An opportunity to join the booming Retail sector in a Payroll Specialist – Fast Start role to join an end to end process in a collaborative work environment. Located in central Milton Keynes they are an easy commute to anyone located locally or in the surrounding area.

Client Details

The client is a well established brand that is an industry leader within the Retail sector, based in Central Milton Keynes. This is a unique opportunity to join this large multi-national on a temporary Payroll Specialist – Fast Start position. The objective of this position is to aid the team in providing an efficient process and service with effective issue resolution leading to an excellent service.

Description

The key responsibilities of the Payroll Specialist – Fast Start role are:

Running an End to End process for high volume divisional payroll
Complete payroll reconciliation and processing of various periodic reports, e.g. pension leavers, sales bonus processing and missing national insurance number
Effective communication with internal stakeholders
Perform all payments as required to ensure compliance to regulations
Research and resolve employee pay and time issue
Working collaboratively with HR to ensure all starters, leavers and similar processes are executed correctly
Supporting payroll transactions with appropriate levels of approvals
Support Payroll Lead and wider HR Services team with special projects as directed.
Conduct ad hoc analyses as applicable.
Provide support for critical HR initiatives as needed Profile

The successful candidate for the Payroll Specialist – Fast Start will:

Be immediately available or have a similarly short notice period
Have previous experience of Payroll and HR in a similar role
Have run an End to End payroll for a large payroll
Be well versed in Manual Calculations to resolve payroll queries
Be well versed on statutory payments (SSP, SMP, SPP)and other UK Legislation
Be well organised and detail meticulous in nature
Superb IT skills with proficiency in Excel and other softwares (Workday preferred)
Experience of delivering on SLA's and working with third party providers
Ability to communicate successfully with other responsible parties
Deliver excellent customer service and communicate effectively across departments
Have understanding of common HR and service centre technologies

Job Offer

An easily commutable location in central Milton Keynes working for a name brand in a progressive customer focused team