Accounting and Finance Lead

4 days ago


Hailsham, East Sussex, United Kingdom First Recruitment Services Full time

**Job Overview:**

We are recruiting for a highly skilled Accounting and Finance Lead to join our team at First Recruitment Services. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing payroll operations, including data entry, reconciliation, and reporting.

**Key Responsibilities:**

  • Liaising with clients and entering payroll data from start to finish
  • Reconciling payroll to client data, getting client approval as appropriate and issuing payroll reports & payslips
  • Reviewing team members work
  • Preparing payroll journals
  • Reconciling weekly and monthly figures
  • Preparing BACS files
  • Administering Pension Auto–enrolment including making appropriate declarations to The Pensions Regulator
  • Producing and distributing pension scheme returns
  • Dealing effectively with queries from clients, and HMRC and other parts of the business
  • Assisting with on–boarding new clients.

**Requirements:**

  • Payroll bureau experience
  • Able to calculate tax, NI, pensions, etc. manually
  • Good working knowledge of statutory family leave, SSP, salary sacrifice, pensions, etc.
  • Excellent communication skills – verbal and written
  • Flexibility (busy periods will require working longer hours to meet payroll deadlines)
  • MS office (intermediate Excel)
  • Experience at team leader / supervisor level

**Estimated Salary:** £25,000 - £30,000 per annum



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