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Payroll Assistant

  • Banking, Finance, Insurance, Accounting and Trade jobs

Description

  • Supporting the Payroll Team Lead
  • Raising invoices and credit notes
  • Running small payrolls, corrections, adjustments and refunds 
  • Helping with client queries and escalations where appropriate
  • Assisting with contractor queries
  • Ensuring monthly contractors are being paid in the correct tax month
  • Ensuring any overpayments are being recovered  
  • Processing P45s and statement of earnings on request
  • Allocating CR transactions 
  • Bank reconciliation
  • Processing SSP, court orders and holiday pay
  • Submitting RTI’s
  • Chasing agencies for funds or remittances  

Responsibilities

  • 1-year relevant payroll or temporary contractor workplace experience
  • Exceptional attention to detail and high level of accuracy
  • The ability to work well in a team and independently – we need you to be a self-starter and happy to take on a variety of tasks, adapting to changing business needs
  • A great working knowledge of all Microsoft applications (Dynamics would be amazing!)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills – you need to feel comfortable communicating with people at levels across all areas of our business and with our clients
  • Superb levels of written and spoken English (bonus points if you are multi-lingual too!)

Hard Skills

  • Microsoft Office
  • Word processing
  • Outlook Express
  • Advanced Excel Skills (queries, pivot tables, formulas, macros)
  • Processing cash transaction
  • Billing, Invoicing, Collection
  • Account Reconciliation
  • Payroll
  • Advanced writing skills

Soft Skills

  • Communication
  • Team player
  • Self-motivated
  • Attention to detail

We offer

  • Invaluable Experience working within an established (and still growing!) payroll business
  • Starting Salary of £22,000 per annum
  • 20 days holiday + Birthday day off + Bank Holidays + flexibility over the Christmas period
  • Pension (auto enrolment)
  • Super relaxed working environment – we mainly work from home these days, but we do also have a trendy office space right by Watford Junction for those days when you just need to see a friendly face!
  • Free Perkbox subscription (that’s a free weekly coffee at Nero, free weekly cinema tickets, shopping and restaurant discounts and loads more!)