Payroll & Accounts

• Location: Central London
• Salary: £40,000 FTE (3 days per week)

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Payroll & Accounts Manager to join our team on a part-time basis. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of payroll processing and managing various accounting tasks, ensuring accuracy and compliance with relevant regulations. This role requires strong leadership abilities, excellent organisational skills, and a thorough understanding of payroll and accounting systems and procedures.

Day-to-day of the role:

• Payroll Processing: Manage and run four monthly payrolls (two salaried and two hourly paid), ensuring timely and accurate payment to employees.
• Compliance: Handle statutory payments including sickness, maternity, and paternity pay, and ensure compliance with statutory returns.
• Year-End Tasks: Oversee the year-end closure of all databases and issue P60s to employees.
• Salary Adjustments: Implement salary increases, send increase letters, and adjust operatives' pay based on new costs or changes in National Minimum Wage (NMW) or Living Wage (LW).
• Time and Attendance: Manage the Time and Attendance system (TimeDNA) and approve budgets for changes to terms and conditions and new starters.
• Leavers and Starters: Process leavers and starters, calculate leavers' holidays, and handle interim payments and pay corrections for missed payments.
• Pension Management: Manage pension enrolment, re-enrolment, opt-outs, and reconcile pension payments, uploading them to Nest and setting up direct debits.
• Third-Party Deductions: Handle third-party deductions such as PHP, attachment of earnings, PCNs, and cycle-to-work schemes.
• Bankline Payments: Set up payments in Bankline for payroll and third-party payments.
• System Balancing: Balance all payroll systems (Templa, Select Pay, Access Systems) once payroll is complete.
• Journals: Prepare standard and nominal journals.
• Reporting: Generate monthly reports for regional directors on Time and Attendance and payroll.
• Business Surveys: Complete business surveys for the Office for National Statistics.
• Reconciliation: Reconcile ad-hoc payments versus workbills for invoicing.
• TUPE Transfers: Complete ELI for TUPE transfers and review incoming TUPE costing sheets.
• Redundancy Calculations: Calculate redundancy payments.
• New Sites/Contracts: Create new sites and contracts for new starters.
• Training: Provide timesheets and Time and Attendance training.
• Bonus Payments: Calculate and process bonus payments as requested by clients.
• Client Support: Assist with client queries and support the operations team.
• Budget Management: Add costing sheet budgets for new sites and client increases.