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Payroll Data Analyst
Posted 1 day ago by 1749878900
£35,000 Per year
Undetermined
Hybrid
Cheltenham
Summary: The Payroll Data Analyst role at a growing company in Cheltenham involves managing and reconciling payroll operations, ensuring accuracy and compliance throughout the payroll process. The position requires collaboration with finance and payroll services to resolve variances and support various payroll-related tasks. The analyst will also contribute to administrative development and reporting within the organization. This role is suited for individuals with extensive payroll experience and strong analytical skills, particularly in Excel.
Key Responsibilities:
- Reconcile Oracle to payroll providers, ensuring databases are synchronized.
- Administer monthly submissions of people changes to payroll and meet payroll deadlines.
- Liaise with finance and payroll managed service to resolve payroll variances efficiently.
- Support Payroll Manager with thorough payroll checks each month for accuracy.
- Ensure data cleanliness for correct processing of RTI, Tax, Student Loans, and other payroll-related tasks.
- Support reconciliation of annual tasks such as salary reviews and bonuses.
- Run monthly compliance checks and make necessary changes.
- Complete the ONS report monthly.
- Assist with pension scheme administration as required.
- Participate in future people projects and ad-hoc reporting as needed.
- Undertake other administrative duties and identify problem areas with viable solutions.
Key Skills:
- 3+ years of payroll experience from start to finish.
- Proficient in Excel, including Pivots, lookups, and formulas.
- Experience with Oracle is beneficial but not essential.
- Ability to quickly learn new systems.
Salary (Rate): £40,000 yearly
City: Cheltenham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: HR
Your new company
Hays has the privilege of working with an ever-growing company based in Cheltenham who are looking to add to their team with a Payroll Data Analyst.
Your new role
The Payroll Data Analyst – Payroll & Reward is responsible for reconciling and supporting the monthly payroll operation, ensuring that each stage of the payroll process is robust, actively promoting a culture of best practice and consistency in all analytical areas.
Tasks/Duties
- Payroll
- Reconciliation of Oracle to the payroll providers, ensuring that databases are in sync at all times.
- Supporting administering monthly submission of people changes to payroll, and ensuring payroll deadlines are met.
- Liaising with the finance team and our payroll managed service to ensure payroll variances are resolved efficiently and accurately. Keep clear records of any over-payments or re-run payslips for tax and pension corrections. Escalate any issues to the Payroll Manager.
- Support the Payroll Manager with thorough payroll checks each month, to ensure that all payslips are accurate and that all changes have been actioned correctly.
- Working closely with our payroll managed service to ensure the data is clean to support correct processing of RTI, Tax, Student Loans, National Insurance, P11D, P45’s, P60’s, SSP, and Maternities, providing any information they need to complete this.
- Support the reconciliation of annual tasks such as loading changes for salary reviews, minimum wage uplifts, and bonuses when required.
- Running monthly compliance checks and making required changes.
- Completing the ONS report on a monthly basis.
- Pension:
- Support the Payroll Manager with Pension scheme administration was required.
- Reporting & Administrative Development:
- Be involved with future people's projects as appropriate, by sharing ideas through managing implementation, e.g. People System, Onboarding processes, Absence Management system, colleague surveys.
- Ad-hoc reporting is required across the business.
- Undertake other ad-hoc administration duties as required by the team, identifying problem areas and offering viable solutions.
What you'll need to succeed
- 3 plus years within Payroll doing it from start to finish
- Great system use, especially Excel - Pivots, lookups and formulas are needed for this role. Excel knowledge is a must.
- Use of Oracle would also be beneficial but not essential, but quick use of systems and the ability to pick them up would be advantageous.
What you'll get in return
Flexible working options available.
Hybrid working options - 2 days in office, 3 days at home
Flexi working hours
28-day holidays
What you need to do now
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