Parkside Recruitment are currently partnering with a rapidly growing Accountancy Firm for the appointment of a Payroll Supervisor.

You will ideally have 3 years experience in a payroll position and be eager to progress your career into a fast paced role.

Responsibilities:

• Working alongside the Payroll Manager to help supervise the team.
• Reviewing and processing fortnightly, monthly & quarterly client payroll for various sized clients in a diverse range of industries.
• Act as a technical lead and escalation point within the team for any unusual queries or issues. Awareness to know when a question should be referred to the partner or a specialist.
• Ability to fully cover payroll manager as necessary and act self sufficiently in managing the team and client delivery.
• Be proactive in improving procedures and making the team as efficient as possible, always looking to raise the quality of the service delivered to clients.
• Ensure clients are compliant with auto enrolment pension requirements and able to answer pension related questions from both the team and clients.
• Support Payroll Manager in quoting for new work and meeting new clients, taking the lead in setting up all aspects of a new payroll.

Experience:

• 3-5 years' experience within a similar role
• Experience and working knowledge of using payroll software, IRIS experience desirable
• Understanding of how to manually calculate tax and NI and the impact of different tax codes
• Understanding of statutory payments and how these are processed through payroll
• Understanding of salary sacrifice payments
• Experience of Auto Enrolment and employer's obligations
• Experience setting up new PAYE schemes with HMRC

Skills:

• Attention to detail
• Organised with the ability to meet strict deadlines
• Experience of supervising or managing a payroll team
• Excellent technical knowledge (for example in relation to pensions, tax codes, PAYE, redundancies)
• Ability to problem solve and seek resolutions
• Ability to take responsibility and ownership for own work as well as wider team
• Good use of initiative

Location:
Hertfordshire

Salary:
£37,000

Permanent / Full Time

Parkside Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Parkside Recruitment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.