Payroll Clerk

Sewell Wallis are currently working with a well-established practice within the Bradford area who are looking to appoint a Payroll Clerk on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will join a friendly and experienced team where you will be able to make a real difference rather than be treated as a number.

Reporting to the Practice Manager, the Payroll Clerk will be responsible for all employee lifecycle payroll activities across the company's group payrolls. Working closely with the Practice Manager ensuring that the payrolls are flawlessly executed on time every time.

The main duties of the role will involve having full accountability for all payroll administration, ensuring legislation is adhered to and that employees are paid in an accurate and timely manner.

What will you be doing?

• Providing payroll related support to all customers within the business and wider team ensuring a customer centric approach in all communications and resolutions.
• Preparing accurate monthly payrolls ready for sign off by relevant Finance teams, adhering to strict deadlines for more than one pay date.

• Managing and maintaining data and processing relating to group payrolls, taking responsibility and ensuring accuracy and quality of data processing.
• Liaising with the team to ensure all data including new starters, leavers and contractual changes are processed in line with payroll cut off dates.
• Assisting with internal and external audits managing and resolving queries regarding payroll data, processes and controls.
• Raising monthly, annual and ad-hoc payments as required.

What skills are we looking for?

• Have had experience in a similar payroll role.
• Excel knowledge including VLOOKUP, SUMIF's and Pivot tables preferred
• Have excellent attention to detail and will be able to work towards multiple deadlines.
• Be an excellent communicator and have strong written and spoken communication skills.
• Have strong IT skills and will have excellent problem solving skills with the ability to resolve complex financial issues.

What's on offer?

• Join a new team within an established business.
• Located near great transport links.

For more information, please contact Suliman.

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.