Senior Associate, Payroll

Gravita Business Services Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Development opportunities

Flexible working

Job summary

Gravita is a fast-growing tech-enabled accounting firm recruiting for a Senior Associate in Payroll within the Outsourcing team. You will manage a diverse portfolio of high-volume payrolls, ensuring accurate calculations and timely payments while advising clients on payroll queries and HMRC submissions.

Join a busy, supportive environment with development opportunities and a clear progression path. The standard week is 37.5 hours on a hybrid basis with flexible working and strong emphasis on

Qualifications

• Full end-to-end payroll experience, including manual calculations and standard deductions.
• Proficiency in UK Payroll Legislation and Auto-Enrolment for pensions.
• Strong interpersonal skills for client and internal stakeholder communication.
• Experience maintaining client relationships and liaising with HMRC and third-party providers.
• Competence in Excel.
• Minimum 3-4 years of payroll bureau experience.

Responsibilities

• Support the busy payroll department.
• High volume payroll process on varying cycles for your own portfolio of clients in a fast-paced role.
• Provide comprehensive advice to clients in relation to payroll queries.
• Working to deadlines.
• Manual calculations.
• Ensuring all necessary payments are made within the deadlines set, for example Pension Contributions and employee payments.
• Pensions & HMRC Submissions.
• Shares knowledge and experience with junior team members, providing training and support when required.

Skills

End-to-end payroll

UK payroll legislation

Auto-Enrolment

Interpersonal skills

Client relationships

Excel

Payroll bureau experience

Job description

We’re Gravita: the accountants fuelling ambitious businesses. We’re a full service, tech-enabled firm, working with entrepreneurs and businesses to help them achieve their goals, and make an impact in the world.

We’re growing fast and are bringing like-minded advisors together to form a full-service tech-enabled accounting partner for thousands of SMEs. Our team use their incredible expertise alongside intuitive technology to help businesses and entrepreneurs plan better and grow faster.

Our mission is to become the UK’s leading tech-enabled accounting firm for SMEs. We have ambitious goals and our high-calibre team work hard to achieve them. We are one team with one agenda, working collaboratively in a respectful environment to deliver a great service to our clients. So if you join us, you’ll not only be working on exciting client challenges, you’ll also be helping us shape the future of accounting.

The Role

As a Senior AssociateinPayroll within our Outsourcing team, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting our dynamic payroll department. In this fast-paced position, you'll manage a diverse portfolio of clients, handling high-volume payroll processes on varying cycles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the busy payroll department.

• High volume payroll process on varying cycles for your own portfolio of clients in a fast-paced role

• Provide comprehensive advice to clients in relation to payroll queries.

• Working to deadlines

• Manual calculations

• Ensuring all necessary payments are made within the deadlines set, for example Pension Contributions and employee payments.

• Pensions & HMRC Submissions

• Shares knowledge and experience with junior team members, providing training and support when required.

Qualifications, Knowledge & Experience:

• Full end-to-end payroll experience, including manual calculations and standard deductions.

• Proficiency in UK Payroll Legislation and Auto-Enrolment for pensions.

• Strong interpersonal skills for client and internal stakeholder communication.

• Experience maintaining client relationships and liaising with HMRC and third-party providers.

• Competence in Excel.

• Minimum 3-4 years of payroll bureau experience.

Your Career with Gravita

When you join Gravita, we’ll support you on your own growth journey. We want to be the place you learn, grow and unlock your true potential.

We’ll work with you to build a progression plan to outline how you’ll grow at our company and everything we’ll do to help you get there. We’re also passionate about learning and development, to help you focus on your future.

The Key Details

• Our standard working week is a 37.5-hour week on a hybrid basis

• Core working hours are 10am - 4pm Monday to Friday

• Flexible working and happy employees are at the top of our list here at Gravita and we have been working hard to support our teams through the fast-paced changes.

• Your development won’t be forgotten, our development support is extraordinary for a firm of our size.

• It's a busy, fast-paced environment here at Gravita. Feel free to check out our social media channels (Instagram, X, LinkedIn and Glassdoor).