Chinese speaking accounting assistant (Payroll)

Title: Chinese Speaking Accounting Assistant (Payroll)

Salary : £22,000-£25,000

Location: WFH initially and then hybrid at the London office

The Company

This is one of the fastest growing trading company in the UK with a thriving import, and also a wholesale, business. The company has multiple stores across the UK and has just opened a large all-in-one flag ship store in the Leicestershire area. Food, supermarkets and all things related to e-commerce is a rapidly changing sector and represents growth opportunities for those looking to build a career in this sector.

The Role

To work as part of the small finance team providing an excellent service to company in accordance with company’s values, procedures, prevailing legislation and good professional practice so as to meet or exceed company’s expectations and needs.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To collect and enter high volumes of payroll data, supplied by companies, into Sage 50 cloud Payroll software to meet deadlines
• To ensure all security and confidentiality policies are adhered to.
• To ensure a high standard of processing whilst working efficiently and to tight deadlines.
• To assist in the processing and calculation of net pay, for each employee on a company’s payroll, using either computer software, or manually, applying the rules and tables supplied by HMRC.
• To notify company of amounts due to HMRC.
• To assist in the production, for transmission via BACS on the relevant dates, of net pay details to the correct bank accounts.
• To assist in balancing payroll figures to produce all relevant month and year end reports for each company.
• To assist with the transmission to HMRC, via RTI (Real Time Information), forms P45, P46, FPS and EPS returns.
• To ensure timeliness of downloads from HMRC and pension providers about tax codes, Student Loan notices and opt out dates.
• To ensure appropriate records are kept and recorded appropriately.
• To maintain an awareness of and can adapt to changes in legislation affecting payroll processing and PAYE in general.
• To assist in the auto-enrolment process for company, by understanding the legislation, creating reports via our payroll software and liaising with pensions providers.
• To assist other ad hoc tasks assigned by line manager.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Have at least 1 year’ experience in a payroll function, preferably in inhouse processing multiple payrolls.
• Be technically aware of changing legislation.
• Be familiar with the use of recognised software applications (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills as there will be contact within stakeholder at all levels.
• Have good organisational skills as well as the ability to take initiative and contribute to the effective running of the department.
• Have knowledge of Sage 50 cloud payroll professional as an advantage