Payroll Accountant

Vertex Associates - Accountancy and Finance Recruitment; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Payroll Accountant to join a global education trust. The role involves managing payrolls, ensuring compliance with UK legislation, and developing key relationships. Ideal candidates will have significant payroll experience and strong organizational skills.

Qualifications

• Experience managing multiple in-house payroll functions, UK and international.
• Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation.
• Ability to prioritize tasks under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Run payrolls across the Group accurately.
• Develop high-profile relationships with HMRC and internal teams.
• Ensure payroll processes are documented and validated for audits.

Skills

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Job description

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Senior Recruitment Consultant at Vertex Associates - Specialising in Accounting and Finance recruitment

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experience Payroll Accountant to join a global education trust.

You will be responsible for:

• Running a number of payrolls across the Group.
• Ensuring all Group payrolls are carried out accurately and in line with Group controls and guidelines
• Owning and developing a number of very high-profile relationships – both externally (including all HMRC correspondence in the UK, and third-party providers) and internally (senior HR and Finance colleagues along with direct handling of payroll issues and queries from workforce).
• Ensuring all payroll activity is accounted for correctly and that all payroll processes are regularly documented.
• Ensuring all deliverables are prepared and validated in time for Group audits.
• Inputing into the HR Services process documentation.
• Documenting details of workflows in various scenarios, information required, agreed timetables to ensure that all payroll information is accurate and provided in a timely manner.
• Interpreting business and HR agendas to develop, implement and lead the UK payroll strategy.

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Experience of managing multiple in-house payroll functions of a similar size and scale, Uk and international.
• Significant experience in UK payroll processing leading to an excellent and up to date understanding of UK payroll legislation.
• Ability to multitask and work to strict deadlines under pressure with a natural ability to prioritise.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to quickly spot and act on things that don’t look right.

Vertex Associates Limited acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions. Vertex Associates is committed to equal opportunity and diversity. Suitable candidates with equivalent qualifications and more or less experience can apply. Rates of pay and salary ranges are dependent upon your experience, qualifications and training. If you wish to apply, please read our Privacy Notice describing how we may process, disclose and store your personal data: vertexassociates.co.uk/privacy-policy/

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

• Industries

  Higher Education

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