Payroll Associate

Payroll Associate Belfast, Northern Ireland

EY
Full Time Belfast, Northern Ireland 26442 - 31821 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

The Opportunity:
We are currently looking for Payroll Associates to join UK Payroll Operate in Belfast. This is an excellent opportunity to join our fast-growing payroll team within EY. Reporting to the Payroll Manager, the successful candidate will be part of a team with responsibility for the successful delivery of payroll services for new and existing clients. You will need to ensure all payrolls are executed to a high standard, manage stakeholders, report on internal EY metrics and build positive relationships across the firm. As part of this role, you will also need to prioritise your time and workload to ensure payrolls are delivered on time.


Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Processing the payroll data each pay period accurately and to an agreed payroll schedule
  • Setting up new joiners on the payroll software
  • Terminating employee on the payroll software
  • Importing pay data into the payroll software
  • Manual calculation of pro-rated salary for joiners/leavers per payrun
  • Manual retrospective calculations
  • Processing statutory payments
  • Setting up new pay components within the payroll software and ensuring the correct legislative processes are followed
  • Manual gross to net and net to gross calculations on payslips each payrun
  • Set up and administration of pensions information
  • Calculating PAYE, NI and Apprenticeship levy amounts payable
  • Completing payroll reports and send to clients, ie General Ledger
  • Sending of regulatory compliance, FPS, EPS, Auto enrolment and Apprenticeship Levy
  • Creating BACS files for payment of employees; and where necessary set up calendar invites per annum
  • Issuing online Payslips, P60s and P45s to employees.
  • Keeping up to date payroll schedules/calendars
  • Keeping up to date client service definitions
  • Preparing reports and monitoring on EY key performance metrics
  • Maintaining a good working relationship with clients and other EY employees/teams
  • Review of Billing Reconciliation Template with hires, leavers, number of employees and any additional agreed fees
  • Review of prepared bills in mercury
  • Checking previous bills have been paid and are up to date
  • Sending Billing to clients each month
  • Participation in ISAE certification process
  • Participation and understanding of payroll system updates and testing process.
  • Escalation of payroll issues to Sr. Associates and Payroll Leadership as required.


The Ideal Candidate

  • End to end payroll knowledge
  • High IT skills including experience of working with Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
  • High attention to detail, accuracy and checking own work
  • Being able to manage own workload and planning around annual leave to ensure all work is covered in their absence.
  • Having experience in working towards deadlines and multi-tasking
  • A Team player with excellent communication skills but also able to work on their own initiative
  • Knowledge of SharePoint


Preferred Attributes & Qualifications

  • 2 to 3 years end to end payroll processing experience, good knowledge and understanding of payroll compliance and best practice.
  • Experience with IRIS Payroll Software
  • CIPP or other payroll Qualification
  • Ability to handle increasingly high volume of work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment in a calm manner
  • Good workload management skills and an ability to work to deadlines
  • High understanding of payroll compliance including AE, RTI, Apprenticeship Levy, Employment Allowance
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills
  • Understanding of financial service regulatory processes such as know your client and anti-money laundering.
  • Critical thinking – ability to work under own initiative to solve problems either by research or by sign posting how problem can be solved
  • Flexibility – to meet demands of position (i.e. quick turnarounds)

Payroll Associate
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