Senior Payroll Officer

Description:

Do you want to work within a supportive, friendly and thriving business where you can become an essential part of their growing Payroll department? This highly regarded accountancy has an opening for a Senior Payroll Officer to join them to help shape their team and manage their busy workload, and in return they offer flexibility, a fantastic working environment and endless opportunities!

Job Title: Senior Payroll Officer

Location: Exeter / Hybrid working

Salary: Up to £34,000 DOE

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours Monday to Friday - however the company offer flexi-time around core hours of 10am-4pm

Benefits: Company contributory pension, Employee Reward Scheme including Private Healthcare option, rising holiday allowance based on length of employment, flexi-time scheme, social events

The Company: A reputable local friendly accountancy firm with a national presence, whose origins began over 90 years ago in 1930. Now one of the top chartered accountants in the country but still offering a personal and down to earth approach to clients and staff. They have excellent employee retention, providing a welcoming and inclusive work environment, with many social events in the calendar.

The Role: We have a great opportunity for a Senior Payroll Officer to join the friendly and busy Payroll Team in this established accountancy practice. Working alongside the Payroll Manager, your main responsibility will be running end to end payrolls for over 350 clients as part of the team in a timely fashion. Additionally, you will review and nurture the juniors' work and assist with their development.

This company really values its employees and believes in inclusivity and a collaborative working style, resulting in a happy workforce and ensuring their clients reap the rewards!

Responsibilities and Duties:

Working with the Payroll Manager to ensure client payrolls are delivered correctly and on time
Review juniors' work and assist with their development
Assisting the Payroll Manager with ad hoc project work
Assistance with the training of staff
Create and maintain worker records on the payroll software
Collate and sort payroll information prior to processing
Process payroll data
Prepare monthly bacs payments for client employees
Resolve payroll discrepancies and investigate errors and irregularities
Alter tax codes and payroll data via HMRC data provisioning service and pension providers
Send weekly and monthly reports to HMRC and pension providers
Maintain compliance and legislation in relation to payroll procedures
Calculate and process holiday payments
Act alongside the Payroll Team as a first point of contact for enquiries, and respond to or refer enquiries as appropriate
Process payroll changes in Sage, liaising with the clients for information and making relevant changes to employees' records
Administering the starter, leaver, changes process to ensure all client payrolls have accurate and relevant information
Provide administrative support and cover within the payroll team
Support the Payroll team in the achievement of company priorities and objectives, demonstrating a "can-do" attitude and a flexible and resourceful approach
Undertake all responsibilities with regard to policies and practices for Health and Safety and Equal Opportunities
Understand how to assist in the provision of business support to the Payroll Team including day to day tasks such as document creation, using Excel spreadsheets, electronic filing and distribution of information
Create client invoices in conjunction with worker timesheets using accounting software
Act as an effective team member providing assistance to others as requested

About you:

Payroll experience, preferably using Sage Payroll
Experience of creating and uploading pension contributions to multiple pension providers
Bureaux or practice experience beneficial
Competent IT user including MS Office and various software packages
Manages own workload and is proactive if help or support is needed
Adopts calm and assured approach, makes time for people, collaborative
Ability to multitask, whilst demonstrating excellent time management skills to ensure all deadlines and expectations are met
Good analytical skills
A friendly, can-do attitude and positive demeanourTo Apply: If this role is of interest to you then please apply online, send your CV to (url removed) or call our office on (phone number removed).

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