Payroll Assistant
  • England,Yorkshire and The Humber,South Yorkshire,Sheffield
  • Full Time, Temporary
  • £13.50 - £15.50 per hour
Job Description:
Your new company

You’ll be joining a well-established public sector organisation with a strong commitment to service excellence and employee support. The finance team is dedicated, collaborative, and driven by accuracy and reliability. You’ll be part of a function that plays a vital role in ensuring colleagues receive a seamless and dependable payroll experience.

Your new role

As a payroll assistant, you’ll deliver an accurate and compliant payroll service, handling salary changes, statutory payments, deductions and manual calculations. You’ll support the smooth running of payroll systems while also managing key pension administration tasks, including preparing estimates, updating records and issuing notifications.You’ll act as a main contact for payroll, tax, NI and pension queries, ensure payrolls balance correctly, process third party payments, manage HMRC documentation, maintain accurate data and support reporting deadlines. The role also involves regular liaison with internal teams and external bodies, as well as general administrative duties.
This is a varied position combining routine processing with technical problem solving.

What you’ll need to succeed

Previous experience within payroll, ideally handling complex or high volume workloads.Confident understanding of payroll legislation and statutory requirements.
Ability to perform accurate manual calculations for gross-to-net checks.
Experience working with computerised payroll systems.
Excellent accuracy, organisational skills and ability to meet strict deadlines.
Strong communication skills and a professional approach when handling queries.
A commitment to confidentiality, compliance and data integrity.

What you’ll get in return


*Immediate start in a supportive and collaborative team
*Ongoing temporary contract
*Opportunity to make a real impact during a busy period


What you need to do now

If you’re interested in this role, click ’apply now’ to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now.
If this job isn’t quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career.
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Job number 3408816

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