Payroll Administrator Job In Glasgow

Payroll Administrator

Role Profile

Reports to:        Payroll Manager

Location:            Glasgow, office based

Salary:                Dependent on experience

Contract:            Full-time

Hours:                42.5 hours per week (8.30am to 5.30pm)

The Company

Jacobs & Turner Limited (trading as Trespass) is one of Scotland’s most successful private companies. Established in Glasgow in 1938, the company has gone on to become one of the most recognisable outdoor clothing brands in Europe with over 1500 employees and over 250 retail stores. In recent years, the company has shown its resilience to the global pandemic and has achieved record results in its latest financial period.

Role Overview

As the Payroll Administrator you will be an integral part of the wages team. This is an exciting opportunity to kick start a career within payroll or to further enhance your existing experience in a successful well-known brand.

You will oversee the processing of monthly payroll for around 300 employees as well as assisting with processing payroll for some of our European subsidiaries.

Furthermore, you will be responsible for all aspects of the payroll including timesheets entry, new starter onboarding and document confirmation.

What does a typical day sound like?

• You will work within a small payroll team who are responsible for a monthly payroll for all Trespass/Nevisport/Warehouse employees.
• You will be responsible for processing starters and leavers.
• You will assist in answering queries from employees, either via telephone or email.
• Calculate and process payments for all statutory payments including SSP, SMP & SPP.
• Process any Direct Earnings Arrestment’s we receive for employees.
• Check and process timesheets.
• Carry out data entry.
• Be responsible for calculating holidays for employees on variable pay.
• Ensure that any changes are updated before processing the payroll and uploading payslips to Sage.
• Publish P45’s and payslips.
• Deal with pension submissions.
• Work closely with the HR team.
• Keep employee records up to date.
• Communicate with other departments where necessary.
• Ensure that you are keeping up to date with relevant legislation.
• Assist other team members, where required.

Role requirements

• Experience of working with Sage 50 (desirable).
• Excellent administration skills.
• Knowledge of end-to-end payroll.
• Previous experience in retail. preferred but not essential.
• Strong organisational skills.
• Knowledge of tax, NI and statutory payments.
• Good communication.
• Ability to work in a team and on your own initiative.

Working for Trespass

• You will receive 30 days holiday (increasing to 32 by 2 years’ service) to ensure you keep a healthy work-life balance and have lots of exciting plans in place to look forward to
• Benefit from our corporate discounts for you, your friends and family, making the most of the great outdoors
• Relaxed dress code
• Free parking as there is nothing worse than parking metres and additional costs, meaning…. buy the coffee!

Are you up for the challenge?

We want like-minded, committed individuals to join us and be part of our continued success so if this sounds like a good fit for you then we welcome you to apply. 

Salary information will be determined by experience and fit and decided at point of offer, however, if you have any questions relating to this, please get in touch.