Payroll Specialist

at  LincolnshireCoop

ABOUT YOU

We’re looking for an honest, reliable, and motivated person who has a keen eye for detail and dependable organisational skills. If you have previous experience of understanding Payroll processes and practices – particularly end to end processing, statutory payments, absence, RTI and new colleagues., we’d love to hear from you.

Additionally, we’d love to see:

• Extensive Payroll experience in running payrolls of 500 + employees on multiple applications, with iTrent experience preferred.
• Able to prioritise and manage own workload, working autonomously in a structured environment with a professional and approachable manner.
• Excellent communication skills to be able to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• An organised and methodical approach to your work, able to prioritise and manage a variable workload.
• A naturally organised and diligent manner with the ability to keep calm and remain focused under pressure when working to deadlines.
• An appreciation and respect for GDPR and confidentiality.

Benefits:

In addition to working for a successful co-operative business, we offer our colleagues fantastic benefits, including:

• 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays) (pro-rota).
• Pension scheme offering up to 12% employer contributions.
• Generous colleague discount rates across our family of businesses.
• Annual discretionary colleague bonuses to reward you for your hard work.
• Free tea and coffee provisions for all colleagues during rest breaks at work.

We are an “Investors in People - Platinum” employer, meaning that we have been recognised as one of the country’s top employers, offering progression opportunities to all our colleagues. As your confidence grows, you’ll have the opportunity to build the skills necessary to further progress your career and help to open up future opportunities. Whether you’re thinking of a future with us or looking to develop your skills with a community-focused business, we’ll work together with you to shape your career for the better.

ABOUT US

From a single store in 1861 we have grown to be one of the most successful co-operatives in the UK. We’re proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from across our family of businesses. From Food Stores and Pharmacies to Post Offices and Support Services, we’re a growing society made up of over 220 outlets and nearly 3,000 colleagues.
We’re owned by our members, the people of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and have been for more than 160 years! Communities are at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to deliver more than great customer service. We support them by sharing dividend with our members, investing in new and improved services, raising money for charity through our Community Champion scheme, supporting local schools and so much more!
We work together as a Society and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. If you need any adjustments, would like us to do anything differently during the interview or would like to get in touch with us about anything else, please contact our Recruitment team on (01522) 533316, or alternatively you can email careers@lincolnshire.coop.
We may choose to close our vacancies in the event that we receive a high volume of suitable applications, so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible

Our Support Services are always on hand to offer advice and guidance to colleagues across our business. Our busy and reliable Payroll Team are a key part of this, working together to provide comprehensive payroll service to colleagues across the Society.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Payroll Specialist to join our team on a 6-month fixed term contract, based at our Support Centre in Lincoln. In this role, you will be responsible for the end-to-end payroll process of your teams’ multiple payroll systems.

Some of your duties will involve:

• Supporting senior payroll colleagues with parallel run payroll processing on our legacy (TeamSpirit) and new (iTrent) payroll systems, meeting any end to end payroll deadlines alongside identifying and resolving issues.
• Processing CIS returns alongside verifying sub-contractors and payment reconciliations.
• Reconciling PAYE payments to HMRC via payroll reports and our accounting system, alongside posting payroll entries onto our finance system.
• Reconciling payroll expenditure to our accounting system alongside running payroll reports from our existing payroll system.
• Assisting with the creation of process flow documents with the project team, relating to future payroll business as usual.
• Assisting with the reconciliation and verification of the migration of data from TeamSpirit to iTrent, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Assisting with the implementation of best practices for payroll processing and system usage alongside the Payroll and Pensions Manager, ensuring compliance with Society policies and legal regulations.
• Completing data entry in both Team Spirit and iTrent to ensure both systems are maintained and kept up to date.

For more information about the role, please refer to the job description which is available as a download on this page.