Payroll & HR Consultancy
Payroll is a rapidly changing arena whose efficient and compliant operations are vital for supporting your organisation’s growth, business objectives and profitability.
We offer a variety of services which share the common goal of identifying innovative solutions to help improve your organisation’s payroll structure and processes.
Payroll Assessments
A Payroll Assessment constitutes a detailed “health-check” which examines your payroll procedures and your team’s knowledge and experience to gauge compliance with the range of statutory and contractual obligations, but also to critically evaluate their efficiency and robustness.
We will work alongside your team to analyse all or any of the below aspects of your payroll processes:
• Core payroll processes, deadlines and workflows
• PAYE Income Tax and National Insurance calculations
• Pension scheme administration
• Auto-enrolment processes and assessments
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Calculation of benefits-in-kind
• P11D and/or payrolled benefit administration
• Expense reimbursement policies
• PAYE Settlement Agreements
• Termination payment calculations and correct income tax/NIC treatment
• Overpayment recovery practices
• Scrutiny of employment contracts and policies
• Payroll staff knowledge and training
• Annual leave entitlement policies and calculations
• Holiday pay calculations
• Data protection considerations
• Employment Status and SDS “IR35” determinations
• Correct off-payroll worker processing
• Gross-up calculations
• National Minimum Wage (NMW) and National Living Wage (NLW) compliance
We can provide the guidance to ensure your payroll department is able to support your upcoming business initiative.
Following this comprehensive review, you will receive a detailed report outlining any risk or inefficiency areas identified alongside practical recommendations for their resolution.
Furthermore, we provide an additional 1-hour remote consultancy session to discuss the findings detailed on our report and guide you on the next steps to drive forward the solutions we advocate.
Ad-Hoc Payroll Consultancy
Payroll departments face additional challenges from time to time; generating issues outside of your existing employees normal requirements. We can relieve you of any ‘stress’ and ‘concerns’ by providing the guidance necessary to ensure the correct approach is taken.
Tupe Transfers
Business transfers create particular complexities for the payroll department as the Terms & Conditions of the incoming or outgoing employees need to be assimilated within their new organisation’s payroll software parameters and procedures.
Payrolling of Benefits
The decision to migrate away from cumbersome P11Ds and move to payrolling of benefits is increasingly common following HMRC’s announced an intention to withdraw P11D reporting for most benefits from April 2027. Whilst payrolling benefits does have merits, it can create headaches if not adopted carefully.
We can help you navigate through these hurdles to ensure your payrolled benefits processes are launched seamlessly by:
• Designing with you a project plan for the implementation of your payrolled benefits
• Identifying which benefits to payroll and their impact on your employees
• Formulating the communications to employees and other internal stakeholders
• Devising the new procedures required to ensure your payrolled benefits are processed efficiently and accurately
• Train your payroll team with your organisation’s new payrolled benefits procedures.
Salary Sacrifice
Enabling employees to sacrifice part of their salaries in exchange for benefit(s) bring fiscal and practical advantages for employer and employee alike. But they require the right contractual documentation and processes to ensure the meet what HMRC defines as an “effective salary sacrifice scheme”.
We work with you to ensure the right processes and documents are in place to keep all relevant parties happy, including HMRC!
Annual Leave & Holiday Pay
Identifying and calculating the correct holiday entitlements for your workers is an essential yet deceptively complicated arena.
Let us help you navigate through the complex calculations and procedures required to ensure your employees receive their correct annual leave and holiday pay entitlements.