Payroll Specialist

Description

DAC Beachcroft is looking to recruit a Payroll Specialist to join our busy HR and Payroll Team in Bristol. You will support the Payroll in Manager in maintaining and administering all key variable Payroll information, ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations, PAYE and statutory regulations. You will be the point of contact for payroll queries, to ensure our colleagues are paid correctly and on time.

• Support the processing of end-to-end UK payroll
• Data maintenance and/or checking of all key variable payroll information in the core HR system iTrent
• Ensure that all payroll process checking and validation procedures are adhered to on a monthly basis
• Continuous review, check and audit of reports and processes in relation to monthly payroll cycle. Including but not limited to month on month analysis, payroll ledger postings, starter / leaver checking, ensuring legislative and award compliance (tax etc.)
• Manage statutory payments
• Manage data feeds from benefits platform Darwin, for starters, leavers and changes
• Input P45s, check tax code changes, check absence adjustments, run PSA reports, process KIT day payments, run NMW checks and import bonus data
• Provide international payroll information when required
• Support the outsourced payroll supplier with year-end tasks where required
• Respond to colleague payroll queries professionally and confidentially
• Deputise for the Payroll Manager when required
• Support work in relation to Payroll and the wider HR team such as roll out of new services, upgrades and implementation of new processes
• Manage confidential information in line with the firm’s data security protocols
• Work closely with the HR Service Desk and HR Systems and Data team to ensure data is accurately maintained, and support on other tasks as requested by the Payroll Manager or Head of HR Operations
• Stay up to date with UK payroll legislation and HMRC updates

Firm wide:

• Understands DAC Beachcroft is an international firm. Works with awareness of this structure to operate as one team/brand.
• Actively operates in the best interests of the firm at all times internally and externally.
• Operates in a regulated environment, effectively managing risk and compliance issues including data security.
• Works in partnership with others to manage and mitigate commercial risk.

• Proven experience in UK payroll processing
• Strong knowledge of HMRC regulations and PAYE legislation
• IT literacy is required, and preferably with an understanding of payroll and benefits systems
• Payroll qualification preferred (e.g. CIPP) but not essential
• Attention to detail and analytical skills, especially numeracy skills
• Excellent written and spoken communication
• Ability to create and update procedures
• An approachable, customer-focused style
• Ability to deliver to tight deadlines

We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.

Note for Recruitment Agencies DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL). Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.

For PSL queries, please contact:  or csg

We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we’re market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five house builders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.

At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.