Senior Payroll Administrator

This is a great opportunity for an experienced payroll administrator to join our Charity's HR team

Location: Northampton, Northamptonshire

Salary: £28,000 to £30,000, depending on experience

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

A bit about us

St Andrew’s Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.

A bit more about the role

This role forms part of the HR & Payroll Services team, providing transactional advice and support to both Charity employees and managers.  You will assist with the end to end processing of the in-house payroll and act as the first point of contact for all payroll related queries from stakeholders and the escalation point for payroll team.

You will ensure that the appropriate checks and reconciliations take place to support effective payroll controls in line with team performance standards.  You will be expected to build strong relationships with key stakeholders and will have the opportunity to support the Payroll Supervisor in the development of new processes and procedures.

Our patients and your colleagues will expect you to live the St Andrew’s CARE values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence every single day.

A bit more about you

You will have:

• 5 years + Payroll expertise – end-to-end management, submission and reporting
• Knowledge of legal and statutory requirements in relation to pay, benefits and expenses
• Experience of customer services / query management with an understanding of how to resolve queries effectively and the ability to articulate payroll issues to senior colleagues
• Experience of working within a high volume, transactional payroll function, providing a customer centric payroll service
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• A flexible approach and a desire to work as part of a team and support the wider operational environment
• Competent use of relevant systems - ideally SAP and Kronos/Allocate or other T&A system
• Excellent time management skills, ability to work to deadlines and around occasional/seasonal pressure
• Experienced in the effective supervision of less experienced team members

Our rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Life cover; Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.