Payroller

Working as part of a well-established team, you will assist and ensure an effective payroll service for the organisation’s new and existing client portfolio. Our client range covers payrolls for various payroll periods, therefore a knowledge of multiple payrolls both weekly, fortnightly and monthly is essential.

Day to day duties:

• Enter payroll information, checking for errors or discrepancies.
• Process leavers and starters.
• Process sick leave, maternity leave, pensions, student loans etc.
• Produce payslips and associated reports to send to clients.
• Pension auto-enrolment assessment and processing.
• Process the payroll year end for all clients ensuring that information is correctly recorded and reported.
• Update the payroll customers’ contact information.
• Answer and respond to telephone and e-mail queries when required.
• Keep the filing system secure and orderly.
• Perform redundancy entitlement, salary and holiday pay calculations as requested.
• Back-up the system to ensure safe storage of information.
• Contribute to an interesting and informative website area for payroll clients

• Other Payroll Tasks.
• Carry out other tasks of a financial nature as required.
• To maintain confidentiality of payroll paperwork and systems.

The Professional

The successful candidate will be competent within payroll, although a background in professional services or a bureau would be an an advantage, applications from payroll professionals outside this remit are also welcomed.

Key Skills required

• Experience in payroll and processing year end payroll annual returns.
• Experience of auto-enrolment workplace pensions.

Competencies

• Good numerical and IT skills
• Good spoken and written communication skills
• An organised and methodical approach
• Logical thinking and problem-solving ability
• A high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Good time management for meeting strict deadlines
• The ability to work well as part of a team
• Honesty and respect for confidential information.

Desirable Skills

• International payroll/tax experience
• Exposure to chargeable time and timesheets is advantageous
• Microsoft excel
• Experience of star payroll systems is desirable