Remote Payroll Assistant — End-to-End, 900+ Employees

Confidential; Southend-on-Sea; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential in Southend-on-Sea is seeking an experienced Payroll Assistant to support end-to-end processing across three payrolls for around 900 staff. The role blends remote working with occasional office visits and a February system migration from Sage 50 Payroll to IRIS.

You will handle starters, leavers, variations, overtime, stat pay, deductions, pensions, and year-end checks, while ensuring HMRC compliance and timely reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience processing high-volume payrolls.
• End-to-end payroll knowledge and accuracy.
• Experience with overtime, statutory payments and deductions.
• Pension schemes knowledge incl. auto-enrolment requirements.
• Confident handling payroll queries from employees and managers.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Assist with end-to-end processing of three payrolls for ~900 employees.
• Process starters, leavers, changes and contractual amendments.
• Calculate overtime, additional hours, sickness, statutory payments and deductions.
• Administer pension schemes, enrolments, opt-ins/outs, refunds as required.
• Process salary adjustments, retro payments and payroll corrections.
• Maintain payroll data accurately and update timely.
• Support Payroll Manager with checks, reconciliations and reporting.
• Liaise with employees and managers to resolve payroll queries.
• Assist with year-end procedures and statutory reporting.
• Support migration from Sage 50 to IRIS payroll system.

Skills

Payroll processing

High-volume payrolls

End-to-end payroll

Pension knowledge

Payroll queries handling

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Tools

Sage 50 Payroll

IRIS Payroll

Job description

Confidential in Southend-on-Sea is seeking an experienced Payroll Assistant to support end-to-end processing across three payrolls for around 900 staff. The role blends remote working with occasional office visits and a February system migration from Sage 50 Payroll to IRIS.

You will handle starters, leavers, variations, overtime, stat pay, deductions, pensions, and year-end checks, while ensuring HMRC compliance and timely reporting.