The Payroll & Pension team remit is to provide a comprehensive and compliant payroll and pension function. It impacts on the financial affairs of our employees as well as the business and the HR management.
Payroll & Pension supports the business to ensure compliance, continually reviewing processes and contributes towards quality management and benchmarking to deliver best practice.
Currently there are 5 payrolls to manage:
1 four weekly paid payroll
1 fortnightly paid payroll
3 monthly paid payrolls
Calculating Payroll:
Ensure Tax, NI & Pension are calculated
Analyse sample pays to ensure that they are correct
Identify errors and remedy them before the final run of the payroll
Calculated overpayments
Process Faster Payments for underpayments
Pension Processes:
Ensure pension is deducted at the correct rate
Auto enrolment
Regularly report to Pension agencies – SPFO, SPPA, NEST etc.
Retirement forms, opt outs of pension and other pension forms
Balance & Reconcile Payruns:
Produce file to HMRC for electronic transfer
Produce payslips (paper & E-payslips)
Reconcile to the General Ledger
Reconcile Childcare Vouchers
Other Tasks:
Upload data from HMRC – Tax code changes
Third Party Claims
Employers Liability Claims
Specification of Documents
Enquiries referred from the Helpdesk
Overpayments
The structure of the team is as follows:
Payroll & Pension Manager – Lorraine Buttery
Payroll & Pension Specialist – June Murray, Hazel Taylor, Kerry Harrison & Lucy McCabe
Payroll & Pension Senior Analyst – Diane Barr
Payroll & Pension Analyst – Liz Wilson, Sam Gaul, Daniel O’Neill, Louise Quinn, Megan Gladstone, Claire MacGregor, and Sandra Stark
For any enquires you can use myNL Portal to raise a People Helpdesk or a Payroll General Enquiry case, or contact the People Helpdesk Team (for all non-users of the Portal) on esc-helpdeskteam@northlan.gov.uk for initial investigation