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ERA Senior Administrator, Insolvency
Date: Jan 17, 2020
Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom
Company: KPMG UK
KPMG’s Restructuring team are looking for a specialist experienced Employee Claims Senior Administrator to join their team.
The team of trusted advisors offer a full range of services to stressed and distressed businesses, ranging from formal insolvency through to advising profitable businesses on enhancing value and solving issues.
This role will be focusing purely on employee related matters arising on our distressed advisory and insolvency engagements.
The North team where the vacancy is listed is made up of approximately 80 people, led by 3 partners and a team of directors. The successful candidate will likely be aligned to this North part of the practice but will also join our small national Employee Claims team and have a line manager within this team, although we are open to considering other locations from applicants.
The work services a full spectrum of businesses from small owner managed concerns through to large multinationals, right across the UK.
Whilst this role would primarily be office based and the base location is flexible to any UK office. However periodic travel (often at short notice) to deal with employee matters on live engagements will be required. This will on occasion require travel across the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support engagement manager on insolvency assignments in dealing with all employee aspects of the case.
- Oversee completion process for employees of relevant forms to seek to ensure submission on a timely basis.
- Prepare employee related correspondence for manager approval, including letters, emails and file notes of key employee related decisions.
- Attend employee meetings to assist in answering employees’ queries, including potentially leading challenging meetings alongside more senior staff.
- Ensure minutes of any employee meetings are taken and maintained on file.
- Liaise with company HR staff to ensure all employee records are retained.
- Liaise with the engagement manager, company payroll staff (or a payroll bureau) and our cashiers to ensure that wages are paid where required.
- Ensure tax and RTI payments and filings are completed on an accurate and timely basis.
- Work closely with our Pensions team on any pension and auto-enrolment matters.
- Update and maintain IPS for employee information.
- Agree employees’ preferential and unsecured claims for manager approval.
- Field any ongoing employee queries throughout the life of an insolvency case.
- Provide specialist advice to our team on advisory engagements where insolvency may be a possible outcome.
Key skills and competencies required:
- Ideally several years’ experience in a similar role in an insolvency practice, preferably using IPS.
- Previous payroll/HR experience in wider industry preferable, although not essential.
- Highly organised and have an ability to prioritise effectively.
- Have flexibility to be able to respond to sudden and sharp changes in workload.
- Common sense and an eye for detail/accuracy.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to remain calm and professional in times of stress.
- The confidence and ability to challenge more senior staff on matters such as employee consultation.
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