Payroll Advisor

About the role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Advisor to join our team in Oldham on a full time, permanent basis. We operate a hybrid working basis which offers the opportunity to work 2 days in the office and 3 days from home.

As Payroll advisor you will assist the Payroll Manager and wider payroll team to ensure the effective, efficient and customer focused management and delivery of accurate payroll, expenses, benefits, and pensions activities across Guinness to agreed service standards and against approved processes.

Success in the role will be measured by your ability to support the team ensure:
• Payroll is processed in a timely and accurate manner for all employees across Guinness.
• Full compliance is achieved with HMRC and statutory reporting and filing requirements.
• Satisfactory outcomes are achieved for internal and external audits.
• The Payroll team is seen as accurate, efficient and helpful and positive feedback is received from managers and employees.

What we’re looking for
You’ll need to be an established payroll professional with relevant qualifications and experience ideally gained in a fast-paced multifaceted environment. You’ll need a keen eye for detail and the desire to continually improve processes.

We’re a customer-focussed organisation so we know that how we do things is just as important as what we do. You’ll need to have great customer service skills and a willingness to go the extra mile to get the job done to provide a first-class payroll service.
Essential Experience:
• Experience of processing payroll and administering pensions and benefits.
• Knowledge of payroll and pension regulations and legislation, including RTI and Auto Enrolment requirements.
• Exceptional customer service skills.
• Good multi-tasking and organisational skills.
• Excellent numeracy skills and attention to detail.
• Good oral and written communications.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Experience of payroll systems.
• Demonstrates the Guinness Behaviours.
Desirable:
• Experience of working on high volume and complex payrolls.
• Experience of working in a shared services centre.
• Experience of working with Oracle payroll.
• Experience of working with The Pensions Trust

Essential Qualification:
CIPP Certificate or specialist payroll qualification

How do I apply?
If you feel you have what we’re looking for then we’d love to hear from you! The first step is hitting the ‘apply’ button and submitting your online application by uploading your CV.

About Us
The Guinness Partnership is one of the leading providers of social housing and care services in England. We build and manage homes and provide housing services to around 140,000 customers nationwide. Of our 65,000 homes, more than 70% are let at a social or affordable rent, while around 10,000 are owned or part-owned by the people who live in them.

Our vision is to deliver great service, provide great homes, to be a great business and to be a great place to work. Because everything we do is about our customers, our communities and our people, any profit we make is re-invested in new and existing homes and improving services.

The Guinness Partnership is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all colleagues, and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships