Payroll Assistant

Payroll Assistant - Education, Tutoring and Social WorkLocation: Loughton Salary: 18 PH Hours: 37.5 HRS Per Week ( 5 Days ) 6 Month Contract Only Reports to: Payroll Manager / Finance Manager About the RoleWe 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 many 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 in independently running payroll from start to finish. Key ResponsibilitiesAssist with the weekly/monthly processing of payroll for a high volume of education, tutoring and social work workers.Accurately input and maintain worker payroll information and booking details.Check and process timesheets and hours worked, ensuring ..... full job details .....