Payroll Senior/Assistant Manager (Hybrid)

Meyer Scott Ref: VR/09033

Salary: £30K - £35K dep upon whether you are Senior Payroll as well as an Assistant Manager.

Location: Bury St Edmunds

Type: Permanent (Poss. Hybrid)

Our client is seeking to recruit an experienced Payroll Senior, or Assistant Manager (subject to the level of prior experience) for their Payroll team.

In this varied role you will be working within a small, busy team, running multiple payrolls for a wide range of clients who operate in sectors such as manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, professional services and retail. We run more than 300 payrolls, ranging from single director companies up to around two hundred employees.

This is a role with real scope to further develop your existing payroll skills. If appointed at Assistant Manager grade you will also be assisting and supervising junior staff within the team, on behalf of the department manager.

Responsibilities:

• End to end payroll processing for a range of clients
• BACs payment processing
• Direct client contact
• Payroll query resolution
• Deadline management
• Assisting & supervising junior staff (Assistant Manager grade only)

Essential skills required:

• Able to work in an accurate, diligent and methodical manner with excellent attention to detail
• Able to manage multiple priorities at the same time
• Competent in use of IT, especially MS Office (Word, Excel)
• High level understanding and practical application of all areas of end-to-end payroll (minimum 2 years for Senior, 3 years for Assistant Manager) including:
• Auto-enrolment pensions
• Statutory payments
• Holiday pay legislation
• Minimum wage legislation
• HMRC and RTI legislation
• Directors' payments
• Basic HR/employment law awareness
• Previous significant payroll administration experience and knowledge of payroll processing. Experience should be in multiple payrolls and/or payrolls of significant size/complexity
• Full UK driving licence and own transport

Desirable skills and experience:

• Previous experience in a UK practice/professional services environment
• CIPP certificates / Foundation degree in payroll management
• Experience of any or all of the following:
• Star/IRIS Payroll Professional
• Sage payroll
• HMRC Basic Tools
• BACS processing (in particular, use of PT-X)
• Experience with CCH suite

The package includes:

• Core holiday allowance is 23 days, option to salary sacrifice to buy up to 5 additional days per year.
• Pension is the People's Pension, contributions 4% employer 5% employee (4% after tax relief).
• Free onsite parking
• Bupa cover

This is a full-time position of 37.5 hours per week. The role can be combined with an element of homeworking under the firm's agile working policy.