Payroll Assistant

Venesky-Brown Recruitment are looking to expand our already outstanding team! We are looking to recruit a Payroll Assistant on a permanent basis on a salary of circa £28,000-£30,000 per annum. Comprehensive benefits package, including life insurance, private medical insurance, critical illness cover and health cash plan. Hybrid working with 1 or 2 days in our Edinburgh city centre office per week.
Responsibilities:
Payroll Function
- Checking information against timesheets to ensure accuracy of recorded data within payroll system
- Monitoring candidate query portal (Freshdesk) and responding in a timely, courteous and understanding manner
- Liaising with the Construction and Frameworks teams to ensure new starts are set up in the payroll system correctly
- Supporting the processing of weekly payroll for UK PAYE workers and Umbrella and Ltd companies
- Processing requests for leave and other absences
- Ensure system records are accurate and audit at regular intervals to ensure quality control
- Identifies, investigates, and resolves discrepancies in timesheet and payroll records
- Ensure system records are accurate and audit at regular intervals to ensure quality control
- Assist with set up of new clients when required
- Analysing payroll data and calculating corrections
- Analysing time reports prior to import to payroll software
- Calculating subsistence payments
- Collating weekly timesheets and reporting
- Analysing paid hours and reporting to clients
Credit Control Function
- Preparing and issuing sales invoices
- Preparing and issuing Application for Payments for Construction Clients
- Comparing Client Assessments with our assessments and identifying variances and liaising with external QS’s to resolve
- Client queries e.g. breakdown of invoices, copies being issued
- Identifying issues with Aged Debt and liaising with clients to minimise Bad Debts.
Essential Skills:
- Previous experience of working within a busy finance environment
- Previous experience of payroll would be advantageous
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as part of a team
- First class communications skills – verbal and written
- Strong attention to detail
- Good at problem solving
- Methodical information collection, analysis and management
- A highly organised approach to work
- Meet deadlines in a timely manner
- Excellent Microsoft Office/Excel skills
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.