Accounts and Payroll Clerk

Role Overview
This position is focused on managing the weekly payroll cycle for a large, varied workforce. Staff numbers fluctuate throughout the year, typically ranging between 200-250 employees, with a significant portion provided through agency partners.
Key Responsibilities
The successful candidate will take full ownership of the end to end weekly payroll process, including:

• Retrieving weekly attendance data from the time and attendance system and reconciling it against supervisory shift records.
• Investigating any discrepancies in attendance or absence, escalating queries to supervisors where required.
• Finalising and submitting agency worker timesheets every Monday morning.
• Uploading corrected payroll data into the payroll software.
• Applying bonuses, overtime, holiday pay, and sickness payments before payroll approval.
• Preparing payroll for submission to the banking system for final sign off.
• Maintaining an up to date employee status tracker in Excel to support financial reporting.
• Producing occasional reports for senior finance and leadership teams.
• Providing administrative support to HR, including filing, headcount reporting, gender pay reporting and similar tasks.

• Time & Attendance / Biometric software
• Payroll software (Sage or similar)
• Microsoft Excel

• High level of accuracy and strong attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and manage deadlines
• Professional communication skills
• Confidence liaising with managers across different departments
• Resilience and a proactive approach