Payroll & Accounts Assistant

Payroll Assistant / Finance Assistant
£25,000 - £27,000
Leicester / Hybrid
Permanent / Full Time
SF Recruitment are working with a market leading Construction company based in Leicester who are seeking an experienced Payroll & Finance Assistant to join their business, reporting into the Payroll Manager. They take pride in their staff and working environment, and also offer a hybrid working pattern.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a supportive business that encourages employee development and growth from within.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist the payroll manager to run all end-to-end payrolls.
- Responding to payroll queries from colleagues.
- Running payroll reports, plus ad-hoc reports when necessary.
- Updating the HR system with pay changes.
- Pension admin for our Nest Pension Schemes.
- Reconciling our accounts with our payroll figures.
- To work with and support the HR team where necessary.
- Matching, checking and coding invoices.
- Setting up of new supplier accounts and maintaining existing account details.
- Reconciliation of supplier statements.
- Resolve older queries on Supplier accounts.
- Timely identification and resolution of queries involving liaison by phone or written communication with internal staff and external suppliers.
- Provide support as needed for the wider team.
The ideal candidate:
- 2 or more years' experience within a Payroll team.
- Have dealt with the high volumes of invoices and will be comfortable assisting with high value payment runs.
- Be able to prioritise their workload and work to strict deadlines.
- Be confident with the full purchase ledger process.
If you are interested in this vacancy and would like to be considered, please apply with your most up to date CV or get in contact with Richard Shenton at SF Recruitment.