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Payroll Assistant

£26k - £33k per annum
Full-time

Our client is looking for a motivated payroll admin/assistant to join their team on a permanent basis to continue developing their career within a fast-paced payroll environment.

About the Role: This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic individual wanting to develop their career in Payroll. Working within our hugely personable, supportive, and experienced Payroll team, we will offer you the chance to gain that all-important experience by developing your skillset in a fast paced, high volume and multi frequency payroll environment. We have seen everyone who has worked in this role previously tremendously improve their skillset and go on to have fantastic careers in payroll!

Key Responsibilities
  • Working hands on processing
  • a payroll of 8,500 employees on a monthly basis
  • Manage up to 90 payrolls each week as part of a multi-sited business
  • Tracking, processing, and amending holiday pay, Statutory Sickness Pay and other forms of leave such as maternity/paternity pay, etc
  • Regularly review end to end controls, routines, and duty segregations
  • Attending to telephone payroll queries
  • Assist Payroll Manager in improving policies and procedures, to improve efficiency in the day to day running of the department
  • Take telephone messages
  • Assist the Payroll Managers with ad hoc tasks as required
Required experience
  • Minimum of 2 years proven experience within a similar role, preferably within a similar high volume payroll environment.
  • Experience using Sage Payroll 50
  • Previous experience with end of year updates submission via HMRC PAYE tools (desirable)
  • Excellent Excel skills
About You
  • A natural team player with the ability to work in a team environment as well as being a self-starter with the ability to work on own initiative
  • Ability to cope in a fast-paced environment, manage high volume workloads and deliver work to agreed timescales
  • Flexible with the need to meet tight deadlines
Why Join Us?
  • A supportive, friendly, and experienced payroll team that values teamwork and professional growth.
  • Opportunities for ongoing training and development.
  • A workplace culture built on respect, flexibility, team work and career development.

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.

Vacancy posted 14 hours ago
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