Payroll Administrator

About the role Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a Payroll Administrator to join our R12 Payroll Team within Employee Services based in Longbenton, Newcastle. Employee Services is the HR and Payroll shared services section of the HR Enabling Function providing critical, continual administrative support to employees throughout their entire life-cycle; from posting job adverts like this one to attract potential candidates through to the day they leave the company and every aspect in between. Employee Services is made up of core administration teams and specialist teams who look after our 16,000 UK based employees across a range of roles in construction, utilities and Rail. What you'll be doing R12 Payroll is one of the core teams who process 3,500 weekly paid employees and 7000 monthly paid employees in a fast paced environment each period. The role will involve: * Full responsibility for the end to end payroll processing including checking and reconciling employee data * Transmitting BACS files and posting payroll costs to the Finance General Ledger. * Managing all queries relating to payroll from employees and the wider business including: payment queries, payroll reporting, taxation and requests for manual calculations * General administrative duties ensuring that all transactional processes are executed accurately and efficiently. Who we're looking for Our successful candidate will have extensive experience in the end-to-end payroll running process and will ideally be proficient in the use of Oracle R12 although not essential, they will also be competent in producing manual calculations having ideally worked with a weekly payroll and have an awareness of Working Rules Agreements. They will also be used to working in a fast paced environment, a good attention to detail is absolutely critical in this role and our successful candidate will take full responsibility for the quality of their own work as well as supporting colleagues in maintaining our high standards. Strong verbal and written communicative skills are hugely valued in Employee Services; our customers are at the centre of everything we do. Why work for us About us We value diversity and celebrate individual differences, believing that our inclusive culture helps the business continue to grow as a strong, dynamic and innovative organisation. Balfour Beatty is a corporate signatory to WISE (Women in Science & Engineering). Our aim is to attract more people from diverse backgrounds to help us build on our inclusive culture. We are a member of the workingmums Top Employers' Charter through which we demonstrate our commitment to enabling parents to progress and enhance their careers whilst managing the challenges of family life. Balfour Beatty is also Gold Award holders in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists