HR GO plc is a leading staffing group with offices across the UK, Poland and Australia. Established in 1957, HR GO operates across all sectors of the staffing industry to help candidates find work and customers find talent.

At HR GO we know that seeking employment and finding talent are urgent and important challenges to our customers. We know that it's important for customers to have a transparent, responsive, personal, and attentive service from their recruitment partners. We operate to remove the uncertainty and stress from job seeking or talent searching.

We are a private business with a culture of entrepreneurialism and personal service. We invest in cutting edge technology and research and development to build tools and systems that offer a more efficient and transparent service to our customers.

In supporting our payroll department, you will play a key role in the service we provide to our customers. You will collaborate with team members and managers to ensure accurate and timely wages are paid to thousands of candidates each week.

Sometimes things go wrong and when it comes to people's pay, there's nothing as important. This means that sometimes the job can be stressful, with stakeholders wanting to know where their pay is or whether the calculations are correct. You will need to be able to cope when things don't go right, to ensure our candidates receive the wages they are entitled to and learn from the experience to make continuous improvements.

Innovative systems are key to the future success of HR GO. Therefore, you should have an interest in the digital and technological transformation of payroll, as well as a rounded technical understanding of payroll and pensions administration. Our systems are becoming more sophisticated and integrated all the time, and you will play an important role in finding smarter ways of working through technology and better integration, systems, and processes, for the benefit of our customers. Engagement with software engineers and IT teams is an important part of the job and you will need to be able to communicate and work with them to be successful.

Position Summary

Support the drive of data and technology improvements to enhance payroll effectiveness

Lead a team of 3 Payroll Administrators, including delegation of payroll tasks on a weekly basis

Provide technical payroll and pensions guidance to the team and the wider business to ensure a compliant and first-class payroll service is provided

Undertake payroll-related tasks for the weekly-paid temporary employees, including processing of starters, hours, attachment of earnings orders, SSP / SMP payments, and BACS payments

Undertake pensions-related tasks to comply with auto-enrolment obligations, including uploads to pension portals, communications to employees and reconciliations

Comply with data requests from external audits, HMRC and government bodies, employment references, and other third parties

Ensure all direct reports, holidays and sickness forms are completed and submitted

Correcting pay errors on the system and processing off-cycle advances payments

Authoriser for BACS/CHAPS payments

Liaising and working with Payroll Manager to ensure optimum performance

Personal Requirements

Experience in leading a small team in a supervisory capacity

Good IT skills and an aptitude for using the role of technology for continuous improvement

Detailed knowledge of payroll and pensions legislation and compliance

Confidential in all aspects of the role due to the sensitivity of information

Excellent accuracy and attention to detail

Good written and verbal communication skills

Reasonably flexible with working hours to ensure deadlines are met

Hours are 9am - 5.30pm Monday - Friday.