Payroll Officer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 3 May 2026
LOCATION
Stratford
TYPE
Part-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Finance & Accounting
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Payroll Processing CASCADE Microsoft Excel Attention to Detail Confidentiality Real Time Information (RTI) Auto Enrolment Pensions Statutory Payments (SSP, SMP, SPP)

FULL DESCRIPTION

Payroll Officer

[Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] Ltd are looking for a Payroll Officer to join the finance team, with responsibility for effectively and efficiently processing both the weekly, monthly and Guild payrolls. This is a part time role, 4 days per week, Monday to Thursday.

Duties

  • Responsible for processing the weekly payroll from the wages schedules, ensuring data is correct.
  • Responsible for ensuring payments for Guild Personnel are processed for prompt payment extracting data from the wages schedules.
  • Processing the monthly payroll within agreed deadlines.
  • Processing mileage and expenses claims for salaried staff obtaining authorisation where necessary.
  • Liaison with HR to ensure all personal information is integrated with QUEST payroll for accurate processing.
  • Responsible for resolving discrepancies with the depot administrators/individual employees.
  • Monitoring of clock in and clock out times of office based personnel; identification of lateness and or insufficient hours worked to be reported to line managers.
  • Posting payroll journals for each payment run with primary responsibility for the reconciliation of the payroll control accounts
  • Responsible for ensuring Real Time Information reports are made in accordance with HMRC deadlines.
  • Ensuring the calculations for salary/wage deductions are made accurately and that payments to third parties are made in a timely manner.
  • Responsible for ensuring electronic bank payroll runs are executed in a timely manner.
  • Auto enrolment pension
  • Processing P60’s and P11D’s
  • Liaison with HR to ensure all absence and annual leave data is accurate and integrated for payroll processing
  • Liaison with HR to ensure all payroll changes have been implemented and integrated for payroll processing
  • Calculation of employees’ entitlement to SSP, SMP and SPP.
  • Dealing with routine payroll queries from staff.

Required Skills & Knowledge

  • Extensive payroll knowledge
  • Experience of computerised payroll systems, ideally CASCADE
  • Confident with computerised payroll systems and excel to undertake analysis of data
  • Attention to detail
  • Tenacious in approach and confident to challenge
  • Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
  • Well organised with a flexible and adaptable approach
  • Respectful of the need for complete confidentiality

Contact: [contact hidden]

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