Payroll Assistant

SF Recruitment have partnered with a brilliant business based in Pinxton, Nottingham who are recruiting for a Payroll Assistant to cover a fixed term contract for a period of around 11-12 months. You will be joining a growing business with a strong position in their field, and it could lead to something long term for the right candidate.
Duties of the Payroll Assistant:
- End-to-end payroll processing, which currently includes 210+ weekly paid employees.
- Timekeeping records for Agency workers.
- Processing attachment of earnings, deductions, absence/holiday's, salary sacrifice payments etc.
- Assisting with the administration of our Learning and Development training suite.
- Updating employee records and processing any changes to employee information.
- Processing any benefit payments/allowances and preparing P11d's.
- Issuing P60's and P45's when required.
- Actioning Maternity, Paternity, adoption leave and pay calculations.
- Supporting in the processing and communication of any pay increases or bonuses.
- Inputting new starters onto payroll systems and processing any leavers.
- Uploading Pension auto-enrolments and maintaining required pension information.
- Filing and auditing personnel records.
- Validating shift logs and inputting onto the payroll system.
- Uploading bank payments.
- Assisting in HR/Payroll admin.
- Absence monitoring.
- Running all payroll related reports on a weekly basis.
- Dealing with Ad-hoc payroll queries from employees and HMRC.
- Any other reasonable requests for the need of the business.
Skills and experience required:
- Use of a payroll system is essential, knowledge/experience of Sage payroll would be desirable.
- Methodical and analytically focused.
- Strong organisational skills.
- Attention to detail is essential.
- The ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Use of initiative.
- Ability to maintain employee records.
- Excellent written and verbal communication.
- Experience of using Microsoft 365.
- Professionalism
Benefits:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free Parking on site
- Use of a 24/7 Employee assistance programme
- Smart casual dress code
- Additional holiday allowance
If you are an experience payroll candidate looking for your next assignment, please apply for immediate consideration.