Payroll Officer

Stratford Phone : 0845 900 2999
Primary Contact : jobs@quattroplant.co.uk

Quattro Plant Ltd are looking for a Payroll Officer to join the finance team, with responsibility for effectively and efficiently processing both the weekly, monthly and Guild payrolls. This is a part time role, 4 days per week, Monday to Thursday.

The successful candidate will undertake the following duties:

• Responsible for processing the weekly payroll from the wages schedules, ensuring data is correct.
• Responsible for ensuring payments for Guild Personnel are processed for prompt payment extracting data from the wages schedules.
• Processing the monthly payroll within agreed deadlines.
• Processing mileage and expenses claims for salaried staff obtaining authorisation where necessary.
• Liaison with HR to ensure all personal information is integrated with QUEST payroll for accurate processing.
• Responsible for resolving discrepancies with the depot administrators/individual employees.
• Monitoring of clock in and clock out times of office based personnel; identification of lateness and or insufficient hours worked to be reported to line managers.
• Posting payroll journals for each payment run with primary responsibility for the reconciliation of the payroll control accounts
• Responsible for ensuring Real Time Information reports are made in accordance with HMRC deadlines.
• Ensuring the calculations for salary/wage deductions are made accurately and that payments to third parties are made in a timely manner.
• Responsible for ensuring electronic bank payroll runs are executed in a timely manner.
• Auto enrolment pension
• Processing P60’s and P11D’s
• Liaison with HR to ensure all absence and annual leave data is accurate and integrated for payroll processing
• Liaison with HR to ensure all payroll changes have been implemented and integrated for payroll processing
• Calculation of employees’ entitlement to SSP, SMP and SPP.
• Dealing with routine payroll queries from staff.

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Extensive payroll knowledge
• Experience of computerised payroll systems, ideally CASCADE
• Confident with computerised payroll systems and excel to undertake analysis of data
• Attention to detail
• Tenacious in approach and confident to challenge
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Well organised with a flexible and adaptable approach
• Respectful of the need for complete confidentiality