Purpose of the Role
The Payroll & HR Administrator plays a critical role in ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, maintaining high-quality data integrity, and offering HR support across the organisation. This position requires strong attention to detail, confidentiality, and organisational skills, alongside a solid understanding of payroll processes and HR systems
Key Responsibilities
1. Payroll Administration (Primary Focus)
- Process payroll on a monthly basis, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant legislation and company policies.
- Maintain and update payroll records including starters, leavers, salary changes, and statutory deductions.
- Liaise with external payroll providers as required.
- Respond to payroll-related queries from employees in a timely and professional manner
- Ensure payroll deadlines are strictly adhered to.
- Prepare payroll reports as needed.
- Liasing with Benefit providers including Pension providers
- Multi-site payrolls (apx 250 employees)
2. Training Coordination
- Coordinate and maintain the training schedule
- Maintain accurate training records and ensure compliance
3. HR Data Integrity & Administration
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records within HR and payroll systems
- Perform regular data audits to ensure consistency between HR and payroll systems
- Ensure compliance with GDPR and data protection requirements
- Generate HR reports and metrics to support business decision-making
- Support HR projects and system improvements aimed at enhancing data quality
- Maintaining data accuracy in a Time & Attendance system
4. General HR Support
- Assist with recruitment administration, including onboarding documentation.
- Provide administrative support to the HR team as required.
- Act as a first point of contact for general HR queries, offering timely and accurate information to employees.
- Support employee lifecycle activities, including onboarding and offboarding.
- Process HR administrative tasks including contracts, letters, changes to terms and conditions.
- Support training coordination and record keeping.
- Supporting the HR Manager with ER (employee relations).
- Taking meeting minutes.
Key Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience in UK payroll administration.
- Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation and processes.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Experience with HRIS and payroll systems.
- Strong organisational and time management skills.
- Excellent data management and record-keeping abilities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (especially Excel including formulas, pivot tables, and data analysis).
- Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
- Attention to detail with strong analytical thinking.
- A minimum of GCSE (or equivalent) in English and Maths at Grade C/4 or above.
- Strong communication skills with good grammar and spelling.
Desirable
- Experience coordinating training or learning & development activities.
- Knowledge of HR best practices.
- Experience with data reporting.
- Working towards CIPD qualification: Not essential.
Benefits
- ·Salary £30,000 to £33,000 per annum
- Full-time: 39 hours per week
- Hours: Mon-Thurs 7:30-16:30 and Friday 7:30-12:30
- Reporting to: HR Manager
- Location: 8 Alan Bray Close, Hinckley, Leicestershire, LE10 3BP
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Health benefit programme
- 4% Employer contribution to pension
- Death in service
- Free hot drinks machine
- Free onsite parking
THE ORGANISATION
Sigma Precision Components is a leading manufacturer of precision engineered components for the aerospace sector, manufacturing rigid pipes, ducting, fabrications,
sub-assemblies, sheet-metal details, composite tubes, machined details, specialist fasteners, along with polishing and finishing services. Sigma operates from sites across
the UK and China.
As well as manufacturing airframe, power plant and system components on both traditional materials and composites, Sigma makes the most of its unique structure to offer
customers a range of value-added services including global supply chain management new product introduction and product life-cycle management.
This role is ideal for a proactive professional eager to contribute to efficient payroll and HR operations within a supportive team environment.
Pay: £30,000.00-£33,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
Application question(s):
- How far is your commute to Hinckley?
Experience:
- Payroll: 2 years (required)
- Human resources: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
