Payroll Administrator

To assist our Watford team in helping to grow the firm, the duties you will carry out are:

• Accepting responsibility for all weekly, monthly and quarterly payrolls, ensuring effective and efficient workflow. To include managing all aspects of client payrolls from start to finish: processing of starters and leavers, maintaining personal data, calculating statutory absence payments, processing termination payments and payments after leaving.
• Arranging BACs payroll payments, including salary payments, monthly tax liabilities and third-party payments where necessary.
• Ensuring all payroll reports are generated and filed electronically in PDF format on payroll client file.
• Processing payrolls in a manner that ensures client payrolls are compliant with statutory and professional regulations.
• Ensuring all day to day payroll tasks are completed in line with departmental payroll processing timetable.
• Dealing with ad hoc queries and tasks.

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

• Minimum of 2 years payroll experience.
• Previous experience of working in an accountancy practice, or to have worked in a payroll department dealing with a high-volume payroll.
• Good working knowledge of payroll systems (Star would be preferable).
• Customer service orientated.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to establish and maintain good working relationships.
• An IPP qualification would be advantageous, but is not mandatory.
• Experience of School payrolls would be an advantage.