Payroll Assistant - Sport Travel

Destination Sport 

Payroll Assistant  

This is a hybrid role based in our Manchester office, so you must live within a commutable distance. 

Welcome to Destination Sport Group where we set the global standard in sports travel, offering a uniquely holistic approach to partnerships not seen before. Our unique global sports travel business offers our partners the very best in everything they need in order to succeed. We are proud to have 7 market leading sports travel companies in our group, helping millions of customers to enjoy sport. https://destinationsport.com/

We now have an exciting opportunity for a detail orientated Payroll Assistant to join our team. Working alongside our Payroll Manager this role will take on a variety of payroll tasks and duties, primarily focusing on our UK payroll. Destination Sport s a growing company with employees in a number of countries so there are lots of opportunities for growth and progression in this exciting new role.

This is a varied & hands on role, as our new Payroll Assistant you will:

• Work alongside our Payroll Manager to run the Destination Sport Payroll in the UK for our 400 employees

• Ensure all payroll changes are uploaded including overtime, bonus payments etc

• Manage starters, leavers and employee changes e.g. salary updates, changes in tax codes, etc

• Manage the pension process ensuring all new starters are enrolled

• Assist with end of year tasks – Issuing P60’s and P11D

• Be familiar with HMRC EPS & FPS

• Ensure compliance on all statutory requirements for payroll, pensions, and Healthcare schemes

• Manage the Payroll inbox ensuring queries and emails are responded to, to agreed timelines

• Process expenses, by managing and maintaining the concur expense system

• Provide admin support collating and circulating the monthly headcount reports

• Become fully competent on our payroll systems – ichris, isolved and Huddle

• Assist the payroll manager, finance, and HR colleagues with payroll improvement projects

• Work closely with the Payroll Manager managing payroll data, making changes and ensuring accuracy

• Process mapping and supporting our payroll manager with payroll improvements

• Maximise personal skills, knowledge, and experience to positively impact on performance and assist in meeting business goals

• Maintain and work with our Payroll Manager to improve processes and procedures

• Adhere to the organisation’s policy and procedures on information security and take whatever actions are required to safeguard data and assets.

To be successful within this role, our ideal candidate will:

• Have previous experience working in a manual payroll environment

• Have experience working with payroll systems

• Be confident in using Microsoft Excel with the ability to do VLOOKUP ups and formulate data

• Demonstrate drive and ambition by being keen to learn from the current team and develop skills working on UK, and international payrolls

• Be solutions orientated with a passion for problem solving

• Show excellent organisation and time management skills with the ability to work on all areas of payroll

• Be able to work as part of a small team, but be proactive enough to manage own workload

• Have the ability to build effective relationships with our outsourced providers

• Have proven ability to consistently deliver within a fast-moving environment

• Be proactive, with excellent attention to detail

• Have the ability to build strong relationships with employees across the group at all levels of seniority

• Be computer literate - including good command of Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and internal systems

• Have a strong desire to support with projects and work on process improvements

So if you are looking for your next challenge, please get in touch we'd love to hear from you!