Payroll and Pensions Administrator

Job description

Job responsibilities

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the pension contributions, auto enrolment, payments, and reconciliations for all employee pensions across the group
• Coordinating third party payments (attachment of earnings, health insurance etc), and related payments and reconciliations for these items for all payrolls across the group.
• Take responsibility for ensuring that payments of PAYE / NI are made in a timely manner and reporting to HMRC is up to date and correct at any given time. Reconciliation of balances to financial accounting system, Sage X3.
• Data management – cleansing of payroll data in relation to third party payments to ensure up to date records are accurate
• Ensuring payroll legislation is adhered to.
• Assisting with the preparation of P11ds and calculation of employee benefits in relation to tax impact, potentially moving to Payrolling benefits in future years.
• Assisting with pension queries and issues, comments and complaints in line with policy and process.
• Demonstrating confidentiality and discretion at all times. 
• Ensure GDPR compliant at all times.
• Supporting the payroll team with other tasks as required

What experience you'll have:

• Experience in processing employee pensions and reconciliations
• Experience of payroll in a group environment with multiple payrolls and pension providers
• Experience of Sage payroll or Advanced (Open People) systems desirable

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications:

• Positive enthusiastic approach with a can-do attitude
• Ability to work well in deadline driven environment
• Able to work autonomously and flexibly
• Good organisation skills
• Good Excel and all-round IT skills
• High level of accuracy and excellent attention to detail.

We also want to ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable facilities to participate in job applications or interviews to perform essential job functions. To support this, we are a Disability Confident committed employer.

What to look forward to:

• 25 days plus bank holidays
• Birthday off
• Join the Active Learning Hub and benefit from a wide range of e learning and face to face training and development opportunities
• Active Reward App giving discounts and savings on your weekly shop
• Free 24 hour confidential Employee Assistance Programme Helpline &  App to support with legal, health, wellbeing, relationship and consumer advice
• A Nest Personal Pension account
• Access to join a Medicash Health Plan for you and your family to save money on everyday health essentials – like going to the dentist or opticians
• We recognise outstanding Active Behaviours via the Active Awards programme
• Enhanced Sick & Maternity Pay benefits
• Refer a Friend Scheme and earn yourself up to £1000 by recommending someone you know
• ……and, of course, the support and guidance of our qualified clinical and business leadership teams so that you can really develop your career with Active Care Group

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in processing employee pensions and reconciliations
• Experience of payroll in a group environment with multiple payrolls and pension providers

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Active Care Group

Address

Sevenoaks - Support Office

Sevenoaks

Kent

TN13 1YL

Employer's website

https://activecaregroup.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)