Apprentice Payroll Assistant

**_Job Information_**
- Location: Mansfield
- Postcode: NG18 5BY
- Programme: Payroll Administrator L3
- Salary: £12,000 - £14,000

**Brief overview of role**

Are you looking to kickstart your finance career working in payroll for a business that cares about it’s employees progression? Do you possess a flair for mathematics and keen eye for detail? If this is you read on as LivePay a payroll services business based in Mansfield Nottinghamshire Derby is looking for a payroll apprentice to join their growing team

**Duties and Responsibilities**

The vacancy is for an apprentice payroll assistant who will be part of our bureau team. We have three main parts to the business, projects, support and bureau. The payroll administrator role is the main entry point to the business where experience is built with the eventual possibility progressing within the bureau team or graduating into one of the other more specialist teams.

**Training**

The Payroll Administrator standard is delivered in two elements; the CIPP (Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals) knowledge units and work based projects designed by the provider, to meet employer needs.

The knowledge units outlined below are delivered via the CIPP online learning platform:

- National Insurance
- PAYE
- Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)
- Statutory Parental Leave
- Statutory Deductions

You will complete a knowledge check at the end of each unit, which will test your skills.

The projects issued by the provider are as follows:

- Business and Customer Awareness
- Payroll (Core)
- Payroll (Pensions for payroll)
- Payroll (Technical)
- Regulation and Compliance
- Systems and Processes

The last three months of the qualification will entail completing the following as part of the EndPoint Assessment:

- Multiple-Choice
- Role Simulation
- Professional Discussion

**Career Progression**
- The opportunity to progress into a full-time payroll role upon completion of the apprenticeship
- The potential to progress onto a degree in payroll and/or finance upon completion of level 3

**Skills and Personal Qualities**
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisational skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team Working
- Creative
- Initiative
- Non-judgemental
- Patience

**Things to Consider**
- FREE Onsite car parking
- Small close-knit team with a fantastic working environment
- A business with a proven track record of evolving individuals and supporting apprentices
- A business which provides external payroll support in the form of a business coach and mentor

**EMAzing Rewards**

**_At EMA we value our Apprentices highly, hence why we have created a reward and recognition platform especially for them_**

**_The platform is called EMAzing and it is designed to recognise hard work and reward in the process. It is that unbelievable, we will even go as far as saying that no one else in this industry offers anything quite like this._**

**_It offers: Discounts at thousands of shops, FREE birthday gift, FREE weekly Caffe Nero drink or Gregg’s sausage roll, FREE monthly Rakuten film stream, FREE learning and development tools and so much more _**

**_As well as: A recognition area with e-cards to applaud good work, celebrate milestones & appreciate peers, EMA podcast series, monthly awards and EMA Alumni._**

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent, Apprenticeship

**Salary**: £12,000.00-£14,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Store discount
- Wellness programme

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- No weekends

Application question(s):

- Do you have 5 GCSEs C/4 or above or equivalent i.e. functional skills?
- How will you travel to work daily?