Trainee Payroll Assistant

With a heritage spanning over 100 years, Nicholsons is a well-respected accountancy and business advisory firm with three offices located in Lincolnshire. We continue to remain a market leader and believe this is achieved through our people. Our company values are to offer professional, personal, proactive business advisory services and we are committed to delivering an excellent service, which we achieve by hiring engaging, conscientious, and trustworthy employees. We are proud to promote organic growth, learning, development, and community initiatives. Our people are a priority - we reward our colleagues with a competitive salary (please indicate the salary level you are looking for in a covering letter), positive working environment, plenty of room to grow and an enhanced benefits package. The Trainee Payroll Assistant reports to the Payroll Manager. You will be responsible for overseeing and processing all payment frequency payrolls with the team to the greatest level of accuracy for our clients. Alongside this you will proactively identify areas for process improvements across the department. Based from our Lincoln office with some remote working possible, you will find yourself responsible for: - Full end processing of client payrolls on a weekly, fortnightly, and monthly basis; - Calculating HMRC and pension deductions; - Submitting RTI; - Handling employee and contractor queries; - Processing starters and leavers for clients; - 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; - Supporting any audits; - P11d and P46 administration and reporting; - Processing and administration of payrolled benefits; - Complete reconciliations; - Processing holiday pay requests and expenses; and - Assist with ad-hoc payroll projects as required. What we need from you: - Organised and able to prioritise own workload; - Able to work in a paperless environment; - Excellent attention to detail; and - Professional written and spoken manner. What we would like from you: - Familiarity with payroll software/ HRIS (e.g. Employment Hero, SAGE) and MS Office (especially Excel); - Experience of outsourced payroll, supporting a variety of clients and industries; andIn return, you can expect from us: - Flexitime between the hours of 7.00am and 7.00pm (core business hours are 9.30am to 2.30pm) with the consideration of partial home-working; - Free Parking; - Free Fruit (when in the office); - Annual party, team-building events, social activities all expensed by the firm; - Community initiatives; - Career development opportunities; - "Dress down days" in aid of our nominated charity; - Bike 2 Work scheme; - Private Medical Cover (after passing probation); - Private Health Insurance (after passing probation); and - Death in Service Benefits (after passing probation) If this sounds like you, please click the "Apply" button. If this role does not quite match what you are looking for, but you would like to know more about joining Nicholsons, please get in touch. We would love to hear from you Communication is at the heart of what we do, and if you are successful in being invited to interview, but unsuccessful in the process overall, we will give you feedback if you ask us to. The closing date for the position is 26 February 2025 but we do reserve the right to shorten this timescale should we feel we need to. Nicholsons is committed to equal opportunity for all. For further information on any data held please refer to our Privacy Notice which is published on our website.