🕒 4 days ago
Administer payroll operations, labor-compliance filings, and related accounting support, ensuring accurate, timely payroll while maintaining records and compliance with payroll and labor regulations.
ADP Payroll Specialist
📅 Aug 3
UK Payroll ProcessingADPPayroll ReconciliationPayroll Input Validation
📜 Description
- Own UK payroll activities and coordinate monthly processing with ADP.
- Prepare and submit payroll inputs for starters, leavers, pay changes, bonuses, commissions, deductions, and corrections.
- Review ADP outputs, calculations, variances, back pay, and reconciliations before approval.
- Maintain payroll calendars, manage recalculations, and resolve errors and warnings.
- Process employee lifecycle changes, including working hours, leave, contracts, and secondments.
- Administer payroll-related benefits and deductions, maintain records, and reconcile deductions to finance postings.
🛠️ Requirements
- Ensure accurate capture of statutory pay (SMP, SPP, SSP) and pension impacts, including manual adjustments where required.
✨ Benefits
- Maintain accurate benefit records and reconcile payroll deductions to finance postings.
Full job description
Mintel is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Payroll Specialist to join our UK Accounts team, replacing an existing role and supporting the accurate and timely delivery of payroll across the UK business. This role works closely with HR, Finance, and our outsourced payroll provider (ADP), ensuring payroll, benefits, and statutory obligations are processed accurately, compliantly, and on time. The role is well suited to someone who enjoys operational ownership, process improvement, and being the day‑to‑day payroll expert within a global organisation.
Key responsibilities
Payroll operations
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Act as the primary internal owner for UK payroll activities, working closely with ADP to ensure accurate and timely monthly payroll processing.
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Prepare, review, and submit payroll input files to ADP, including starters, leavers, salary changes, bonuses, commissions, deductions, and corrections.
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Validate ADP payroll outputs, reviewing calculations, variances, back pay, and reconciliations before final approval.
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Maintain payroll calendars, manage re-calculations, and resolve payroll errors and warnings.
Payroll changes & employee lifecycle
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Manage payroll inputs for:
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New starters and leavers (including P45s and final pay)
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Salary changes, promotions, department and manager changes
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Changes to working hours, temporary contracts, and secondments
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Maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, sick leave, jury service, and KIT days
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Ensure accurate capture of statutory pay (SMP, SPP, SSP) and pension impacts, including manual adjustments where required.
Benefits & deductions
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Administer payroll-related benefits and deductions, working with HR and providers, including:
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P11D payrolled benefits
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Private medical insurance (including leavers and reclaiming employee contributions)
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Dental plans and annual renewals
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Cycle to work, season ticket loans, visa health loans, childcare vouchers
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Holiday purchase and refunds
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Attachments of earnings (AOEs)
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Maintain accurate benefit records and reconcile payroll deductions to finance postings.
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