Payroll Assistant | Temp to Perm| Atherstone | Up to £16ph Are you a confident Payroll professional with strong Excel skills and experience working through change? Macildowie is delighted to be collaborating with an exciting business in Atherstone, who are looking for a Payroll Assistant to join them on a temporary basis during a critical transition period. Location: Warwickshire (Office Based) Pay: Up to £16 per hour Hours: Flexible start & Finish (35 hours per week) Start Date: ASAP The Role: You will be liaising with and supporting the outsourced payroll partner in the delivery of accurate, timely payroll for around 850 employees. While payroll is outsourced, there remains a significant need for manual checks, calculations, and reconciliations internally. Key Responsibilities: Review and validate payroll data received from internal systems and external payroll provider Conduct detailed manual calculations to verify accuracy of pay, adjustments, and deductions Support in the preparation and processing of monthly payroll for c.850 employees Maintain accurate employee records, ensuring changes are reflected across systems and with the payroll provider Liaise with internal managers to clarify timesheet anomalies or data gaps Upload data to pension portals and support pension scheme administration Support the accurate submission of P11Ds and benefit-in-kind reporting Ensure all statutory deductions (PAYE, NI, pensions) are correct Act as a point of contact for payroll queries from staff Prepare audit trails, payroll journals, and reports for internal stakeholders Monitor SLAs with outsourced payroll provider and flag inconsistencies or risks Support general HR/payroll administration tasks as required About You: Proven experience in payroll, ideally during a system or provider transition Strong Excel skills - comfortable with formulas, lookups and working with large data sets Familiarity with IRIS payroll software is highly desirable Experience with pension portals, benefits and P11Ds would be a real bonus Able to work in-office 5 days a week and ideally located within 15 miles of Warwickshire HQ Full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential due to site location Please put your home postcode on your CV when applying. Our recruitment tech uses this to make sure your CV is reviewed by the relevant consultant, for the relevant job(s), in the relevant geography. Macildowie are a recruitment business working on behalf of a client to recruit this role. Your personal data may be forwarded to that client company as part of the application process. If you would like information on how we will process your data please go to our website (macildowie.com) and view our fair processing notices which are located at the bottom of the page under privacy policies. Within the fair processing notice for Candidates there is guidance on how to amend your contact preferences or exercise your rights relating to personal data. We can't provide direct links as email address and website urls within our job adverts are removed by some of the websites on which we advertise. Macildowie is a specialist recruitment consultancy with a rich history of enhancing the careers of professionals across the Midlands and the Northern Home Counties. We have an unrivalled understanding of the local market place and recruit for the majority of the region's premier employers. To search for all of our live jobs please visit us at macildowie.com.