Payroll Officer
About the job
We are looking for an experienced Payroll Officer to ensure validity and accuracy of all payroll calculations and to handle and monitor all matters relating to payroll throughout the hotel in a timely manner. The senior finance team will outline key tasks with the Payroll Officer taking day-to-day ownership of the payroll tasks.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Ensure that gross payroll costs have been calculated to accurately represent each employee's authorised salaries/wages
- Ensure that all payments/deductions are properly authorised and accurately calculated and processed
- Liaise with all departments to ensure that rotas are correctly completed and submitted to payroll on a weekly basis
- Monitor actual and contracted hours
- Investigate and resolve queries raised by managers and employees
- Ensure that all queries are dealt with in a timely and appropriate manner, and that employees are advised of timescales if further investigation is required
- Manage the processing and administration of monthly payroll by the payroll bureau
- Liaise with Human Resources regarding staff appointments, terminations, remuneration, conditions of service, and other relevant matters
- Check and calculate manual payments, advances and other ad hoc payments
- Calculate and process pension contributions for multiple schemes, including pension payments to providers
- Ensure that all statutory reporting is completed within the legislated deadlines, including monthly RTI submissions, year-end statutory returns such as P11D, PSA and Form 42
- Prepare service charge reconciliation
- Prepare month-end journals
- Analyse and reconcile payroll related balance sheet and income statement accounts
- Ensure that payroll related documents and correspondence are filed in a timely and organised manner
Experience required
- Previous experience in a similar role
- Previous high volume hotel experience is preferable
- Advanced knowledge of Sun and Vision
- Advanced experience in Fourth Hospitality
- Proven experience using Opera
- Sound decision making.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- A positive attitude and excellent communication skills
In addition to competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits that include and not limited to: -
- Meals on duty
- Season ticket loan
- Employee/Friends & Family rates
- Pension
- Discounted Gym membership
sbe is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants and incumbents are selected, placed, trained, compensated and promoted without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital, or disability or other classifications protected by applicable law. In addition, sbe provides a reasonable accommodation for applicants/incumbents with disabilities. Please advise Human Resources if you require a reasonable accommodation.
- Market related
- Department: Human Resources Administration Finance & Accounting
About you
- Language required: English.
The company
With a design reminiscent of a 1920s transatlantic cruise liner, award-winning food and drink outlets and an electric energy, Sea Containers London is the remarkable Southbank hotel. It’s a destination where glamour meets brutalism – and it's your London anchor on the River Thames.