Payroll & Pensions Administrator

£33000 - £38000

Contract: Full Time

Pay frequency: Annually

Are you looking for a career that makes a real difference? A role with Achieve together might be the perfect opportunity for a long-lasting, rewarding career in the social care sector.

We are looking for team members who are passionate about supporting people, helping our Operations teams deliver excellent care and support, and celebrating achievements.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Payroll & Pensions Administrator to join our community hub team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting the organisation's core operations and ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services.

•  Input of data to the HRIS, ensuring accuracy, compliance and consistency 
• Assist with daily quality checks and cyclical reporting of salary information, interpreting anomalies and liaising with a variety of internal stakeholders to remediate or highlight issues or where action is required
• Manage escalated queries from the payroll team inbox, coaching and mentoring front line staff in resolution. This may involve complex calculations spanning many months 
• Assist with the calculation and recovery of salary overpayments in an empathetic manner 
• Support the Head of Payroll in the finalisation of the monthly pay cycle and processing of third-party deductions and payments
• Maintenance of absence schedules and reporting to ensure accurate record keeping
• Monthly review of pay data, removal of duplicate or erroneous entries and liaising with home managers to resolve queries
• Analysis of complex queries that require manual intervention and/or calculation, escalating to senior colleagues when required 
• Identification of risks and inefficiencies, ensuring these are appropriately recorded and mitigated where possible

• Experience using MHR iTrent is desirable 
• Has worked within a complex pay landscape, with multiple terms and conditions affecting pay, and TUPE situations 
• Intermediate Excel skills (look ups, pivot tables, IF statements) 
• Excellent knowledge of payroll legislation and compliance topics 
• Happy dealing with volume transactions and enquiries 
• DC pension administration experience desired

At Achieve together we offer a range of exciting benefits, such as: 

• Career progression and training opportunities
• Employee discount schemes across a range of retailers and services, 
• Stream- a financial health app that gives you the ability to receive optional pay advances
• Life Assurance 

For all our amazing benefits please visit here: Rewards and Benefits - Achieve together

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Passion for positively shaping lives is just as important to us as your experience.  Building on your existing knowledge we will give you all the training and support that you need. You just need an appetite for learning and a real desire to make a difference to peoples’ lives. So, if you want to start, or continue your career journey in care with us, we want to hear from you!

We regularly review our job adverts to ensure they reflect current hiring needs. In some cases, adverts may close earlier than the stated deadline if we receive sufficient applications or the role is filled. Conversely, some adverts may remain open beyond the original closing date until the position is successfully filled. This approach helps us attract the best talent while maintaining flexibility in our recruitment process.

To ensure fair consideration and timely progression, internal applicants should submit their applications no later than the end of the first week after the role is advertised. Applications received after this point may not be guaranteed review.

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