Payroll Assistant

Start Date: January 2025  
Hours: 30 hours per week, some flexibility to be discussed (minimum 4 days per week)
Contract: 12 months fixed term contract
Salary: depending on experience
Location: Gas Ferry Road, Bristol, Hybrid working with a minimum 3 days in the office

Role: 

The Payroll Assistant role provides day-to-day administration, processing and bookkeeping support in order to maintain efficient running of the payroll within the Finance Department.

In this role you will be responsible for the end-to-end processing of one or more weekly payrolls assigned and not limited to:

• Preparing the weekly register of active contracts to be paid each week and ensuring receipt of appropriate new starter paperwork.
• Collating weekly timesheets and preparing the master schedule of payments
• Processing payments in Sage, and preparing a payroll for review
• All HMRC submissions relating to the payroll
• Preparing the invoice or journal for the relevant payroll for entry into the accounting system
• Maintaining Holiday, Sick, TOIL and pension records for the relevant weekly payroll.

In order to understand the entirety of the payroll system and processes you will need to be able to provide other support as needed, including but not limited to cross-checking the work of other team members, inputting timesheets for monthly staff and providing holiday and sickness cover.

We’re looking for candidates with at least two years’ experience in payroll and who have previous experience of running weekly payrolls.   

You will need strong organisational and administrative skills and the ability to juggle multiple tasks. Applicants will need an enthusiastic approach to problem solving and a high level of PC literacy and Excel experience is essential. Previous experience of Sage 50 payroll would be useful.

Please find a full role profile attached.

The closing date for applications is: 5pm on Friday 3^rd January 2025   

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