Payroll Administrator Review

As a Payroll Administrator, my day-to-day tasks involve the following: calculating and keying final disbursement payments for employees leaving the business, running reports and ensuring that new starters have their bank details uploaded on the system, chasing managers to convert new direct reports to employees on PeopleCloud before finalisation, answering any employee pay queries, and also supporting members of my team with any double checking of their work to ensure it is accurate.

I have learnt a lot while working as an apprentice at Nationwide. I have been able to develop my organisation skills through learning to consistently write notes and to-do lists. I have also developed my communication skills immensely throughout the programme, I am now more confident to share my ideas within a team and voice my opinion when I have an opposing idea. Lastly, I have also developed my logical thinking skills and have more confidence to approach any issue and try to resolve it.

I thoroughly enjoy my programme as it has taught me more about the HR world and provided me with the knowledge and confidence to explore the different career options in my business. Being able to work and learn has been a great introduction into the working world and I'm very grateful for this opportunity.

My programme is quite well organised overall. The communication can sometimes not be very good, it seemed this way a lot at the beginning as there was some confusion regarding which course we were actually doing. Also, it was quite difficult to find out what was going to happen at the end of our apprenticeship, for a long time I was chasing this and was never actually told directly. Otherwise it is quite well structured.

I receive a lot of support from my employer. I am always given time to complete any assignments and to make sure that I am up to date on webinars.

I receive a decent amount of support my training provider. If I have any questions, I know who to email and they tend to get back to me in a decent amount of time. However, if the question is urgent sometimes this is not answered straight away and I have to contact other members of my apprenticeship to see what they think.

I think that it definitely helps me to be more organised and helps me to plan ahead to make sure that any deadlines are met in my programme and within my role.

There are no clubs that I am aware of. We do have networking events quite often and social activities within our teams.

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Nationwide are an amazing business to work for. Their treatment of employees is extremely good and the culture is super welcoming. There are also endless lists of employee benefits and initiatives.

Preparing for the interview is definitely my main bit of advice. Making sure that you have all of your examples prepped and what skills they represent is essential to feeling confident going in. Also making sure to always be true to yourself and be a team player.