Role: Payroll Administrator (Chelmsford) 

Start Date: ASAP

Proposed End Date: 20th June 2025

Pay Rate: £13.65 per hour

Hours: 37 hours per week, Mon to Thurs, 8:30am-5pm & Fri, 8:30am - 4:30pm.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Support the Payroll Team in producing accurate, timely monthly payrolls, following procedures and deadlines.
• Handle administration for schemes like Cycle to Work, Childcare Vouchers, and statutory deductions, maintaining accurate records.
• Assist in investigating and resolving historical pay and pension issues.
• Help with administration of occupational pension schemes and employee benefit programs.
• Reconcile payroll outputs and reports in line with deadlines.
• Act as a point of contact for staff and stakeholder inquiries about payroll and pensions, providing guidance and support.
• Ensure data accuracy by conducting checks on payroll outputs, identifying issues, and liaising with the team for corrections.
• Communicate effectively with HR, Finance, and IT colleagues about payroll processes.
• Support the Payroll and Pensions Manager with audit-related activities.
• Collaborate with HR and Finance teams to deliver a seamless service to staff.
• Follow Data Protection Act 2018 and GDPR guidelines to maintain confidentiality and security of personal data.
• Perform other duties as required, consistent with your role.

Essential Person Specification:

• Two A levels OR vocational qualification at NVQ level 3 or equivalent
• Experience of working in a payroll/HR/Finance environment
• Experience of working to tight, fixed deadlines
• Experience in a high volume transactional environment
  
• Ability to manipulate data sets and analyse the output
• IT literate, expert skills in Excel
• Knowledge of processes, compliance and Pension legislation including Auto Enrolment
• Processing and maintaining company benefit schemes

• Qualification in Payroll administration
• Previous exposure to payroll software implementation/upgrade and/ or to projects
• Experience of working for multiple payroll clients
• Experience of using U4BW (formerly Agresso) software
• Knowledge of full payroll life cycle
• Knowledge of HMRC and UK payroll statutory regulations
• Working knowledge of TPS, LGPS, NHS and NEST pension schemes