Payroll Specialist

Location
- **Stirling**
- Contract Type
- **Full Time**

**What's the Role?**

We are currently recruiting for an experienced full-time **Payroll Specialist** to support the work of the Outsourcing Team. This position offers hybrid working. Part-time hours could be considered.

This is a great opportunity for an ambitious, experienced payroll specialist to continue building their career and client relationships.

They will also provide support, training and guidance to other team members as and when required, to help build and improve upon the existing knowledge base within the firm.

**What you will need to be**:

- Authentic in every situation and like to be connected to your team, clients and local communities
- Like to listen and understand, to show up every day with passion and to stand up for things that matter to you
- Be driven to succeed, take initiative and want results

**What else are we looking for?**

Duties would include:

- Maintaining control of job tracking system to ensure the department deadlines in the period are met.
- Assisting colleagues with any payroll queries.
- Managing own portfolio of clients, processing weekly, fortnightly, 4-weekly, monthly and annual payroll runs on the payroll system, following the processes in place from data input, reviewing, reporting and delivering to client. Ensuring client service standards are met.
- Submission of Telepay wages and online banking. Ensuring these are processed in a timely manner for pay day.
- Submission of CIS returns and issuing remittance.
- Processing weekly, 4-weekly and monthly pension uploads to various pension providers.
- Experience of Iris Payroll Professional (Star Payroll), Earnie and Xero is advantageous, but not an essential requirement.
- Assisting clients who process their own payroll with their day to day queries. Experience of other payroll software can assist, i.e. XERO payroll, Sage50 Payroll, Sage One Payroll and Basic Tools etc. Training clients on their use of payroll software may also be required.
- Raising and authorising fees on completion of work.
- Responding and resolving queries from clients and colleagues relating to payroll.
- Keeping up to date with technical and legislative developments in payroll or impacting payroll and cascade this throughout the payroll team and wider business.
- Identifying areas for improvement and implementing new procedures to ensure continuous improvement within the department.
- Maintaining TPR - The Pensions Regulator compliance, processing triennial submissions on behalf of our clients.

**The Haines Watts Way**
- Our collective aspirations are simple:

- We strive to build and develop valued relationships as a trusted business advisor to our clients and connections.
- We strive to show passion for our work in helping clients achieve their goals and using our initiative to help solve problems.
- But above all, we strive to be authentic and inclusive as part of our DNA.

**What you get back from us**:

- Flexible working
- Competitive salary
- Excellent personal development programmes to support career growth opportunities
- Structured development as well as on the job practical training
- Flexible benefits reward package
- Cloud-based systems
- Ability to progress all the way to the top

If you are an authentic, passionate Payroll Specialist who values relationships and wants to secure a role within a unique top 15 accountancy firm who offer great career prospects; we want to hear from you.

**Who We Are**

**It starts with you**

Some people think being an accountant is all about numbers. Here at Haines Watts we don’t We believe it’s all about our people and the relationships they forge as well as the specialist insight that they might build over time. We’ve been around for 90 years, so we must know a thing or two.

Our clients come from all walks of life. They have different backgrounds, experiences, talents, skills and goals. Just like our people.

**So, we have a question for you**: are you looking for a job that’s just about the numbers? Or do you want a career which leans into who you are as a person. You will build a common foundation with your colleagues whilst progressing from Trainee to Manager, but from there, with our in-house programmes to help you, we actively encourage you to discover who you are as a person.

Is your preference to become a foremost authority in an accountancy specialism or someone who is energised by relationships with clients and teams? We value either career path equally, but we know that you will value one more than the other and we will support you on that journey of discovery.

You can find out more about us and our story **here**.

**Our Benefits**

**Flexible Working**

**Training and Development**

**Health & Wellbeing**

**Pension**

**Private Healthcare**

**Employee & Client Referral Schemes**

**Enhanced Family Leave**

**Haines Watts Rewards Scheme**

**Meet Some of Our People**

**Sara Andrews - Tax Partner - Newcas