Senior Payroll Administrator

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Our Finance Teams: Our Finance team has a large part to play in the success of our business. We are based across a few locations, but operate as one team, and work together to create a positive, productive and highly efficient finance department within News UK.

Role Objectives

• Accurate and timely end to end processing of 10 various payrolls in collaboration with various departments within News UK and other Group Companies, while adhering to company policy and controls, legislation and best practice
• 2nd line support in resolving payroll queries raised by other members of the team, employees and various departments within News UK, Wireless and other Group Companies.
• Produce periodic and adhoc payroll reports
• Manually calculate gross to net in year and end of year adjustments, including statutory absence pay, PAYE, National Insurance, Student Loans and court orders
• Maintain the debtors list, resolve overpayments and implement repayment plans.
• Assist with the resolution of issues arising on the payroll GL reconciliations, proactive confirmation of expected clearing of manual adjustments.
• Update cash forecast for each payroll net pay and taxes for the Treasury team

Key Skills

• Working towards CIPP Foundation degree or equivalent
• Good understanding of employment law and tax regulations and the application to payroll procedures
• SAP ECC 6 system payroll data entry and reporting
• To manage priorities while working to sensitive payroll deadlines and collaborate at all levels across the business
• Fast and accurate data entry, with excellent attention to detail
• Good Excel skills (Pivot tables, v-look up)
• Understanding of Payroll Accounting practises and procedures

Key Behaviours

• Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work
• Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make
• Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard
• Resilient working under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Ability to collaborate, be agile and pragmatic
• Self-motivated with proactive approach

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.