Payroll & Benefits Specialist

DLA Piper are hiring a Payroll & Benefits Specialist to join our Payroll & Benefits Team in the Sheffield office on a 12 month fixed term contract.

The Payroll & Benefits Specialist will provide accurate, efficient, and timely processing of the group payrolls, whilst supporting the wider Payroll Team and providing cover for the Payroll & Benefits Manager through a period of change whilst the company embeds new systems, processes, and procedures.

This role will provide cover for the Senior Payroll & Benefits advisor in checking employee records, calculation of salaries and applicable deductions, whilst ensuring 100% accuracy in all records.

The Payroll & Benefits Specialist will also be responsible for running UK monthly payroll; dealing with exceptions and completion of statutory reporting for PAYE.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Work with Payroll & Benefits Manager to ensure supervision of day-to-day operation of the payroll team & weekly tasks to include monthly payroll sign off, creation of BACS, RTI & EPS returns
• Provide support to Payroll & Benefits Manager during a period of change for the team
• Deputise for Payroll & Benefits Manager and build relationships with HR Business Partners, HR Benefits team and key internal stakeholders
• Provide support to team in reconciliation of all month end accounts and recharges
• Collaborate with relevant teams for annual salary and bonus review, to include reconciliation of all changes associated with this
• Have working knowledge of calculating manual enhanced Maternity, Parental and Shared Leave
• Support Payroll & Benefits Manager with the roll out of payrolling all benefits and monthly reporting
• Supervision of P11D process each year
• Processing of Year End and filing of statutory returns
• Support Payroll & Benefits Manager and HR Benefits team with all benefit renewals each year and work with both to plan any system configuration in relation to this change
• Ongoing monthly sickness calculations, formatting of working file, double checking interface file, ensuring deductions have been calculated and input correctly. Calculation of sickness deductions, where required and ensuring that all employees are paid within sickness policy. Prepare letters and compilation of sickness summary each month for HR Business Partners
• Provide assistance to set up of monthly benefit windows on our benefit platform (Darwin) including checking of monthly cut off reports
• Checking of all information for Partners to ensure monthly drawings are processed
• Consulting with HR colleagues on system improvements to Success Factors
• Support both the Payroll & Benefits Manager and benefit team with updating of the benefit systems and payroll databases with any relevant changes
• Detecting anomalies and dealing with queries from employees regarding payroll related matters
• Function as a point of contact for any enquiries offering excellence in customer service
• Support the Payroll & Benefits Manager in data retrieval as well as audit support
• Provide support to Payroll & Benefits Manager in UK Payroll Pension re-enrolment and reporting to Pension Regulator
• Support pension reconciliation process; balancing of pension contributions, collation of pension for current month vs previous month, analysis of new hires / leavers
• Work with Payroll & Benefits Manager on system improvements and efficiencies
• Deputise for Payroll & Benefits Manager during periods of leave

About you

• Strong interest in Payroll with a willingness to grow, learn and develop with team
• Experience in Payroll Team management
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to exercise discretion when dealing with confidential matters
• Strong organisational skills and multi-tasking abilities
• Display excellent interpersonal skills and professionalism
• Confident personality who embraces change and always strives to improve
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Proficient user of Microsoft Excel
• Experience of finance accounts reconciliation
• Knowledge of Success Factors, SAP & Resourelink Payroll is desirable
• Experience of Pension Enrolment
• Experience in Maternity, Paternity & Shared Parental Leave calculations

About us

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers and business service professionals located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies.

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-enagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.

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