Payroll Assistant - Education, Tutoring and Social Work

About the Role We are a fast-paced recruitment company specialising in the education, tutoring and social work sectors. Due to the high volume of workers we support, we are looking for an organised, accurate and proactive Payroll Assistant to join our busy payroll team. This is a hands-on role supporting the processing of payroll for a large number of temporary and contract workers. You will work closely with our recruitment and operations teams, managed service vendors and local authorities to ensure hours are received, checked and processed accurately and on time. The successful candidate will ideally have previous payroll or payroll administration experience and be confident working with large volumes of data. Experience using Merit Payroll Software and/or managed vendor systems for submitting hours to local authorities would be highly advantageous. This is also a great opportunity for someone who wants to develop their payroll knowledge and, over time, become confident independently running payroll from start to finish. The Role You will support the weekly and monthly payroll process, ensuring worker information, bookings, timesheets and hours are accurately recorded and processed within the required deadlines. This will include setting up new workers and bookings, checking timesheets, processing leavers and finishers, maintaining accurate records and assisting with payroll checks and reconciliations before payroll is finalised. You will work closely with recruitment, ..... full job details .....