Payroll and Client Automated Payments Administrator

Posted 11 Days Ago
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Sutherland, Highland, Scotland
Entry level
HR Tech • Payments • Software • Financial Services
The Role
This role involves supporting payroll processing tasks, ensuring accuracy and compliance with established procedures, providing excellent customer service, and identifying process improvements. The candidate will handle data entry, help with compliance maintenance, and assist in audit requirements while managing workloads and prioritizing tasks effectively.
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Management Level

H

EQ is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 5,000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries. EQ’s purpose is to care for every customer and simplify every transaction, delivered with less of an impact on the environment.

EQ’s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base.

Role Summary

This is an exciting and challenging position for a detailed oriented administrator to either create a career in pension’s payroll processing or continue their existing career within this field with the market leader. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a clear focus on accuracy, ability to follow procedure and a good understanding of advanced excel activities such as: macros and formulae.

Please note that this role will require enhanced referencing (Met Police CTC Clearance, Armed Forces, BPSS and MyCSP, SC) and this process can take up to 6 months. Any individual who has been abroad for 3 month or longer in the past 5 years will unfortunately not pass this security and therefore we cannot accept applications on this basis.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

  • Provide an excellent service to customers as per agreed SLAs and KPIs
  • Knowledge of payroll desirable but not essential
  • Ability to work across multiple systems
  • Reconciliation of payments and other outputs
  • Possess a process driven mindset, updating processes, checklists and other documentation where necessary and adhering to the annual audit updates on the same
  • Ability to identify potential problems and risks associated with bulk transactions, reports and systems
  • Assisting with the compliance and maintenance of ISO standard by adhering to the Quality Management System
  • Ability to identify and implement process improvements within the immediate area or work responsibility in order to improve workflows and customer service
  • Carry out project work and ad-hoc activities as determined by line management
  • General housekeeping duties, for example filing emails, keeping shared folders tidy

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience skills and behaviours:

  • Knowledge or previous experience of a payroll or financial Services environment desirable but not essential
  • Knowledge of UK RTI Tax reporting is desirable but not essential together with knowledge of Irish and IOM Tax reporting.
  • Thorough and meticulous with extreme attention to detail
  • Self-disciplined to follow documented instructions
  • Advanced and accurate data entry skills
  • Experience using Microsoft Office packages
  • Ability to identify and escalate issues
  • Excellent communication skills responding to queries from both internal and external stakeholders
  • Good interpersonal skills within a team
  • Highly organised and self-motivated with regards to managing your own workload, with the ability to prioritise and hit extremely tight deadlines
  • Be aware of team workloads and readily available to assist colleagues

What We Offer

  • Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%
  • All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.
  • Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.
  • Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.
  • Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.
  • Time Off – Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.
  • Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff 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.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff 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.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.

Top Skills

Excel
The Company
Birmingham
4,092 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Our people and platforms engage customers with investments, connect businesses with markets, and enable organisations to grow.

Our vision is to be a leading global share registrar and transfer agent, offering complementary services in pensions and remediation, to help our customers succeed.

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