Payroll Executive

RSM UK Group LLP.

Brentwood

Hybrid

GBP 40,000 - 52,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working
26 days holiday
Wellbeing benefits
Access to courses on demand

Job summary

RSM UK in Brentwood is seeking a Senior Payroll Executive to support the team and clients, ensuring accurate end-to-end payroll processing and efficient service delivery. You will manage your own client portfolio and help develop junior colleagues.

This role requires extensive payroll knowledge and strong communication, with a focus on confidentiality and collaboration within a large audit, tax and consulting network. Hybrid working and a supportive environment are offered.

Qualifications

  • Extensive payroll knowledge.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills at all levels.
  • Discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
  • Flexibility, adaptability, and problem-solving abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Managing your own client portfolio, which may include larger and more complex payrolls, while completing end-to-end payroll processing.
  • Reviewing payrolls processed by team members while assisting with their training and development.
  • Service multiple clients with the focus on support of the team and the Team Leader, to deliver excellent service to our clients.
  • Ensuring procedures and key control documents are kept up to date for auditing purposes. Supporting and covering for the Team Leader when they are unavailable.
  • Contribute to your team's growth by actively seeking new opportunities with your client base including HR services, People Manager and Hot Topic Items.
  • Ensuring you have up to date knowledge of statutory and legislative regulations by attending in-house training courses.

Skills

Payroll knowledge
Interpersonal skills
Discretion
Independent worker
Team player
Problem solving

Job description

As a Senior Payroll Executive in our Brentwood office, you will support the team and clients to ensure operational efficiency and profitability. You will manage your own client portfolio, handling escalated technical and commercial queries from junior members of the team. You'll make an impact by:

  • Managing your own client portfolio, which may include larger and more complex payrolls, while completing end-to-end payroll processing.
  • Reviewing payrolls processed by team members while assisting with their training and development.
  • Service multiple clients with the focus on support of the team and the Team Leader, to deliver excellent service to our clients.
  • Ensuring procedures and key control documents are kept up to date for auditing purposes. Supporting and covering for the Team Leader when they are unavailable.
  • Contribute to your team's growth by actively seeking new opportunities with your client base including HR services, People Manager and Hot Topic Items.
  • Ensuring you have up to date knowledge of statutory and legislative regulations by attending in-house training courses. Are you someone who thrives on variety, loves learning new things, and enjoys connecting with people? If you can spot inefficiencies in everyday life and are passionate about making improvements, this role is perfect for you!

We value diverse experiences and perspectives.

Here’s what we’re looking for in our ideal candidate:
  • Extensive payroll knowledge.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal with individuals at all levels to ensure excellent customer service.
  • Discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality.
  • Ability to work independently and as part of a collaborative team.
  • Flexibility, adaptability, and problem-solving abilities.

As one of the world's largest networks of audit, tax and consulting firms, RSM delivers big ideas and premium service to help middle-market businesses thrive. We are a fast-growing firm with big ambitions - we have a clear goal to become the premium adviser to the middle market, globally. This vision touches everything we do, motivating and inspiring us to become better every day. If you are looking for a firm where you can build a future and make an impact, then RSM is the place for you.

Make an Impact at RSM UK RSM's people advisory services team help organisations enact their people and talent strategies as well as manage their people challenges using a multi-disciplinary approach in the UK and globally. The team combines RSM's experts across employment tax, employment legal, payroll, HR, equity reward and global mobility. This alliance of specialists brings clients a unified and seamless service and allows you to be part of a collaborative and cohesive service line striving for excellence, innovation and common goals.

Diversity and Inclusion at RSM At RSM, we want to create a strong sense of belonging so that people of all identities, backgrounds, and cultures feel they can bring their true self to work. Our clients come from all walks of life. We aim to achieve that same diversity of background, experience and perspective in our own teams, so that we can genuinely understand our client's needs. Diverse teams bring a broader range of ideas and insights to work. That's why we're working together to ensure our firm's principles and processes support a firm culture that embraces difference and strengthens inclusion. At RSM we work hard to create an environment where our people can make a difference - to themselves, their career, their teams, and to the success of our firm and clients. We support all our people to work flexibly, to manage their family and other responsibilities alongside their work commitments; we believe this is key to achieving an inspiring and fulfilling working environment.

What we can offer you:

We recognise that our people are our most important assets. That's why we offer a flexible reward and benefits package that will help you have fulfilling experience, both in and out of work.

  • Hybrid and flexible working.
  • 26 days holiday (with the option of purchasing additional days).
  • Lifestyle, health, and wellbeing including financial wellbeing benefits such as financial tools, electric car scheme and access to a virtual GP.
  • Access to a suite of 300+ courses on demand developed by our inhouse talent development team.
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