Harriet Doughty
Ipswich,Suffolk
Summary
Proven track record in payroll processing with focus on accuracy and compliance. Skilled in managing sensitive data and maintaining confidentiality. Strong communication and problem-solving abilities, ensuring seamless payroll operations. Enthusiastic about contributing to team and enhancing payroll efficiency.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Payroll Specialist
Vertas Group Ltd
Ipswich
2018.01 - Current
- Data input for 13 monthly payrolls over 3 different pay dates.
- Experience in running end to end payroll from data entry to termination, ensuring FPS is submitted on time and the EPS is submitted by the 19th of each month. However, from September 2025, payroll was outsourced to the provider Resource Link (Zellis) so they are responsible for end processing of the payrolls now.
- Check payroll preview reports and liaise with Zellis of changes required to ensure employees pay is correct.
- Involved in admin tasks involving overpayment letters, AE (Auto enrolment letters), Occupational sick pay expiry letters.
- Processing 26 pensions, including LGPS Schemes, Teachers Pension, Royal London salary sacrifice and NEST schemes. Tasks include reconciling monthly data, ensuring i-connect reports for eligible LGPS schemes are correct for processing within the pensions portal and raising payments with our finance team to be paid.
- Complete pension leaver forms for LGPS schemes and answer email queries from pension providers
- Complete year end pension process for pensions. This varies as each scheme requires different processes
- Support our people team with TUPE data, reviewing ELI's to ensure data provided is correct from a payroll point of view.
- Managed payroll inboxes, providing timely responses to queries and escalating issues to HR as required.
Payroll Administrator
Daisy Group
Northampton
2008.01 - 2018.01
- Managed transfer from OpenPeople to Sage payroll system, conducting parallel runs to ensure data accuracy for go live date.
- Assisted in payroll operations, including data input and processing overtime for Sage import.
- Processed P11Ds yearly by collating and calculating benefits data, then manually uploading to Sage P11D system.
- Manage the daily running of the expenses inbox and webexpenses system; this includes setting up new users and processing the claims.
- Generated reports from the payroll and webexpenses system upon request.
Education
GCSEs -
Westbourne High School
Ipswich, SFK2007-01
Skills
- Payroll processing
- Payroll regulations
- Payroll auditing
- Data analysis
- Microsoft Office expertise
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Team collaboration
Timeline
Senior Payroll Specialist
Vertas Group Ltd
2018.01 - Current
Payroll Administrator
Daisy Group
2008.01 - 2018.01
GCSEs -
Westbourne High School