Payroll Assistant

Role: Payroll Assistant
Contract Type: Office based 9am to 5pm
Salary: £25k-£28k (with the possibility of study support) + benefits
Location: Finchley

Primary role:

- To support a full range of payroll services to a wide variety of clients under the supervision of experienced team members.
- Be a point of contact for clients for payroll queries on a day-to-day basis.

Key responsibilities:

- Full range of payroll duties including annual, quarterly, monthly and weekly payrolls:
      • Processing of starters and leavers
      • Preparing payroll to be paid by BACS
      • Issue of payslips and payroll summaries
      • Opening / Closing PAYE schemes

- Process Real Time Information (RTI) submissions to HMRC as required
- End of Year processing and reconciliations including: end of year RTI submissions and issue of P60s
- Establish your own client portfolio over a period of time
- To follow and help develop processes for the delivery of payroll client work
- Develop and maintain good working relationships with clients
- Actively take a role in your own development
- Ensure client satisfaction with regards to services provided to them 
- Role model for firm values and behaviours

Technical Qualifications:
- Studying towards CIPP qualification – optional but recommended, can support if wants to begin studying.

Key behavioural abilities/competencies required:

Management
• Being organised: juggling different clients and workloads during busy periods
• Confidence in decision making abilities
Wellbeing
• Supporting colleagues
Innovation
• Looking at the bigger picture and higher-level issues: understanding the wider implications of your client work and the client’s broader situation
Intellectual
• Problem solving applying wider knowledge to help find solutions
• Relationships
• Building relationships with clients
• Strong relationships with peers, internal managers and partners

Please note this vacancy is represented by Reed Enfield Accounts/Finance, should you be interested in this opportunity, please apply now and a Reed representative will be in contact to discuss the full details should you have suitable experience.