Payroll & Benefits Specialist

Are you an experienced Payroll Specialist who thrives in a busy environment and takes pride in delivering accurate, timely results? Join our supportive and friendly team, where your attention to detail and people-first approach will make a real impact every day.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the monthly payroll ensuring that the data is input to the system and delivered to third party payroll companies is accurate
• Manage all benefit provision and programmes ensuring that the company is receiving best value for money by providing for and promoting to employees a comprehensive range of benefits that enable the company to remain competitive
• Manage the Group Personal Pension (GPP) on behalf of the company and its employees with the intermediary and pension provider, ensuring that employees contributions are accurate and paid in a timely manner
• Coordinate across the business and third parties and manage communication, implementation and delivery of annual processes including – although not exclusively – salary review, bonus and PUP payments, Tax Year end/P60’s, P11D and benefit reporting to HMRC, internal and external audit and compliance.
• Provide guidance, advise and expertise to employees, HR business partners, finance management, and the VP Human Resources on matters relating to payroll.
• Prepare and produce timely and accurate reports from the payroll system for internal usage such as – general ledger/management accounts, budgeting, management information, and decision making. – and for external filing such as HMRC, DWP, UK Government, ON
• Prepare payments for salaries and pay invoices for all suppliers through a PO Management system.
• Manage the payroll system including the relationship with the vendor and escalate any issues to the Payroll & Benefits Manager as appropriate.

Required experience:

• Extensive knowledge of UK payroll and ability to look after a population of 700
• Up to date knowledge of appropriate HMRC guidelines and rules around statutory payments
• Experience of coordinating payments of non-UK based employees and managing relationship with third party payrolls.
• Highly numerate and ability to make accurate calculations of a complex nature
• Ability to communicate technical pay calculations and information to all levels within an organisation and to be able to influence at all levels within the business as well as external parties
• Good standard of IT literacy generally for office use – Microsoft office skills; comprehensive understanding of Excel including VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, Pivots.
• Experience of using a variety of payroll systems to the extent of being aware of the features of different systems to be able to transfer knowledge from one system to another
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise and priorities own workload to take account of changing situations to meet fixed deadlines

Why Join Us?

• A supportive, friendly, and experienced payroll team that values teamwork and professional growth.
• Opportunities for ongoing training and development.
• A workplace culture built on respect, flexibility, and work-life balance.

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.