Payroller

  • Sector: LMA UK Finance & Accounting
  • Contact: Suzanne Renwick
  • Client: LMA
  • Location: Birmingham
  • Salary: Up to £38000.00 per annum
  • Expiry Date: 19 October 2022
  • Job Ref: BBBH404776_1663769640
  • Contact Email: Suzanne.renwick@lmarecruitment.com

Role: Payroller
Location : Birmingham
Salary: £38K depending on experience
Hours: 9-5pm
Hybrid working ( 2 days per month office based )

Working in a payroll team of 8 the main duties are:

  • End to end processing of 16 payrolls across the UK and Eire
  • Management and distribution of interface error reports and all other audit reports
  • Full reconciliation of the monthly payrolls, preparation of pay release reports and variance commentary for payroll signatories.
  • Management of the payroll bank account, cash book, debtor adjust and faster payments
  • All Costing, Payroll and Finance Reporting
  • Pension Control management and reporting to pension provider including management of refunds
  • Monthly reconciliation of the Full Payment Submission (FPS) and Employment Payment Summary (EPS) provided to HMRC by the outsourced payroll provider
  • Lead contact for all payroll queries from payees, internal clients and HMRC
  • Take a proactive role in the sharing of knowledge throughout the team
  • Commit to own personal development and completion of appropriate learning and development activities to ensure capability and skills are current


Skills/Experience must haves:

  • Experienced at dealing with a high volume of data.
  • Comfortable working in a fast paced environment.
  • Experience of large-scale payrolls across a complex matrix organisation - 5000+ employees.
  • Excel skills must include VLOOK UP and pivot tables.
  • Ability to manage your own workload.


To qualify for the role you must have

  • Hands on experience of delivering an in-house payroll or working for a managed service payroll provider
  • A detailed understanding of PAYE, HMRC regulations including SSP, SMP, NMW, RTI and Tax/NI e.g., Tax code interpretation, gross to net calculation
  • Experience of and delivering via 3rd party providers
  • Good interpersonal and communication skills

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Desired but not essential experience:

  • Knowledge of salary sacrifice, flexible benefits and P11D
  • Experience of Expatriate Payrolls
  • Good interpersonal skills with an ability to develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Knowledge of operational HR systems e.g., SAP Success Factors and the work force administration life cycle