Payroll Associate

Role: Payroll Associate

Reports to: Team Lead

Location: Reading Town Centre

Come and join our large, friendly team that produces UK and Ireland Payrolls for Primark

What the successful candidate will be doing:

• Preparation and checking of high volume payrolls to help ensure that employees are paid accurately and on time.
• Working flexibly to set deadlines.
• Following detailed payroll checking procedures across all areas such as report production, payroll checking and correction, sickness processing, etc.
• Maintaining an allocation of stores by processing information received from People and Culture teams and providing an excellent service to all our customers.
• Learning and applying HMRC/Revenue legislation and Primark rules on calculating and entering company & statutory payments.
• Administration of new starters and leavers including processing starter declarations.
• Dealing with correspondence enquiries in a timely and efficient manner from stores, HMRC/Revenue and other third parties.
• Processing attachment of earnings orders.
• Calculating and administering holiday pay entitlement.
• Administering pension deductions and assisting with pension correspondence and queries.
• Learning to calculate small numbers of manual payments and repayments.
• Administration tasks such as filing and post-sorting.
• Writing and producing reports using a reporting system and using MS Excel to carry out some day to day duties.
• Learning new tasks associated with payroll processing and systems with a view to role development.
• In due course taking on additional responsibility for other tasks performed by the team (for example, international payroll support).

What Primark is looking for in a candidate:

• Previous experience in a payroll position though full training can be offered to candidates demonstrating a ‘can do’, positive attitude.
• Successful candidates will possess 5 or more GCSEs at grade C or above (or equivalent), be accurate and flexible and be comfortable working in a busy environment.

The ideal individual will be:

• A competent team player with a positive attitude.
• Organised with good attention to detail.
• Motivated by ensuring high standards of performance and quality of work achieved.
• Able to work in a fast paced environment whilst maintaining accuracy.

This is a unique opportunity to work for a dynamic, fast growing company that invests in

people development and to work on a team with a focus on teamwork and excellence