Vacancy Details

We have partnered with a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, who have over a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join their many offices.

They are currently looking for a Senior Payroll Executive for their Ipswich office working on a Hybrid basis.

The opportunity

As a Senior, you will have the ability and motivation needed to:

• Begin to take ownership of your own portfolio with support from your manager

• Support in delivering revenue and profitability targets

• Begin to develop enduring client relationships

Day to day duties

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

• Deal with all associated payroll processing tasks required for processing to completion of the payroll process

• Manage client expectations

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

• Working as part of the wider team to review work produced by more junior team members and support the Payroll Manager

• Leading by example in regards to attitude and processing of payrolls, so others in the team will follow suit

• Being the first point of contact to the team to assist and support the team in responding to queries from clients, HMRC, 3rd party providers etc.

• Support in regards to legislation and system queries

• Completing regular training for the wider team, which could range from information about legislation to systems

• Peer checking of payrolls

• Streamlining any current processes within the team/ Updating and maintaining payroll records/files

• Any ad-hoc duties or projects that may be necessary

• Producing and developing ad hoc financial and operational reporting as needed

What are we looking for?

• Over two years‘ experience in payroll with experience using STAR (experience in a bureau environment would be highly desirable)

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

• Must have the ability to manually calculate a payroll?

• 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

• In depth knowledge and understanding of payroll legislation, processing, and auto enrolment regulations

• Effective client management experience and steps towards staff management

• Mentorship and coaching experience to support other team members to ensure they perform work duties

• Ideally with a CIPP Foundation degree qualification or working towards this qualification