Aviva are currently recruiting for a Payroll Advisor to join them in the Human Resources department.

The payroll department is part of the People Function. It is there to ensure that all employees are paid accurately and timely with the correct withholdings and deductions, and to ensure the withholdings and deductions are remitted in a timely manner.

The Payroll Adviser will be a key part of the busy payroll team and reports directly to the Payroll Op’s Lead. Working closing with the team, the Payroll Adviser will work in partnership with the Payroll Specialist to ensure all Payroll queries are processed or responded to in a timely manner with the greatest level of accuracy and efficiency.

Duties & Responsibilities Include

• Liaising with staff and Leaders with delegated authorities to ensure all monthly data is processed

• Upload and reconcile Season Ticket Loan submissions

• Processing Court Orders

• Processing New Starter Declarations & P45’s

• Processing Student Loans, payments to the bank

• Redundancy calculations

• Manually calculating PAYE & NI contributions

• Manually calculate statutory payments (SSP/ SMP/ADP/PPL)

• Manually calculate manual payments

• Administration of P11d data

• Dealing with queries from HMRC, Share Schemes, Pension departments and other departments too

• Ensuring the security of data is paramount and legislatively compliant

• Ensure compliance to statutory and internal audit requirements

• Putting the Customer first

• The delivery of the payroll accurately and on time

Skills & Experience Required

• Previous in-house payroll or bureau experience

• GCSE Maths and English or equivalent

• Willing to work towards payroll qualifications

• Understanding of PAYE, Statutory payments and Auto enrolment legislation

• Excellent communication and customer service skills

• Good IT skills

• Be highly numerate and able to work to a high degree of accuracy

• Excellent attention to detail

• Passionate about getting it right first time

What will you get for this role?

• Salary between £23,000 – £26,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We interview every disabled applicant* that meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us a separate email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll make sure we interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv Johal a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to Guv.Johal@Aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.