**YOU MUST BE RESIDING IN THE UK CURRENTLY, HAVE UK BASED EXPERIENCE AND NOT REQUIRE A SPONSORSHIP TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION, PLEASE OTHERWISE DO NOT APPLY AS YOUR APPLICATION WONT BE PROCESSED**
You must meet all the essential criteria also for your application to be considered.

Company details and job overview:

Kenton Black Finance are supporting a business based in the Milnthorpe area who have been operating for over 100 years. Since the Company's early beginnings supplying the local and UK market, they have steadily increased their customer base on a global scale. Worldwide, they now serve over 220 clients in 49 countries with a product range that includes over 50 professional products. They are currently recruiting for a Payroll Assistant to work on a full-time and permanent basis. Hybrid working is an option.

Your new job as the Payroll Assistant:

- Managing the end to end payroll process for circa 135 members of staff
- Checking the number of hours employees have worked
- Calculating wages and salaries
- Issuing employees wages by BACS
- Collaborating with the human resources department to maintain employee data
- Calculating pay raises, shift payments and overtime compensation
- Issuing tax forms and related documentation and assisting employees to complete them
- Deducting tax and insurance payments
- Resolving issues employees have with timesheets, payslips and other payroll matters
- Changing employee bank records when necessary to process payments accurately

Experience and skills required to apply:

- At least 2 years experience in a similar job i.e. Payroll Specialist, Payroll Administrator
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
- Attention to detail
- Organised and driven
- Capable of working to deadlines
- The ability to work under pressure
- A team player

Kenton Black Finance operate across the UK as a market leading recruitment partner, specialising in the attraction of finance talent across both permanent and interim requirements. With a team of dedicated experts, each with longevity operating in the finance arena, we maintain a proven track record and have established partnerships with businesses both large, small and those in their infancy. Market leaders, we provide recruitment solutions from entry level finance to directorship professionals. Operating from local offices in Preston, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Aberdeen and Glasgow, Kenton Black Finance remain a dynamic and effective recruitment partner who represent and attract only the finest finance talent in the local area and across the UK.