Job Information

Cameron James Professional Recruitment are working with a National Construction company who are looking to appoint a HR & Payroll Administrator to run and manage the Company’s various payrolls on a monthly and weekly basis and administrative support functions to the HR Department together with a comprehensive human resources service to managers and staff within the business.

Responsibilities:

• Checking and inputting data for weekly payroll into payroll software from a variety of spreadsheets (timesheets, holiday, sickness)
• Checking and inputting data for monthly salaries and submission to external payroll bureaus
• Ensuring the smooth and efficient administration of all relevant pay data and its input to meet payroll deadlines
• Full reconciliations of each payroll to ensure accuracy prior to BACS processing
• Dealing with all administration tasks related to payroll, ensuring that Company policies are consistently and accurately applied
• Dealing with HMRC and responding to employee payroll enquiries
• Preparing new starter documentation and assisting with new starter inductions
• Assisting with administrative duties associated with the human resources function, ie recruitment, starter and leaver documentation, transfers and amendments, benefits, absence management, annual leave records, training, employee personal records
• Entering and updating HR data into HR software
• Maintaining computerised and paper based filing systems
• Providing data for and preparing management information reports as and when required
• Dealing with employee enquiries
• Scanning/electronic filing of relevant documents
• Assisting with employee relations, services and communications
• Assisting with the development of personnel policies and procedures
• Assistance with the communication of company culture, emphasising continuous improvement and high performance
• Covering, in the event of absence, priority tasks of other members of the HR team
• Carrying out any other ad-hoc duties to support the HR
• Department or as requested by the HR Manager
• Co-operate with the line manager or any other person with specific responsibility for health and safety to enable the Company’s responsibilities under the Health & Safety at Work Act
• Willing to assist other departments and functions when required.
• Attend training as required and develop relevant knowledge and skills
• Undertake other duties of a reasonable nature as may be determined by the Directors from time to time, in consultation with the post holder


Person Specification:

• Proven payroll experience, having been responsible for the completion of payroll processes from start to finish, in a similar size organisation
• Experienced HR administrator
• Good knowledge of current employment legislation
• Good standard of education, literacy and numeracy to A-level or equivalent
• CIPP qualification and/or CIPD qualification is desirable but not essential
• A good command of English both written and spoken
• Excellent IT skills including Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel and Word
• Excellent analytical skills and competence in producing a variety of reports
• Ability to work methodically and accurately
• Excellent organisational skills
• Service orientated
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to assess and respond to enquiries quickly and efficiently by phone and email
• Being proactive and able to manage your own day effectively
• Ability to handle a high volume of work, to tight deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to handle confidential material appropriately
• Tact and diplomacy
• Ability to handle demanding people in challenging situations
• A desire to develop skills and career