Payroll Administrator

Curtis Recruitment Limited; Reading; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A successful accountancy practice is seeking a Payroll Administrator to join their team in Reading, UK. The role involves processing payrolls, handling client queries, and maintaining accurate records. Ideal candidates will have payroll experience, strong IT skills, and excellent communication abilities. This position offers competitive pay and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Friendly working environment

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in a practice or payroll bureau environment is preferred.
• Understanding of statutory payroll requirements including PAYE & NI.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new systems.

Responsibilities

• Process weekly and monthly payrolls for clients.
• Handle payroll queries from clients and employees.
• Ensure payroll database is accurate and up-to-date.

Skills

Previous payroll experience

High levels of accuracy

Strong IT skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Education

CIPP qualification

Tools

IRIS Payroll Professional

Job description

Our client, a successful accountancy practice, is seeking a Payroll Administrator to join the team. This firm is continuing to enjoy steady growth and as such, another payroll professional is required to satisfy the demand.

The firm provides professional accountancy services to a range of clients, from SMEs to larger international companies, across a range of sectors.

This practice is a fantastic employer and will offer the Payroll Administrator a competitive salary with excellent benefits and a friendly, supportive working environment.

Within this role, the Payroll Administrator will be carrying out the following tasks:

• Processing weekly and monthly payrolls for a portfolio of clients, including all statutory calculations, RTI and year end
• Processing starters, leavers and other payroll entries
• Processing amendments to salaries and employee data
• Resolution of day‑to‑day queries and liaising with clients to request information to prepare their payroll
• Calculating and checking the clients payroll for approval
• Reconciling client payrolls ensuring all payrolls processed are accurate
• Providing approval reports to the clients
• Providing post payroll reporting to the client
• Processing auto‑enrolment opt‑in and opt‑out
• Dealing with clients and employees payroll queries
• Liaising with HMRC and dealing with queries
• Ensuring the payroll database is up‑to‑date and accurate
• Issuing P45s
• Ensuring all electronic filing is complete

To be considered for this position, applicants will satisfy to following:

• Previous payroll experience, preferably within a practice or payroll bureau environment
• CIPP qualification preferred but not essential
• An understanding of statutory payroll requirements i.e. SSP, SMP, SPP, PAYE & NI
• High levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• Strong IT skills, MS Office experience of IRIS Payroll Professional would be an advantage, training will be given
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Submit your CV for this Payroll Administrator role

Unfortunately, we cannot accept applications for this role from candidates that do not have the right to work in the UK, or require visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future. This includes those currently on a student or graduate visa.

Additionally, candidates must have experience gained within UK accountancy practice. We stipulate these criteria due to the high volume of applications from outside of the UK.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not always possible to respond to unsuccessful applicants. Therefore, if we have not responded to your application within five days please assume that on this occasion your application has not been successful.