Payroll Assistant

Sewell Wallis is delighted to be partnering with a well-established accountancy practice in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. As the business continues to grow, they are looking to recruit a driven and motivated individual to strengthen their payroll team.

The successful candidate will have solid payroll experience, including handling tax queries and pension calculations.

What will you be doing?

Processing 42 weekly payrolls and 93 monthly payrolls, with each payroll ranging from 1-40 employees.
Managing payrolls with both variable wages and fixed salary structures.
Ensuring payroll data is received from clients on time, proactively following up to obtain outstanding hours or required information.
Completing pension submissions where necessary, including separate submissions for relevant payrolls.
Calculating holiday pay.
Processing staff leavers.
Handling pay calculation queries.
Responding to tax code enquiries.
Registering new payroll schemes.
Managing pension-related queries.

What skills are we looking for?

Proven experience processing payrolls.
Strong knowledge of payroll legislation, including tax codes and statutory payments.
Experience managing pension submissions and auto-enrolment processes.
Ability to manage multiple payrolls with varying pay structures.
Confident handling payroll-related queries, including holiday pay, leavers, and pay discrepancies.
High level of numerical accuracy and strong attention to detail.
Excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks effectively.
Strong communication skills, comfortable liaising with clients by phone and email.
A proactive approach to following up on outstanding payroll information. Apply for this role below, or for more information, contact Lewis.

To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions.

We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions