Payroll Assistant

Elsby & Co is a growing regional firm of Chartered Accountants. We believe that by recruiting great people, we can deliver a superior service to our clients whilst providing an enjoyable work environment. We offer excellent career development opportunities along with a highly competitive remuneration package, including an excellent profit-sharing bonus scheme. We also value your work life balance and offer flexible and hybrid working options where applicable.

**Position**:
**Compensation**

Salary dependent on experience

Assistant level £20k-£29k

Full and Part-time options considered

Profit-sharing bonus scheme

Comprehensive employee benefits package

Elsby & Co has an opportunity for a motivated and talented individual who is looking to further their professional career in Payroll. As a Payroll Assistant who is ready for progression, you will be working from one of our Rushden offices.

You will be responsible for processing weekly, bi-weekly, four-weekly, and monthly payroll, calculating HMRC and pension deductions, submitting RTI with the team to the greatest level of accuracy for our clients and handling employee and contractor queries.

Main responsibilities for the role will be:

- Full payroll process from start to finish
- Processing starters and leavers for clients
- Setting up pension schemes
- Liaising with HMRC
- Data inputting
- Managing client queries
- Timesheet reviews
- Ad-hoc admin support to the payroll function
- Ensuring all payrolls are completed accurately and on time
- Ensuring that all relevant outputs and reports are produced accurately
- Processing holiday pay requests and expenses
- Assist with ad hoc payroll projects as required.

**Requirements**:
Skills & attributes required:

- Experience of working within a payroll department for an Accountancy Practice essential
- Experience in CIS
- Experience working with multiple clients and handling complex client payrolls
- Experience dealing with SSP, SMP, SPP and auto enrolment
- Organised and able to prioritise own workload
- Able to work in a paperless environment
- Excellent attention to detail; and professional written & spoken manner
- Experience with SAGE Payroll

**Other information**:
We have been successful due to our commitment to high quality customer service, and to actually helping our customers, which is an attitude which brings high levels of job satisfaction and the feeling of ‘making a contribution’. Because of our success, there is always room for progression and development, as the business is constantly evolving. We’re open to fresh thoughts and ideas and love enthusiastic people who want to do their best for clients and fellow team members. All of this has generated a collaborative, vibrant work environment where office politics is strictly prohibited

If you think you would thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you

**Want to find out what it is really like to work for us?**

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