are recruiting on behalf of our client who are a extremely well established manufacturing business based in Royton for a Pensions & Payroll Administrator.

Role: Payroll Specialist

Salary: £30,000 - 3-6 months contract with the possibility to be extended.

Hours: Monday - Thursday 9am - 5pm (30mins for lunch) & Friday - 9am - 4:30 (30mins for lunch)

Position Summary:

This role will be responsible for processing the monthly payroll and deal with payroll and pension queries.

Responsibilities:

* Administering Weekly / Monthly Payrolls with 100 associates.

* Complete end-to-end payroll process and reconciliation are from Time & Attendance inputs to Net Pay. Including any clocking exceptions that are dealt with daily.

* Defined Contribution Auto Enrolment compliance.

* Period end & yearend processing and analysis (inc P11'ds & P60's)

* Calculating and recording the statutory payments and deductions

* Attachment of earnings processing

* Investigating payroll inquiries, providing assistance and advice to staff and external bodies.

* Leavers and new starters processing

* Undertaking calculations relating to payroll queries, overpayments, and underpayments,

* Prepare various payroll reports.

* Ability to manually calculate payroll tax, SSP, SMP, Company sick leave

* Distributing payslips

* Pension Administration - Defined Benefit Scheme, New Pension Starters, Leavers, administration in line with Pension rules. Liaison between associates and external administrators. Pensions monthly reporting and Y/E reporting to all required bodies, eg Administrator, HMRC, Associates.

* Pension Administration

Job Requirements:

* GCSE's or equivalent in Maths and English

* Experience of working in a SOX environment advantage but not essential.

* Must have 5 years experience running end to end payroll process

* Excel/Pivot table experience essential

* SAP experience is desirable but not essential

* Accurate data entry - aim 100% payroll accuracy

* High level of interpersonal skills

* Customer-orientated approach

* Self-motivated and able to meet deadlines without direct, daily supervision.

* Able to prioritise workload to meet key processing deadlines.

* Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

* Demonstrable ability to solve queries

* Excellent attention to detail, numerate, and take pride in your work.

* Able to work effectively under pressure.

* Flexible and able to demonstrate lots of initiative and a proactive approach to work.

* Excellent communication skills at all levels of the business.

Please note that Mpeople cannot respond to all applicants due to the high volumes of CV's received on a daily basis. Should you not receive a response within 5 working days please accept that on this occasion your application hasn't been successful. Mpeople wishes you all the best in your job search