Senior Payroll Assistant

Are you a self-motivated, hardworking, ambitious person looking for your next challenge? If you are, and you’re looking to join a national operation with international reach, then we have a great role for you, based at our London office near Tower Bridge as a Payroll Supervisor. You can join a talented group of individuals in our Payroll department who support our growing network of UHY firms across the UK.

The UHY Hacker Young Group is a Top 20 UK network of chartered accountants with 24 offices spanning England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also a founding member of UHY International, our Top 20 global network, which has over 340 offices in all major global business jurisdictions. We are a people-first business, and we recognise that you, and the rest of our team, are essential to deliver on our purpose of helping you prosper, whether you are a client, a member of our team, or part of our wider community.

We want you to be challenged, to learn and grow while you’re with us, to have fun in the workplace, work with like-minded individuals, and deliver great services.

Are you looking to join a team that:

• Believes in and delivers a culture of work-life balance, with a focus on wellbeing?
• Provides a clear career framework and routes to progress?
• Understands the importance of rewarding and retaining high calibre teams?
• Delivered 20% growth in the last 12 months?

Role overview

The firm is looking to recruit a Payroll Supervisor to join the London office. Forming part of a department of seven, the successful candidate will be responsible for weekly and monthly payrolls for a variety of UHY Hacker Young clients and overseeing the work of a junior team member.

Duties will include:

• Processing payrolls from beginning to end in accordance with current legislation, policies and processes, and timelines, while ensuring that all payroll transactions are approved by an appropriately authorised person.
• Processing leavers, calculating holiday payments, PILON and other associated termination payments.
• Calculation of absence including sickness, leave and statutory payments.
• Processing other payments/deductions, including Auto-enrolment, court orders and contractual payments, ensuring that audit and statutory requirements are met.
• Inputting changes to employee personal details, e.g., bank account and address details.
• Inputting statutory changes, P45, P46, P6, and P9, student loan notices and court orders.
• Maintaining confidentiality and ensuring sensitive files are protected appropriately.
• Making ad-hoc payroll payments on occasion and supporting the team in responding to questions.
• Maintaining up-to-date knowledge of payroll legislation and internal policies.
• Ensuring all payroll deadlines are met and quality levels are maintained.
• Ensuring all payrolls under your responsibility are processed and paid on time, and ensuring pensions, PAYE/NI, are paid on time.
• Ensuring information, policy & procedures and employee files are kept current and accurate.
• Supporting on a range of payroll projects.
• Assisting with monitoring the payroll inbox and dealing with queries in a timely manner.
• Performing any other tasks associated with payroll to complete payrolls within agreed deadlines.

Working arrangements

The working week: 35 hours per week (Monday-Friday) to be worked from 09:30-17:30 with flexibility of hours to meet specific work demands. Location: Your principal work base is our London Office; however, we do accommodate working from home once past the 3-month probation period and have a flexi-time scheme in place which will allow some movement around these hours.

At UHY, it’s all about you – our benefits:

• Study package, including TOIL (Time off in Lieu).
• 28 days holiday (including bank holidays).
• Discretionary Christmas shutdown not counted as part of holiday entitlement.
• The ability to ‘purchase’ extra days leave in salary sacrifice.
• Private medical insurance at discounted rates.
• Private medical insurance (Assistant manager and above).
• Subsidised corporate gym membership at Fitness First.
• Life assurance (4x salary).
• Season ticket loan (for travel).
• Enhanced maternity & paternity pay.
• Pension scheme arrangements.
• Employee discount platform – UHY Plus.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Electric car scheme (coming soon).

Person specifications – Desirable experience and skills:

• Preferred experience working in a payroll bureau.
• Proven payroll knowledge.
• Knowledge of UK manual tax and national insurance calculations.
• A confident user of Excel and Word.
• Good communication skills, both verbally and written, and the ability to work independently or as a member of a team.
• Invested in promoting a customer care/service-based approach and operate with discretion.
• The ability to be proactive, flexible, and adaptable while problem-solving when required.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced, growing environment.

Our core values and behaviours run through everything we do and support our purpose of helping you prosper. They set the tone for our team to work by, and we are looking for people who value the same things as us: living empathy, making progress, being present and enjoying it!