Senior Payroll Assistant

Senior Payroll Assistant

Certain Advantage are hiring for a Senior Payroll Assistant based in Leek Wooton

This role is on a permanent basis and is fully onsite.

The company

We are working with a public sector organisation that focus on community engagement, safeguarding vulnerable individuals, and upholding the highest standards of integrity and service.

The role

• To produce an annual timetable for the production and payment of the payrolls and meet statutory reporting deadlines ensure this is communicated to those individuals who are assigned tasks in the timetable.
• In conjunction with the Transactional Services Manager design and implement a payroll control / audit routine which ensures the payroll is accurate and minimises the risk to the organisation or loss arising from error or fraud.
• To ensure the gross to net run is checked in accordance with payroll procedure and provide performance figures that provide assurance as to the accuracy and timeliness of payroll transactions.
• To ensure that less frequent non-routine or ad-hoc tasks are completed accurately and on time.
• To carryout complex manual pay calculations and adjustments to perform calculations which are outside the functionality of the payroll systems or to verify payroll figures.
• To complete statutory and non-statutory returns.

The individual

• Analytical, numerate, highly accurate and pays attention to detail.
• HMRC PAYE rules and regulatory framework governing payroll.
• Designing and operating payroll controls.
• Understanding of the functionality available from a contemporary payroll system.
• Able to work with technically detailed guidance.
• Using Microsoft office products, Excel, Word and Outlook.
• Good interpersonal communication skills demonstrating the ability to deal tactfully and sensitively with people, and work as part of a team.
• Able to solve problems.
• Ability to operate calmly and professionally under pressure with the ability to re-prioritise workload.
• Able to operate a payroll system and extract data.

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