Payroll & Accounts Administrator – Construction

KD Group (Engineering Contractors); Connacht; On-site; EUR 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

KD Group is an Irish mechanical engineering contractor headquartered in Castlebar, Mayo. The Office & Accounts Administrator supports payroll, accounts payable, and general administration within a busy construction and engineering environment.

The role involves weekly payroll processing, supplier invoice handling, and maintaining confidential employee records while assisting with recruitment, onboarding, and financial controls across management and finance teams.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 1–2 years’ experience in a payroll, accounts payable, finance administration, or similar office-based role.
• Payroll processing experience is essential, ideally within an Irish payroll environment.
• Accounts payable, invoice processing, purchase order matching, or supplier reconciliation experience is highly desirable.
• Good working knowledge of Irish payroll procedures, Revenue requirements, employee records, and confidentiality requirements.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage deadlines, prioritise workload, and follow tasks through to completion.

Responsibilities

• Process weekly payroll accurately and within agreed deadlines, ensuring all hours, overtime, holidays, deductions, pensions, and statutory payments are correctly recorded.
• Maintain payroll records for starters, leavers, amendments, holiday pay, sick pay, pensions, deductions, and other payroll-related changes.
• Ensure payroll administration is completed in line with Revenue requirements, Irish payroll legislation, company procedures, and internal approval processes.
• Respond to employee payroll queries in a professional, confidential, and timely manner.
• Provide professional administrative support to management, finance, and operational departments as required.
• Assist with internal reporting, data entry, document control, filing, correspondence, and maintaining accurate business records.
• Support continuous improvement of administration processes, templates, records, and internal workflows.
• Carry out other ad-hoc duties as required to support the wider business.

Skills

Payroll processing

Accounts payable

Finance administration

Irish payroll

Data entry

Confidentiality

Microsoft Office

Excel

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

Job description

KD Group is an Irish mechanical engineering contractor headquartered in Castlebar, Mayo. The Office & Accounts Administrator supports payroll, accounts payable, and general administration within a busy construction and engineering environment.

The role involves weekly payroll processing, supplier invoice handling, and maintaining confidential employee records while assisting with recruitment, onboarding, and financial controls across management and finance teams.