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Payroll Associate (12 mth FTC)

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Payroll at Primark
What’s a career at Primark all about? The positive impact you’re making, the experiences you’re having and the people you’re with. You’re our inspiration. Embrace what sets you apart, own your career and develop in ways you never expected. Leave your mark. And do it your way.

What You’ll Ge t
People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best.

Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.

What You’ll Do as a Payroll Associate
In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of skillsets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• Preparation and checking of high-volume payrolls to help ensure that employees are paid accurately and on time.
• Working flexibly to set deadlines (e.g., weekly, four-weekly).
• Following detailed payroll checking procedures across all areas such as report production, payroll checking and correction, sickness processing, etc.
• Maintaining an allocation of stores by processing information received from People and Culture teams and providing an excellent service to all our customers.
• Learning and applying local country legislation and Primark rules on calculating and entering company & statutory payments.
• Administration of new starters and leavers.
• Dealing with enquiries in a timely, professional, and efficient manner.
• Processing attachment of earnings orders.
• Calculating and administering holiday pay entitlement.
• Administering pension deductions and assisting with pension correspondence and queries.
• Learning to calculate small numbers of manual payments and repayments.
• Administration tasks such as filing and post-sorting.
• Writing and producing reports using reporting system and using MS Excel to carry out some day-to-day requirements.

What You’ll Bring
Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

• Previous experience in a payroll position though full training can be offered to candidates demonstrating a ‘can do’, positive attitude.
• Successful candidates will possess 5 or more GCSEs at grade C or above (or equivalent), be flexible in work approach.
• A competent team player with a positive attitude.
• Organised with excellent attention to detail.
• Effective planning and organisation skills, ability to plan and prioritise work schedule and work within agreed timescales.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Motivated by ensuring high standards of performance and quality of work achieved.

Able to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment whilst maintaining accuracy.

Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.

About Primark
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.

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