Payroll Administrator

  • PAYROLL ELITE
  • Basingstoke, Hampshire
  • Jan 15, 2026
Full time Accounting

Job Description

Working as part of a team of 3 administrators paying over 4400 weekly paid employees in over 30 branches. The team is supported and managed by the Payroll Supervisor who reports into the Payroll Manager.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

    • Support sites with data input and check output for approximately 1500 employees in a set group of branches.
    • Support the set-up of new starters, input by the sites ensuring the correct documentation is received to comply with Company policies and Home Office legislation.
    • Assist sites to adjust hours and input them where necessary.
    • Check that statutory payments are recorded and are calculating correctly eg, SSP. SMP, SSP SHPP etc
    • Changing tax codes, and bank details
    • Generating and emailing P45 s for those employees who have been made a leaver in the current weeks payrolls.
    • Ensuring all employee specific paperwork is added to the employees record via document storage on ResourceLink
    • Answering correspondence on a weekly basis.
    • Dealing with the external agencies i.e. Tax Office, DSS, Contributions Agency, Banks.
    • Dealing with internal customers i.e. Employees, Branch Administrators, General Managers etc.

CURRENT SYSTEMS: ResourceLink (Zellis), Includes HR, Payroll, MyView (Self Service) and Time and Attendance

APPLICANT.

Personal Qualities: Easy going, hard-working, good sense of humour, willing to learn, flexible in approach to work, used to working to strict deadlines, good timekeeper, conscientious and loyal.

Qualifications: Must be numerate and ideally have equivalent of 2 GCSE or O levels , preferably in Mathematics and English.

Training: Must have previous payroll experience, having calculated wages/salaries manually and using a computerised payroll system.

Specific Experience: A good knowledge of PAYE, NI, SMP, SSP Redundancy, Court Orders, and Student Loans.

PC Experience: Microsoft: Excel, Word and Outlook - email.

JOB OFFER/ AMENITIES.

Job Offer: Hours per week 37.5. (Monday Friday). Salary TBA. 29 days holiday (includes bank holidays) No Home working. All hours worked in the office.

Amenities:

  • The job is based in the modern air-conditioned Head Office, based in Basingstoke.
  • Hours of work are set to maximize the most time on the busiest days but are subject to change.
  • 8am 5pm Monday, Tuesday & Thursday
  • 8am 1:30pm Wednesday
  • 8am 2pm Friday