Payroll Executive in York

Location: York

Salary: Hidden

Recruiter: Azets

Job Hours: Full-time

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Ready to return to work and redefine your career aspirations whilst leaving room for flexibility?; Want to be supported by a learning and development team as you grow?; Interested in working with an industry varied client base across the SME market?

Who are Azets

Azets are a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, we have over a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of our many offices!

We are a top ten accountancy firm in the UK and are the number one largest SME practice.

The opportunity

As an Executive at Azets, you will have the ability and motivation needed to:

Begin to take ownership of your own portfolio with support from your manager

Support in delivering revenue and profitability targets

Begin to develop enduring client relationships

Day to day duties

Manage the end-to-end payroll process and auto enrolment compliance for a portfolio of clients

Deal with all associated payroll processing tasks required for processing to completion of the payroll process

Manage client expectations

Develop relationships with your clients also ensuring effective communication with the wider offices, HMRC and other third-party providers

Working as part of the wider team to review work produced by more junior team members and support the Payroll Manager

Leading by example in regards to attitude and processing of payrolls, so others in the team will follow suit

Being the first point of contact to the team to assist and support the team in responding to queries from clients, HMRC, 3rd party providers etc.

Support in regards to legislation and system queries

Completing regular training for the wider team, which could range from information about legislation to systems

Peer checking of payrolls

Streamlining any current processes within the team/ Updating and maintaining payroll records/files

Any ad-hoc duties or projects that may be necessary

Producing and developing ad hoc financial and operational reporting as needed

What are we looking for?

Over two years’ experience in payroll with experience using STAR (experience in a bureau environment would be highly desirable)

End to end Payroll processing experience including pensions, benefits and statutory payments

Must have the ability to manually calculate a payroll 

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

In depth knowledge and understanding of payroll legislation, processing, and auto enrolment regulations

Effective client management experience and steps towards staff management

Mentorship and coaching experience to support other team members to ensure they perform work duties

Ideally with a CIPP Foundation degree qualification or working towards this qualification

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more. You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues -

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Our 8,000 smart talented colleagues support over 93,000 clients through our network of 187 European offices in the Nordics, UK, and Ireland.

Our purpose is to improve the lives of our colleagues, clients and communities, in a sustainable way. This is our driving force.

We are a top ten Firm across Northern Europe and through our investment in value generating technology, we deliver trusted advice and business insights to ambitious growing and established businesses, business owners and entrepreneurs to save them time to focus on achieving their business and personal ambitions.

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