Overview
As an Associate at Azets, you will have the ability and motivation needed to:
- Understand and ensure the accurate and timely delivery of client payrolls to agreed deadlines
- Work within your own chargeable time budget
Client Details
Azets are a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, they have a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of their many offices!
They are a top ten accountancy firm in the UK and are the number one largest SME practice.
Description
As an Associate at Azets, you will have the ability and motivation needed to:
- Understand and ensure the accurate and timely delivery of client payrolls to agreed deadlines.
- Work within your own chargeable time budget.
Day to day duties:
- Input data for any of the payrolls when necessary, running Audit and validation checks for payroll as well as interfacing of data to General Ledger and Pensions systems.
- Monitor SSP, SMP and other statutory payments and calculations.
- Process accurate and timely year-end reporting when necessary.
- Manage any payroll changes to the time and attendance systems (BMS).
- Administer the end-to-end payroll process and auto enrolment compliance for a portfolio of clients.
- You will be on hand to answering any payroll related enquiries from clients and being a trusted advisor.
- Acting as first line support for pay queries.
- Peer checking of payrolls.
- Undertake general administrative duties and work collaboratively within the payroll hub.
- Develop relationships with clients, ensuring effective communication with the wider offices, HMRC and other third-party providers.
- Effectively communicating with team and wider payroll teams.
- Requirement to keep up to date with payroll legislation and industry changes though independent research.
Profile
- Previous payroll administration experience, minimum of one year service within a busy service driven environment (preferably within a bureau environment).
- End to end Payroll processing experience including pensions, benefits and statutory payments.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail across both manual and systems based work.
- A natural ability to coordinate, prioritise and multitask with little supervision.
- Strong customer focused approach, ability to handle customer queries by telephone and email.
- Be able to adapt to a highly changeable environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to work under pressure whilst meeting tight deadlines.
- Knowledge and understanding of payroll legislation, processing, and auto enrolment regulations.
- Must have the ability to manually calculate a payroll.
- Willing to study for a CIPP Foundation degree qualification.
Job Offer
Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more.
You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues: https://youtu.be/uOZ8_PkRyCE