Payroll Advisor

The role sits within the Financial Services function of WSP Shared Services.  The primary focus is assisting in the seamless and accurate delivery of our UK and Ireland based payrolls, supported by an effective and efficient payroll service to over 10,000 employees.

The role requires excellent accuracy and attention to detail and will be ideally suited to someone who is seeking to develop their payroll knowledge and technical competencies. The role will revolve around time and processing pressures and as such, commands strong organisations and prioritisation skills.

A little more about your role…

• Responsible for the accurate and timely processing of all changes impacting the monthly payroll.

• Responsible for monitoring cut-off dates and ensuring all information is received in advance of the prescribed deadlines.
• Liaising where required with representatives from the HR department to ensure all information is received as required.
• Sound awareness of tax and National Insurance calculations, understanding the manual calculation of these and all other statutory deductions.
• Strong knowledge of pensions and salary sacrifice schemes.
• Good appreciation for all statutory obligations within the Payroll function, including all e-filing submission and payment obligations.
• Potential to assist with production of the P11d Benefit in Kind returns, including inputting into the P11d software and reconciliations to car fleet and health benefit registers.
• Potential to assist with some Pensions scheme administrations.
• Potential to be involved in projects such as TUPE in/out and annual events
• To assist in the provision of specific information on request including: requests by external and internal audits; information in support of mortgage requests; data for the National Statistic Office on request
• Responsible for ensuring the successful delivery of the Payroll Services helpdesk, a tool for managing queries raised, relating to income tax, national insurance, pensions and general employee enquiries
• Responsible for ensuring all assigned Helpdesk queries are resolved within SLA.
• Other responsibilities as requested on an ad-hoc basis by the Payroll Manager or other members of the Finance and/or HR teams

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…

Key Requirements:

• Experience of working within a busy Payroll Department within a medium to large organisation.
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills
• ERP systems literate.
• Ability to use own initiative to solve everyday issues.
• Ability to manage time and work to deadline pressures.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to demonstrate a systematic and procedural approach.
• Customer service facing.

Competencies:

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate professionally with colleagues, customers and business partners.
• The desire to work as part of a team.
• Experience of working within a people focused business.
• Good working knowledge of MS office tools particularly with Excel and Word.

Behaviour:

• Ensure full ownership is taken for all areas of responsibility, demonstrating pro-activeness across these areas.
• Flexibility, enthusiasm and commitment.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Timeliness.
• A self-starter with initiative and able to set own priorities.
• Ability to work well in a team environment and develop relationships and rapport with external customers and internal colleagues.
• Proactively seeks opportunities for self development