Payroll Adviser
Location: Blackburn
Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent (Monday to Friday)
Salary: Depending on experience
About the Practice:
We are working with a vibrant, dynamic and award-winning firm of Chartered Accountants and business advisers, with offices in Blackburn and Bury and a hub in Burnley, covering East Lancashire, Greater Manchester and beyond.
The role in brief:
Who they are looking for:
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This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has a minimum of 3-4 years’ experience in the bureau industry. Due to the fast-paced environment being deadline and process driven, you will need to think and act fast whilst maintaining accuracy and a high customer service experience.
What the role involves:
- To collect and enter high volumes of payroll data, supplied by clients, into Payroll software to meet deadlines.
- To ensure all security and confidentiality policies are adhered to.
- To ensure a high standard of processing whilst working efficiently and to tight deadlines.
- To assist in the processing and calculation of net pay, for each employee on a client’s payroll, using either computer software, or manually, applying the rules and tables supplied by HMRC.
- To notify clients of amounts due to HMRC.
- To assist in the production, for transmission via BACS on the relevant dates, of net pay details to the correct bank accounts.
- To assist in balancing payroll figures to produce all relevant month and year end reports for each client.
- To assist with the transmission to HMRC, via RTI (Real Time Information), forms P45, P46, FPS and EPS returns.
- To ensure timeliness of downloads from HMRC and pension providers about tax codes, Student Loan notices and opt out dates.
- To ensure appropriate records are kept and recorded appropriately.
- To maintain an awareness of and can adapt to changes in legislation affecting payroll processing and PAYE in general.
- To assist in the auto-enrolment process for clients, by understanding the legislation, creating reports via our payroll software and liaising with pensions providers.
- To liaise with HM Revenue and Customs, DWP and other associated bodies.
- To have an awareness of CIS, the deadlines and responsibilities required
Your development
- Our client provides a complementary range of learning opportunities to ensure that you maximize your potential in areas such as becoming a trusted adviser, how to network, presentation skills etc with opportunities for progression around the firm. These will comprise personal effectiveness as well as your technical skills.
- They have 6 monthly performance review conversations to ensure your development is on track, as well as optional monthly 1-2-1s. You will also work with a mentor.
- They also encourage you to get involved in wider firm initiatives and have your say on how we can progress on our journey towards being the best North-West firm of finance professionals.
- Opportunity to complete your CIPP should you wish is also something we could look to support you with
Your attributes:
As well as experience in the payroll bureau industry, they'd like you to be:- Keen to play an active role in a dynamic team and willing to contribute to the success of the team and the firm.
- Passionate about providing great client service.
- Great at communicating with people at all levels – face to face and in writing.
- Positive and good at using your initiative
- Good at working under pressure.
- Motivated and well organized.
- Able to work as a team player and assist others whilst also being able to work on your own.
Benefits:
- 25 days’ holiday per annum + bank holidays
- Office closedown over Winter Break
- Flexible Easter Break, to account for other religious festivals
- On site free parking
- Employer pension contribution of 8%,
- Death in service life cover of 4 x salary
- Income protection scheme
- Weekly flexi time
- Agreed overtime
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental pay
- Flexible benefits (salary sacrifice) scheme including a range of benefits such as private medical insurance, extra holidays, electric car scheme etc
- Hybrid working
- Full technical and soft skills training and support
- Recruitment incentive scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee well-being portal
- Access to the WeCare app that offers health, well-being, financial and legal support
- Dress for your day policy and dress down Fridays
- Paid sick leave
- Extensive learning & development opportunities and study support
- Firm wide success bonus based on the achievement of certain financial metric(s).
- Access to Dashlane password manager for you + 9 of your family and friends
- Fee-free service to whole of market mortgage and insurance advice
- Access to Able Futures support, a Mental Health Support Service
For more information, please contact the below:
Amy Doumbia
Recruitment Consultant
T: 07842 313 876
E: amy@supreme-ss.com