Vacancy Details

We have partnered with a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers, operating across the UK and Ireland . With an extensive network of offices and a strong reputation for developing talent, they offer excellent career opportunities across a number of locations. We are currently recruiting for vacancies in Glasgow, Portsmouth, Crewe and Ipswich.

We are currently looking for a Payroll Executive to work on a Hybrid basis.

The opportunity

• As an Associate, you will have the ability and motivation needed to:

• Understand and ensure the accurate and timely delivery of client payrolls to agreed deadlines

• Work within your own chargeable time budget

Day to day duties

• Input data for any of the payrolls when necessary, running Audit and validation checks for payroll as well as interfacing of data to General Ledger and Pensions systems

• Monitor SSP, SMP and other statutory payments and calculations

• Process accurate and timely year-end reporting when necessary

• Manage any payroll changes to the time and attendance systems (BMS)

• Administer the end-to-end payroll process and auto enrolment compliance for a portfolio of clients

• You will be on hand to answering any payroll related enquiries from clients and being a trusted advisor

• Acting as first line support for pay queries

• Peer checking of payrolls

• Undertake general administrative duties and work collaboratively within the payroll hub

• Develop relationships with clients, ensuring effective communication with the wider offices, HMRC and other third-party providers

• Effectively communicating with team and wider payroll teams

• Requirement to keep up to date with payroll legislation and industry changes though independent research

What are we looking for?

• Previous payroll administration experience, minimum of one year service within a busy service driven environment (preferably within a bureau environment)

• End to end Payroll processing experience including pensions, benefits and statutory payments

• High level of accuracy and attention to detail across both manual and systems based work

• A natural ability to coordinate, prioritise and multitask with little supervision

• Strong customer focused approach, ability to handle customer queries by telephone and email

• Be able to adapt to a highly changeable environment

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work under pressure whilst meeting tight deadlines

• Knowledge and understanding of payroll legislation, processing, and auto enrolment regulations

• Must have the ability to manually calculate a payroll 

• Willing to study for a CIPP Foundation degree qualification