We are a busy accountancy firm with two offices and a rapidly expanding outsourced client services team. The team includes both payroll and bookkeeping, and we are looking for an individual to lead this team and its growth strategy, as well as being hands-on with more complex elements of bookkeeping, management accounts, and payroll.
The role will be a split role with responsibilities as follows:
Payroll
You will have your own portfolio of clients and take on the responsibility of the end-to-end processing of these payrolls. This will include the running of weekly, monthly, and annual payrolls, auto-enrolment pensions, and RTI.
Our payrolls are processed in Moneysoft and Xero. Experience of either of these programmes would be desirable, but not essential as full training can be given to the right candidate. Payroll qualifications are not required, but some previous payroll experience and a basic understanding of tax codes, national insurance, and auto enrolment would be an advantage.
Responsibilities
* Processing weekly and monthly payrolls
* Entering data to calculate SSP, SMP, and SPP
* Submitting RTI information to HMRC
* Processing pensions (multiple providers) to include new starters, leavers, and regular contributions
* Calculating holiday pay
* Liaising with clients, HMRC, and pension providers
* Providing administrative support to other members of the team if required
The ideal candidate will have
* Excellent attention to detail
* Ability to prioritise own workload and use own initiative
* Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
* Basic knowledge of tax codes, NI calculations, and pension contribution calculations
* Experience of payroll processing - ideally in Moneysoft and Xero (not essential but an advantage)
* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Excel, Word, and other general computing skills (essential)
* Good communication skills, a friendly telephone manner, and ability to work as part of a team
Bookkeeping and Management Accounts
The role would involve doing the bookkeeping, management accounts, and VAT returns for a number of our more complex clients. This would mainly be done using Xero cloud-based software.
Key responsibilities include:
* Reconciling transactions regularly in line with the clients' expectations (daily/weekly/fortnightly/monthly)
* Maintaining control spreadsheets to enable managers to understand the status of their clients' work
* Considering and applying the correct VAT treatment to the transactions that you are reconciling
* Maintaining purchase ledgers
* Bank reconciliations
* Preparing VAT returns in advance of the deadline, giving the client ample time to make the payment
* Preparation of sales invoices
* Preparing supplier payment runs
* Managing client inboxes
* Reconciling supplier statements
* Preparation of management accounts
Our more complicated bookkeeping clients' work may include:
* Overseas sales and purchases
* Overseas VAT
* Complex coding
* Management of client accounts
* Stock management
* Debt factoring
* CIS returns
As a key member of the team, the successful candidate will work directly with the clients to maintain their financial records. Therefore, good interpersonal skills and organisation are both key.
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: £28,000.00-£33,000.00 per year
Expected hours: 22.5 – 37.5 per week
Work Location: In person
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