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Who are Azets
Azets are a leading firm of Accountants and Business Advisers operating across the UK, Ireland and the Nordics, we have a wide network of employees and an abundance of inspiring opportunities to join one of our many offices!
We are a top ten accountancy firm in the UK and are the number one largest SME practice.
The opportunity
As a Senior at Azets, you will have the ability and motivation needed to:
- Begin to take ownership of your own portfolio with support from your manager
- Support in delivering revenue and profitability targets
- Begin to develop enduring client relationships
Day to day duties
- Manage the end-to-end payroll process and auto enrolment compliance for a portfolio of clients
- Deal with all associated payroll processing tasks required for processing to completion of the payroll process
- Manage client expectations
- Develop relationships with your clients also ensuring effective communication with the wider offices, HMRC and other third-party providers
- Working as part of the wider team to review work produced by more junior team members and support the Payroll Manager
- Leading by example in regards to attitude and processing of payrolls, so others in the team will follow suit
- Being the first point of contact to the team to assist and support the team in responding to queries from clients, HMRC, 3rd party providers etc.
- Support in regards to legislation and system queries
- Completing regular training for the wider team, which could range from information about legislation to systems
- Peer checking of payrolls
- Streamlining any current processes within the team/ Updating and maintaining payroll records/files
- Any ad-hoc duties or projects that may be necessary
- Producing and developing ad hoc financial and operational reporting as needed
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What are we looking for?
- Over two years’ experience in payroll with experience using STAR (experience in a bureau environment would be highly desirable)
- End to end Payroll processing experience including pensions, benefits and statutory payments
- Must have the ability to manually calculate a payroll
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail across both manual and systems based work
- A natural ability to coordinate, prioritise and multitask with little supervision
- Strong customer focused approach, ability to handle customer queries by telephone and email
- Be able to adapt to a highly changeable environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure whilst meeting tight deadlines
- In depth knowledge and understanding of payroll legislation, processing, and auto enrolment regulations
- Effective client management experience and steps towards staff management
- Mentorship and coaching experience to support other team members to ensure they perform work duties
- Ideally with a CIPP Foundation degree qualification or working towards this qualification
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What's in it for you?
Our benefits include hybrid & flexible working, birthday leave, professional subscription and much more. You can find out more about how we reward our colleagues - Careers | Rewards And Benefits | Azets UK
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