Senior Payroll Officer

Senior Payroll Officer

Worcester based with a balance of home and office working

£30,273 - £31,867 per year

35 hours per week

We have an opportunity for a Senior Payroll Officer to join our Payroll team, based in Worcester. The main purpose of this role is to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time, managing payroll processes, handling payments and deductions and ensuring compliance with payroll regulations are met.

The role of Senior Payroll Officer will include:

• Ownership of payment runs ensuring accuracy, completeness and adherence to payroll and financial controls in order to ensure regulatory and statutory requirements are met
• Provide support to deliver consistently high quality and timely management information for customers and stakeholders
• Prepare and review Real Time Information (RTI) submissions ensuring HMRC deadlines are met for submissions and payments
• Support the development and maintenance of effective working relationships, ensuring issues and shortfalls are addressed and remedied
• Follow correct processes, governance and compliance to ensure controls are in place
• End to end payroll running
• Gross to Net delivery

Skills and experiences:

• Proven record of delivering end to end payroll and Gross to Net delivery
• Proven experience of Payroll calculations
• Understanding of compliance and payroll regulations
• Proven experience analysing and diagnosing problems and implementing effective solutions
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal and customer care skills
• Proficient user of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel, Outlook and Teams

Why work for us?

We provide homes and care for more than 250,000 people in England and Scotland. Our customers are at the heart of all we do. With around 14,000 colleagues, we foster a diverse and inclusive culture, and nurture and reward talent.

Our Benefits

As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary a great place to work, where your wellbeing is of genuine importance, we have developed an attractive employment package. The package recognises your contribution, supports your physical, mental and financial health and gives you the flexibility to tailor your employee benefits by offering:

• 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
• A pension scheme with matching employer contributions from Sanctuary up to set limits
• Life Assurance
• Employee Volunteering scheme
• Employee Advice Service including counselling
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Voluntary health plans
• Employee discounts
• Wellbeing support and tools
• Employee recognition scheme
• Employee platform to access your reward and wellbeing package online, find exclusive discounts, wellbeing resources and recognition tools
• Employee Networks, with a shared interest in inclusion, and who provide invaluable support to colleagues
• Role salary is £27,521 with an additional policy allowance of £2,752 per annum (rising to £28,970 with an additional policy allowance of £2,897 per annum after 12 months, subject to satisfactory performance)