Our accountancy practice client is recruiting for an experienced Payroll Administrator to join the team at its office in Stanmore. This expanding and successful accountancy practice provides professional accountancy services to a range of clients, from SMEs to larger companies, across a range of sectors.
Currently the payroll department has around 160 payrolls in total and these are made up of; 50% sole director payrolls, six payrolls of 10 to 39 employees and two have 40 to 50 employees.
Within this stand-alone role, the Payroll Administrator will be carrying out the following tasks:
- Processing weekly and monthly and annual payrolls for a variety of clients across a range of sectors
- Processing starters, leavers and other payroll entries
- Processing amendments to salaries and employee data
- Resolution of day-to-day queries and liaising with clients to request information to prepare their payroll
- Calculating and checking the clients’ payroll for approval
- Reconciling client payrolls ensuring all payrolls processed are accurate
- Providing approval reports to the clients
- Providing post payroll reporting to the client
- Processing auto-enrolment opt-in and opt-out
- Dealing with clients’ and employees’ payroll queries
- Liaising with HMRC and dealing with queries
- Ensuring the payroll database is up-to-date and accurate
- Issuing P45s
- Ensuring all electronic filing is complete
- General bookkeeping work
To be considered for this Payroll Administrator position, applicants will satisfy to following:
- Previous payroll experience, preferably within a practice environment
- An understanding of statutory payroll requirements i.e. SSP, SMP, SPP, PAYE & NI
- High levels of accuracy and attention to detail
- Strong IT skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Be focused upon providing a first-class service to clients