To manage Comic Relief’s relationship with our Outsourced Payroll Provider and Pension Provider, building effective working relationships. The Payroll Officer will lead and manage the monthly coordination of preparing payroll inputs and checking payroll outputs; ensuring that all employee benefits and payments are accurately calculated and recorded in the payroll.

The Payroll Officer will also support Comic Relief’s Financial Accountant in carrying out monthly reconciliations of Payroll Balance Sheet accounts.

Key responsibilities:

Payroll Processing

• Build an effective working relationship with Comic Relief’s Outsourced Payroll Provider and Pension Provider, being the first point of contact for all queries and ensuring services are provided in line with agreed SLAs.

• Collation and submission of monthly payroll data to the Payroll Provider in a timely manner, ensuring completeness of the data provided.

• Complete checks on all outputs from outsourced Payroll provider, ensuring completeness and accuracy of reports.

• Ensure payroll is checked and approved in line with Comic Relief’s process for control and approval, within monthly payroll deadlines.

• Ensure all events and related transactions are effectively and efficiently initiated and recorded, including childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme and maternity pay.

• Work with HR Business Partners to answer employee queries on pay

• Liaise with line managers to ensure all payroll information is captured in monthly payroll submissions, including FTC ending dates and changes to employee terms and conditions.

• Carry out the monthly pension upload to Comic Relief’s Pension Provider ensuring appropriate sign off is completed within monthly deadlines.

Payroll Reconciliations and Audit

• Carry out monthly payroll balance sheet reconciliations investigating any variances and adjusting future payroll when needed.

• Partner with Finance Business Partners to check headcount, budget and resource alignment.

• Be first point of contact for internal and external audit queries relating to Payroll.

Person specification

Essential criteria

• Proven experience in a payroll environment

• Good working knowledge of payroll legislation

• High degree of accuracy and numeracy with the ability to spot errors

  Trustworthy & respectful of confidentiality

• Good time management – to prioritise work and meet monthly payroll deadlines

• IT literacy – to be able to create and edit documents and spreadsheets, use e-mail and outlook calendar effectively

Desirable criteria

• The ability to perform manual payroll calculations including PAYE and National Insurance

• Experience of reconciling payroll accounts

Inclusivity at Comic Relief

We recognise diversity and inclusion are a source of strength in achieving our mission. We therefore welcome everyone, trusting what makes us different brings creativity, styles and experiences to help us collectively do our best work. That’s regardless of your gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, and cultural identity. We especially welcome those from under-represented groups in modern grant-making and fundraising. We are on a journey, but if you join our team you will be part of a community that is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where we want you to:

• Be valued for being yourself

• Do your best work, and be supported to break down barriers so you can succeed

• Be heard, respected, and treated as an equal, whatever your level, experience or background

• Be part of a team that is committed to making this happen – with our colleagues, partners, and contributors.

Comic Relief is committed to preventing and protecting all people from harm in their interactions with us. We expect all those that act in our name to uphold our approach to doing no harm.