Payroll Administrator/Bookkeeper – Bury

£24,000 to £28,000

Opportunity for an experienced Payroll Administrator/Bookkeeper to join a firm of Chartered Accountants based in Bury on a full-time, permanent basis. 

Reporting to the Practice Manager, you will have full responsibility for the processing of client’s payrolls on a weekly, fortnightly and monthly basis. This is a full start to finish processing position for approximately 50 clients, with 1 – 80 employees on each payroll. 

Responsibilities:

• Full start to finish payroll processing
• Autoenrollment and pension assessment for multiple providers
• Processing CIS wages and RTI submissions
• Managing complex client queries in relation to pay
• Submission of BACs payments for clients 
• Maintaining accurate payroll records
• Reporting, analysis and creation of payroll journals
• Purchase Ledger – match, batch and coding invoices
• Sales Ledger maintenance
• Posting journals
• Bank reconciliations

Requirements:

• Previous experience within a similar position
• Ability to process payroll from start to finish
• Excellent knowledge of payroll legislation 
• Ability to manually calculate payslips
• Bookkeeping experience – preparing accounts to trial balance
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work in a standalone position with minimal supervisor
• Good knowledge of MS Excel
• Experience using Sage is beneficial