Job Description:

Job information Junior Payroll Administrator from the Company UNW LLP, this latest Junior Payroll Administrator job vacancy is located in the city Newcastle upon Tyne NE located in the country United Kingdom . This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate GCSE . Job Vacancies in this Education field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Responsibility:

The role at a glance

Due to recent growth, our payroll team are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Payroll Advisor to work from our city centre office. The successful applicant will preferably be proficient with Star payroll, or other payroll software packages. They will be proactive, highly numerate and have a high degree of attention to detail.

As an integral part of the payroll service team, they will work with the Payroll Assistant Managers to ensure all payroll tasks are completed to a high standard and meet the needs of clients.

What makes UNW a great place to work?

When we ask our team members what makes UNW a great place to work, time and time again they say it's the people that they work with.

Supportive, friendly, progressive, flexible, inclusive, welcoming, approachable, ambitious, caring and fun are just some of the words they use to describe UNW's culture.

And it's that unique culture, built on hard work and a commitment to providing the very best service to our clients that sets us apart from others and attracts some of the brightest and most experienced talent to UNW.

Based in the very heart of Newcastle city centre, we are committed to creating a thriving environment in which everyone feels valued and proud of their work. No gimmicks, just strong support and genuine opportunities to develop.

What you'll be doing

• Process end-to-end weekly and monthly payrolls for organisations of varying sizes and complexities
• Set up pension schemes with various pension providers, providing calculations and distributing of necessary data
• Work with clients to understand their needs and build excellent professional relationships
• Reconciliations/manual calculations and client queries

Who are we looking for?

Job specific:

• Experience of working in payroll, ideally within a payroll bureau
• Highly numerate with excellent attention to detail is essential
• Ability to work independently on various payrolls, ideally with experience of end-to-end payroll processing experience

Technical

• Knowledge of Star payroll software would be preferred
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (particularly Excel (import/ export) and Outlook)
• Ability to transfer data from a payroll system to Microsoft Excel and or other payroll systems
• Good knowledge of Bacs payment process

Personal

• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work well in a team
• A willingness to provide the best service possible to clients with a flexible approach to tasks required to allow you to support the wider payroll team
• Have an organised, thorough, and diligent approach to work, with the ability to prioritise and manage deadlines effectively
• Act in a trustworthy capacity at all times and demonstrate superb integrity
• Due to the nature of work in a professional services firm and in particular the need to meet client deadlines, flexibility and strong time management skills are essential

Benefits

· Contributory pension scheme (provided by Standard Life) with matched employer contributions of 5% employee and 5% employer

· Company sick pay for up to 3 months at above statutory rate for days of sickness absence *

· Life assurance (from day 1) at three times annual salary

· Enhanced maternity pay *

· Enhanced paternity pay

· Private medical care available (employee pays premiums) at a discounted rate through group membership of Vitality health care

· Investors in People, gold level accreditation

· 31 days holidays (inclusive of Bank Holidays and Christmas shutdown)

· Increased holiday based on length of service (up to 5 extra days)

· The ability to purchase additional holidays every year (in April)

· Annual payment of professional subscription

· Discounted shopping - full access to a discounted shopping app offering discounts at hundreds of retailers (shops, restaurants and holiday companies) online and in store

· A confidential Employee Assistance Programme helpline available 24/7, including free face to face and online therapy - Spectrum Life

· Wellbeing platform with health and wellbeing podcasts, recipes and fitness programs

· Cycle to work scheme available

· Interest free season ticket loans

· Free eye tests and a contribution towards glasses, free flu vouchers

· Recruitment referral scheme - when you introduce us to someone who we recruit

· Paid volunteering days for all employees

· Free tea, coffee and soft drinks

· TFI lunches every month

· Fruits available all year round

· Charity matched funding donations for employees taking part in charitable events

· Sports and social club who arrange free events - pizza nights, quiz evenings etc

· Employee-led wellbeing committee

· Fully expensed Christmas meal, firmwide day out and a Summer party

*Enhanced maternity and sick pay benefits are not payable from day 1 of employment

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Additional pay:

• Performance bonus

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme
• Referral programme
• Sick pay

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Keywords : Newcastle upon Tyne jobs
Closed Date : 2025-12-12