Payroll Accounts Assistant

MacKenzie King are recruiting for a business based on the outskirts of Ipswich’s town centre that has had a strong period of growth and requires a new member of the team to support there already established and successful finance function. This Payroll Accounts Assistant position will work to manage the 60 employee strong weekly payroll from end to end as well as a number of other key finance functions. For a candidate with strong payroll experience this is a fantastic opportunity to make the most of a varied background of experience, play a key role in a successful business and be rewarded for it with a competitive salary, performance tracked bonus and supportive working environment.

Key Responsibilities

Payroll:

• Process Payroll from weekly time sheets
• Raise BACS to pay
• Record holiday/obtain approval
• Record absence
• Deduct Child Maintenance and any other deduction of earnings
• Calculate and analyse Average Weekly Wages
• Pension payments report
• Update employee records
• Record employee loans
• Wage analysis and entering costings to allocate costs to jobs

General Accounting:

• Set up new Suppliers on the system
• Set up new Customers on the system
• Set up new jobs in and update job list
• Change/amend bank details as necessary
• Check off and post monthly supplier invoices
• Raise ad hoc bank payments
• Petty Cash - reconcile, analyse & journal

Monthly supplier runs:

• Run reports to check all invoices received and logged
• Produce list of potential suppliers to pay
• Allocate invoices to be paid against supplier
• Raise BACS to pay suppliers
• Email remittance advices
• Print, obtain job numbers and approval

Stock

• Analyse stock taken from stores by job and journal cost onto Sage 200

Fuel invoices

• Download, print off invoices and process onto Sage 200