Senior Payroll Administrator

Location: dmg::media – Leicester
Position: permanent 

Package Description

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution. 
• Life cover under the Pension Plan 4x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

Job Introduction

To provide efficient and effective payroll administration support covering the payroll and benefit processes in dmg media, within the payroll team. The Senior Payroll Administrator will be expected to ensure the accurate processing of wages, salaries, and other forms of compensation across their allocated payroll site along with checking other payrolls, ensuring that queries are answered on a timely basis and deadlines are met.

What are we looking for?

A senior payroll administrator with a resilient, positive, and methodical mindset. You will be used to working in a busy payroll function where priorities can change to adapt to business needs. Attention to detail and producing accurate quality work is essential along with excellent communication and teamwork skills.

 What will you be doing?

• Ensuring all amendments are processed via Workday or posted directly to the payroll system (iTrent) prior to the payroll deadline.
• Inform relevant stakeholders of any known missing data and ensure that this data is complete on Workday and received in iTrent prior to the payroll deadline.
• Review the errors, exceptions and elements reports and reconcile to final payroll.
• Update the system for all leave types ensuring pay is accurately calculated.
• Ensure pension deductions are processed accurately and in line with Auto-enrolment and Pensions Salary Sacrifice/Exchange procedures.
• Ensure all documentation for new starters and leavers is entered onto the payroll system.
• Distribution of P45’s, statement of earnings and other documentation as required.
• Assist with the BACS report, payroll summaries, final analysis and reconciliations.
• Ensure that the payroll information is ready to be transmitted to the BACS system before the relevant pay date and the funds transferred to employees` bank accounts by pay date or previous Friday if pay date is a weekend or bank holiday.
• Responding promptly to general queries from the Payroll Admin inbox.
• Assist the finance team with payroll reconciliation.
• Assist in the preparation and issuing of P60’s to employees and provide details to the Inland Revenue by the required deadline.
• Assist other members of the team when necessary, including the weekly payroll, internal and external audits.
• Undertaking any other payroll duties as/when required by the business.
• Ensure compliance with regulations regarding payroll.
• Maintain and update employee payroll records, ensuring accuracy of information.
• Generate and analyse payroll reports to support financial and management reporting.
• Collaborate with HR and other departments to provide excellent customer service.

General expectations:

• Display and encourage a proactive, problem solving and can-do attitude both with internal and external customers.
• Ensure a consistent quality of payroll services to customers adhering to high internal standards, highlighting any recurring issues.
• Keep up to date with relevant Payroll legislation.
• To participate in any internal/external training courses as required.
• Keep up to date with new technology and system developments.

Essential:

• An understanding of UK payroll practices/procedures, including all legislative requirements.
• Ability to perform payroll calculations, including family leaves & tax calculations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly motivated and able to work alone or as part of a team.
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage tasks accurately to meet demanding deadlines.
• A proactive approach to identifying problems and formulating solutions.
• Ability to understand systems and apply relevant knowledge.
• An enthusiastic and flexible approach.
• Ability to work with accuracy and good attention to detail.
• Ability to keep calm and stay focussed under pressure.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office, and proficient user of Excel.

Desirable:

• Knowledge and experience of using of iTrent and Workday.
• Experience of working in HR shared services.
• Experience of working on multiple payrolls.

About dmg::media

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.*

Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, Metro.co.uk, i and inews.co.uk reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*

Globally, dmg media’s brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.**

Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content.

In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers. 

*PAMCo H2 2023 **GA 2023 September

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.