Payroll & Pensions Administrator

Sewell Wallis is delighted to be working with a well-respected Doncaster based business in their search for a Payroll & Pensions Administrator to join their Finance team on a 6-month fixed-term contract.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced payroll professional to join a growing organisation and play an important role in supporting the delivery of accurate and efficient payroll and pension processes.

Alongside the day-to-day payroll responsibilities, this role will have a particular focus on investigating and resolving historic pension administration issues. You'll be working closely with Finance, HR, operational managers and external pension providers to investigate discrepancies, complete reconciliations, improve data quality and strengthen existing controls.

This is a varied, hands-on opportunity that would suit someone who enjoys getting into the detail, investigating discrepancies and seeing issues through to resolution.

Reporting to the Payroll & Pensions Manager, you'll support the accurate and timely administration of payroll and pensions across the organisation, whilst contributing to ongoing improvements across payroll systems, processes and controls.

What will you be doing?

• Processing starters, leavers, contractual changes and employee amendments, ensuring all information is accurate and processed within deadlines.
• Supporting monthly payroll preparation, validation and reconciliation activities.
• Processing payroll variations, including overtime, enhancements, sickness and statutory payments.
• Acting as a key point of contact for employee and manager payroll queries, investigating discrepancies and resolving issues promptly.
• Administering workplace pension processes, including monthly contribution submissions and auto-enrolment activities.
• Liaising with pension providers to investigate employee queries and contribution discrepancies.
• Reviewing historic payroll and pension records to identify missing, duplicate or incorrect contributions.
• Reconciling payroll information against pension provider records and investigating the root cause of any discrepancies.
• Working with Finance and external providers to resolve historic pension issues and correct records where required.
• Supporting responses to pension provider, auditor and regulatory enquiries.
• Maintaining clear audit trails, evidence and an issues log to ensure remediation actions are tracked through to completion.
• Maintaining accurate information across payroll and workforce systems, including ADP iHCM.
• Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes, controls and data quality.
• Supporting internal and external audits, ensuring compliance with relevant HMRC and pension legislation.

What skills are we looking for?

• Previous experience in a payroll administration role.
• Experience working with payroll systems within a medium or large organisation.
• A good understanding of payroll processes and statutory payments.
• Experience investigating payroll discrepancies and resolving queries.
• Strong Excel skills and confidence working with payroll data.
• Excellent attention to detail and a methodical approach to work.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines.
• Experience handling confidential employee information.

What's on offer?

• 6-month fixed-term contract.
• Hybrid working arrangements.
• Full-time hours 8.30-4.30 Monday - Friday
• Company pension scheme.
• Employee assistance programme.

Apply for this role below, or for more information, contact Jemima.

To apply, please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications, please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry. We offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance, from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. We are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.