Payroll Assistant

Our client is looking for a motivated payroll admin/assistant to join their team on a permanent basis to continue developing their career within a fast-paced payroll environment.

• Working hands on processing
• a payroll of 8,500 employees on a monthly basis
• Manage up to 90 payrolls each week as part of a multi-sited business
• Tracking, processing, and amending holiday pay, Statutory Sickness Pay and other forms of leave such as maternity/paternity pay, etc
• Regularly review end to end controls, routines, and duty segregations
• Attending to telephone payroll queries
• Assist Payroll Manager in improving policies and procedures, to improve efficiency in the day to day running of the department
• Take telephone messages
• Assist the Payroll Managers with ad hoc tasks as required

• Minimum of 2 years proven experience within a similar role, preferably within a similar high volume payroll environment.
• Experience using Sage Payroll 50
• Previous experience with end of year updates submission via HMRC PAYE tools (desirable)
• Excellent Excel skills

• A natural team player with the ability to work in a team environment as well as being a self-starter with the ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to cope in a fast-paced environment, manage high volume workloads and deliver work to agreed timescales
• Flexible with the need to meet tight deadlines

• A supportive, friendly, and experienced payroll team that values teamwork and professional growth.
• Opportunities for ongoing training and development.
• A workplace culture built on respect, flexibility, team work and career development.

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The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.