Administrator - Payroll and Benefits
Job Introduction
Payroll & Benefits Administrator
- Lytham St Annes
- Permanent- 30 hours per week, Monday-Friday
- £16,312 - £17,200 per annum + excellent bonus & benefits
- Close date: Monday 8th May
- Initial phone informal chats: 15th May
We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced administrator to join the Beaverbrooks family at our office in Lytham St Annes.
As the Payroll & Benefits Administrator, you will be part of a team that supports our stores & our office departments, with the process for new starters joining the business, as well as dealing with enquiries relating to colleagues pay and our wonderful benefits.
In this varied role, you will be highly organised with excellent communication skills, as well as being an excellent ambassador for Beaverbrooks.
This is a great opportunity to work for an award winning, jewellery retailer recognised as:
- ‘The Happiest Place to Work’, in partnership with Retail Trust, at the Retail Week Awards 2023
- The #6 Best Large Company in the UK and ‘Retail’s Best Company to Work For’ in the prestigious 100 Best Companies to Work For list 2022
- ‘Employer of the Year’ for 2022 at the UK Jewellery Awards
Working at Beaverbrooks also brings with it a whole host of rewards and benefits, some of which are:
- Great office profit share bonus
- Outstanding staff discounts which extend to your family & friends
- Free car parking
- Wellbeing scheme
- Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
- Regular social events - including, but not limited to: pay day drinks, football hospitality events, theatre and theme park trips.
- Free eye test every 2 years
- Flu Vaccinations paid for
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Maternity return to work bonus
- Employee & family support & counselling – Retail Trust
Role Responsibility
- Being the key contact for corporate wear queries – both internally for our people and externally with our suppliers
- Responsible for ensuring holiday entitlement is correct including managing the annual buying and selling of holidays
- Keeping all maternity and paternity records up to date
- Timesheet management including updating information and providing guidance to team members when required
- Support the Payroll & Benefits Manager with the promotion of our wellbeing strategy including intranet content
- Liaise with department/branch managers in relation to wage adjustments
- Create engaging documents to promote benefits such as savings scheme, cycle scheme and medical insurance
- Completion of P11d informing HMRC of team member’s benefit in kind information
- Supporting the Payroll & Benefits team when required with any new initiatives
- Dealing with general benefits queries, over the phone, by email and face to face
The Ideal Candidate
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- Previous experience in an administrative role, ideally from within a payroll team
- A flair for engaging communication
- Computer literate – confident user of word, excel & the internet
- Good numeracy
- Good data entry skills
- Excellent attention to detail & levels for accuracy
- Ability to prioritise
- Ability to work to own initiative
- Experience of working in an environment where there is a degree of flexibility with policy and procedure
DESIRABLE SKILLS
- Previous experience of completing P11d’s
- Working knowledge of HMRC statutory payments such as SMP and SSP
About the Company
We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family.
Established in 1919 we now have 73 stores across the UK and an ecommerce website, which was launched in 2001. We provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood.
Our purpose is to enrich lives, which simply means making a positive difference to the world we live in. We donate 20 per cent of retained profits to charity and since the year 2000, Beaverbrooks has donated £20 million to over 1000 different charities.
We pride ourselves on the work we do for local communities and in support of this we offer charity matching – you raise it, we match it! You can also take 2 paid charity days per year where you can spend time away from the business doing charity work and take time off to give blood.
If you would like to know more about Beaverbrooks, visit https://www.beaverbrooks.co.uk/about-us
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