Payroll Assistant — Education & Social Care

Confidential; Essex; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential, a fast-paced recruitment company specialising in education, tutoring and social work, is seeking an organised Payroll Assistant to join our busy payroll team. You will support weekly and monthly payroll for a large number of temporary workers, ensuring hours, timesheets and bookings are accurately recorded and processed to deadlines.

You should have payroll experience or be keen to develop, with strong Excel and data-entry skills.

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll or payroll administration.
• Comfort working with large volumes of data.
• Ability to work to deadlines and maintain accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Support weekly and monthly payroll processing.
• Set up new workers and bookings; check timesheets.
• Process leavers and finishers; maintain records.
• Produce payroll reports and assist with reconciliations.
• Respond to queries from workers and clients in a timely manner.

Skills

Payroll experience

Excel

Data entry

Attention to detail

Organised

Communication

Tools

Merit Payroll Software

Job description

Confidential, a fast-paced recruitment company specialising in education, tutoring and social work, is seeking an organised Payroll Assistant to join our busy payroll team. You will support weekly and monthly payroll for a large number of temporary workers, ensuring hours, timesheets and bookings are accurately recorded and processed to deadlines.

You should have payroll experience or be keen to develop, with strong Excel and data-entry skills.