Assistant Payroll Manager

Assistant Payroll Manager, Leamington Spa£30,000 per annum

• Responsible for ensuring monthly payroll is processed timely and with precision.
• Answering payroll queries from business heads.
• Ensure all processes are implemented suitably, compliantly, promptly and to deadlines.
• Work with the senior team to outline standards and modifiable approaches for payroll operations.
• The Assistant Payroll Manager will perform the following duties, tasks, and responsibilities:
• Be responsible for accurately running the monthly payroll including HMRC payments and payroll journal
• Produce pension data on a monthly basis and successfully submit the data to various pension scheme providers
• Ensure a balance in payroll accounts by auditing information, recognising and correcting irregularities and creating journal entries
• Initiate team meetings on a monthly basis.
• Keep records up to date by reviewing and entering modifications, including exemptions, deductions, status and pay, vacation earned, paid time not worked and insurance modifications
• Attain payroll monetary standards by offering yearly budget information, identifying variances, monitoring expenditures, and executing modifying actions
• Offer assistance in supervising workload, assessing direct reports and may revise the evaluation and departmental plans of other personnel
• Guarantee that team members obtain the mandatory skills and work according to business and personal development requirements
• Offer guidance to and share knowledge with team members in relation to their area of specialisation
• Act as a backup for team members who are on annual leave or high-magnitude work operations

Requirements - Qualities - Knowledge, Skills and Abilities.

• At least five years of functional experience in a payroll location, operating with multiple areas.
• Excellent ability to understand and read short correspondence, memos and instructions
• Display of dexterity in writing sometimes intricate correspondence
• Ability to effectively forward information to clients, a small group or on individual basis, as well as to other members of staff of the company
• Good MS Office skills. Preference given to those with Sage experience