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Ben St Ruth

Summary

Proficient in Payroll and Human Resources with broad experience in various positions. Capable of organizing and prioritizing tasks effectively in fast-paced settings, ensuring all responsibilities are fulfilled accurately and on time. Background includes payroll processing, project work, and account reconciliation. Completed AAT diploma

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience

Work history

Payroll Officer

Clarion Housing Group
05.2016 - 07.2025
  • Worked on successful Workday implementation project, completing build requirements, system testing and data load, combining two legacy payrolls of 4,000+ employees on to new system for deployment
  • Processed monthly payroll including starters, leavers, maternity leave, pension changes, overtime and sickness
  • Covered payroll in Manager's absence, included running payroll and answering queries
  • Ran post payroll reports for pension contributions, third party deductions to report figures and arrange pay overs

Payroll Finance Assistant

Aviva
06.2012 - 01.2016
  • Reconciled the payroll General Ledger control accounts with the monthly data; analysed and matched entries, checked payments made and prepared monthly journals to balance accounts
  • Allocated payments made to company bank account to the correct ledger
  • Ensured payment requests being made had the correct authorisation; worked with cash management team to ensure provision of funds for larger payments; reconciled amounts debited from account to daily request totals

HR Project Support Assistant

Aviva
04.2002 - 05.2012
  • Managed reorganisation projects by liaising with Business Partners to ensure alignment. Calculated redundancy figures and notice periods, issuing formal letters and answering queries related to redundancy process.
  • Implemented Annual pay review and performance awards. Ensured managers completed on line reviews accurately and did not exceed budgets. Answered queries from managers and employees.
  • Tested enhancements and improved functionality to payroll before live introduction of annual and monthly upgrades by creating, running and signing off test cases

Education

AAT Diploma -

BA (Hons) - undefined

The University of Derby

Skills

  • Payroll processing, reporting and administration
  • Workday implementation
  • Excel pivot tables and mail merging
  • Data manipulation and analysis
  • General ledger reconciliation
  • Oracle

Accomplishments

  • Worked on Workday implementation project, completing build requirements, system testing and data load, combining two legacy payrolls of 4,000+ employees on to new system for deployment.
  • Successfully delivered pay review for 3,500 employees in the RAC business as part of project team; personally responsible for ensuring all salaries and allowances were correctly updated on the payroll within the set deadline.
  • Undertook improvement of Net Pay control account. Analysed entries allocated to ledger and streamlined monthly reconciliation to clear balance more efficiently. Investigated historic items on the account and arranged clearance of all entries.

Timeline

Payroll Officer

Clarion Housing Group
05.2016 - 07.2025

Payroll Finance Assistant

Aviva
06.2012 - 01.2016

HR Project Support Assistant

Aviva
04.2002 - 05.2012

BA (Hons) - undefined

The University of Derby

AAT Diploma -

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