Payroll Administrator and Bookkeeper

Location: Halesowen, West Midlands

Salary: £28,000 - £30,000

Contract: Full-time, Permanent Position - 37 hours per week

Fantastic opportunity to work within a reputable Accountancy Practice in the West Midlands. If you are current looking for a new role within Payroll, then this could be for you! Actively looking for a new addition to their payroll team, someone who is experienced within the role and someone who can cover Bookkeeping duties occasionally where need be.

Main duties include:

• Preparations and administration of weekly and monthly payrolls.
• Administration of PAYE, National Insurance deductions based on individual allowances.
• Processing mandatory deductions of student loans, SSP, SMP SAP, SPP, court orders and other legislative responsibilities.
• Employer Payment Summary (EPS) to reclaim statutory payment and construction industry scheme (CIS) suffered, pay apprenticeship levy and claim employers' allowances.
• Pension deductions and employee pension correspondence and maintenance of pension portals.
• Administration of pension schemes and pension auto-enrolment, incentive schemes, bonuses and ex-gratia and termination payments.
• Liaise with HMRC regarding PAYE / NIC queries.
• Submission of annual reporting and tasks including final full payment summary (FPS), production of employee P60 forms, earlier year update (EYU)
• Ad hoc duties from senior members.

Bookkeeping support:

• Production/Support of Monthly Management Accounts, where need be.
• Ledger Postings such as Bank, sales, purchase, and nominal.
• Bank reconciliations.
• VAT returns/reconciliation/reporting.
• Reconciliations of control accounts (including debtors, creditors, payroll, VAT, PAYE/NIC and other payroll related controls.)
• Preparations of month end/year-end adjustments including prepayments, accruals, deferred income.

Ideal candidate will have/be:

• Experienced using Sage payroll or PayCircle - or similar cloud-based payroll software.
• AAT Level 4 qualified (or relevant Bookkeeping experience)
• Previous experience within payroll and bookkeeping - minimum of 2 years
• Xero/SAGE knowledge (advantage)
• Experience with Microsoft software/computer literate.

Sound like a job for you. APPLY NOW, happy to have a chat to discuss the opportunity further.

Looking for people who have right to work in the UK as cannot offer sponsorship at this level. Please apply if you have the relevant experience and are genuinely interested in the position.

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