Payroll Administrator

A great opportunity for a Payroll Administrator to join our existing Wates Living Space Payroll team based in Enfield is now available.

Within the group, Wates Living Space is one of the UK’s leading providers of planned and responsive maintenance services in the social housing sector, maintaining over 500,000 homes nationwide every year with a headcount of over 1,400 professionals, which keeps our payroll team busy.

Key Responsibilities

• Set up, populating and regular maintenance of spreadsheets
• Check payroll, gross to net checks
• Payroll reconciliation
• Payroll processes and procedures
• Manual calculations of net pay, grossing up
• Communicate confidently and effectively at all levels in both written and verbal communication

Alongside the day to day activities we are at the beginning a journey to review all of our processes and ways of working so if you are comfortable with a level of ambiguity and manual input we would welcome your support to help us develop and improve our payroll service over the coming months.

To be successful you will be already working in a similar role, or be a fast learner, with confidence in all aspects of administrative tasks.

You will also be a confident communicator, value confidentiality and be able to meet tight deadlines.

Wates Group is one of the largest, and most successful family-owned private construction, development, and property services companies in the UK. We are building a place to work where everyone belongs, by one small act of inclusion at a time. We celebrate difference and welcome diversity.

As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.

The Wates Group are committed to three ambitious environmental targets for 2025: Zero Waste, and Zero Carbon, from our operations and Positive Nature Enhancement. Wates are pushing to take a leading role in reducing our industry’s environmental impact.