Payroll Advisor

St Albans, England, United Kingdom

12/11/2024

Department: Payroll

Location: St Albans

Compensation: £32,000 - £34,000 / year

Description

Moore Kingston Smith has been helping clients build their businesses for more than 90 years. As chartered accountants and business advisers, we work with clients to understand their potential and ambitions, and provide all the information and support they need to achieve them.

Moore Kingston Smith St Albans office is a Hospitality Centre of Excellence. Our client base is made up of a range of SMEs and includes manufacturers, a wide range of professional service firms, IT developers, but the fast majority of our clients run businesses within the hospitality sector. Due to continued growth in the last 2 years we are looking for a full time Payroll Advisor to join our hospitality payroll team.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be a positive, organised and detail-oriented person who manages their time effectively and has excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Strong IT skills & some basic payroll experience are required; however all in-house systems training will be provided. You will be in direct contact with clients face-to-face, over the phone/video meetings and via email, therefore excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.

Sustainable Success

• Accurate data entry into Payroll database of sensitive and confidential client information in a timely manner in order to process payroll efficiently


• Maintain master payroll records for Real Time Information purpose


• Deal with client enquiries in relation to payroll, benefits and expenses


• Upload pension files to the relevant providers


• Comple payroll journals


• Conduct general database maintenance


• Processing payrolls from start to finish


• Making employee payments via BACS


• Checking payroll deductions


• Process auto enrolment, student loan deductions and maternity pay calculations


• Issuing P45s and P60s


• Complete and submission of year-end payroll returns


• Set up of new employees


• Liaise with clients

People First

• Build and maintain good working relationships with internal and external clients.


• Act as a mentor/buddy for any new members of the team and/or payroll apprentices, fostering a culture of learning and growth.

Clients at Our Core

• Communicate effectively with clients, addressing any queries in a timely manner.


• Regularly gather and act on client feedback to improve the payroll service, ensuring that our clients are always at the core of our operations.

One Firm Philosophy

• Liaise with HMRC and our software provider to resolve issues, embodying our one firm philosophy through strong partnerships.


• Foster strong relationships with external partners like HMRC and software providers, ensuring seamless operations and problem resolution.

Intelligent Innovation

• Serve as a technical advisor within payroll, keeping up to date with changes in legislation to ensure compliance and inform strategy.


• Assist with the implementation of new payroll technologies and methodologies to enhance efficiency and accuracy, driving intelligent innovation within the firm.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Proven background and experience of working in a client-driven professional environment.


• Star payroll system experience (essential).


• Previous Payroll Bureau experience (essential).


• Professional and confident with a can-do attitude with the ability to forge professional relationships.


• A confident communicator, able to deal comfortably with staff and client at all levels, both internally and externally.


• Excellent administrative and organisational skills with an ability to progress several tasks simultaneously.


• Can prioritise workload and maintain effective systems.


• Strong team orientated approach, with flexibility regarding tasks undertaken and hours worked.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave plus three days off at Christmas


• Option to buy/sell additional days


• Hybrid Working


• Life Cover


• Critical Illness cover


• Income Protection


• Pension Scheme (3% Employer contribution / 5% Employee contribution)


• Wellbeing support, including generous absence pay, access to Digicare+ and an Employee Assistance Programme


• Generous family related leave and pay


• Weddings and birth vouchers


• Loyalty awards


• Employee and client referral awards


• Community volunteer scheme


• Fundraising matching


• Perkbox


• Eye Tests


• Cycle to work

A wide range of flexible benefits, including interest free loans for:

• Health Assessments


• Dental


• Gym memberships


• Cancer screening


• Genetic wellness tests


• Phones, laptops, tablets and computers


• Wearables


• Office furniture


• Cycle insurance


• Pet insurance


• Will writing