Payroll Analyst

Alexander Daniels is currently recruiting for a interim Payroll Analyst to join a leading business based in Coventry on a 3 – 4 months contract. Reporting directly into the Payroll Supervisor, you’ll play a vital role in processing time sheets and maintaining accurate payroll data and records.

Your duties include:

• Responsible for processing, reviewing and balancing weekly, lunar and monthly payrolls.
• Maintaining accurate employee records.
• Producing and validating reports.
• Resolving pay-related queries, correcting any errors, and working with internal stakeholders to accurately complete payroll requests.
• Producing and reconciling payroll journals to ensure correct information is reported back to senior leadership.
• Processing court orders and statutory payments via the payroll system and produce payment requests.
• Reconciling values to specific payrolls to ensure balance sheet is accurate.
• Downloading reports from HMRC and reconciling to PAYE control accounts.
• Other ad-hoc duties.

Essential requirements:

The ideal candidate will have an in-depth understanding of UK payroll legislation and statutory requirements, including PAYE and HMRC rules. They will have strong analytical skills, will be experienced in producing reports and importing data and have great interpersonal skills as they will be liaising with staff on a regular basis.