Payroll officer - Automotive Group 1
(2026-02)
- Collect and verify timesheets, overtime, commission, bonus and leave data.
- Ability to deal with End-to-end running of payrolls and associated activities
- Calculate Salary, deductions, bonuses, and statutory payments.
- Process payroll runs and issue payslips.
- Ensure payroll practices comply with HMRC regulations and employment law.
- Respond to payroll-related queries and resolve discrepancies.
- Assist employees with tax forms, payslips, and bank detail updates.
- Maintain confidentiality of sensitive employee data.
- Update payroll systems with new starters, leavers, and changes.
- Collaborate with HR and Finance to ensure data accuracy.
- Support system upgrades and process improvements.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks to deadlines
- Excellent written communication skills, including drafting formal correspondence
- Strong numerical and data entry skills
- Experience with using payroll software
- Knowledge of payroll legislation
- Familiarity with pension schemes and benefits
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Experience in multi-site or high-volume payroll
Accounts Assistant - Merbee foods
(2025-11 - 2026-01)
- Process and manage supplier invoices in an accurate and timely manner.
- Reconcile transactions and resolve discrepancies promptly.
- Maintain up-to-date records of financial transactions for audit purposes.
- Collaborate with internal departments to ensure proper authorisation of payments.
- Monitor and manage payment schedules to meet deadlines effectively.
- Respond to queries and maintain positive relationships with clients.
- Process the journals, accruals and prepayments.
- Contribute to improvements in the accounts payable and receivable processes and system efficiency.
- Process day-to-day financial operations, including payroll, sales ledger, purchase ledger, bank reconciliations, and intercompany transactions
- Maintain and adhere to financial policies and procedures
- Liaise with accountants on tax, auditing, banking, and investments
- Create, send, and follow up on sales invoices
- Prepare payroll payments for employees
- Review and maintain company policies, HR procedures, and occupational health records
- Handle recruitment, onboarding, and HR administration
Payroll officer - St Matthews Healthcare
(2024-09 - 2025-05)
- Manage the complete payroll process for approximately 1,300 employees, including data entry, calculations, and wage disbursement
- Manage 5 care home administration
- Provide training and support to staff on new systems.
- Experience with payroll and pension reconciliations.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including experience with pivot tables and VLOOKUP functions.
- Collaborate with HR, Finance, Unit Administrators & other departments to resolve payroll discrepancies.
- Respond to employee queries in a timely & professional manner.
- Inputting new starters, leavers, sickness & updating the company inhouse payroll system – Sage50 Payroll.
- Ability to work independently and manage time effectively.
- Ability to work for Bank staff Hourly staff overtime and salary staff.
- Experience of working on a high volume, multi-site payroll, within a fast-paced environment.
- Compliance review and abide by company policies and procedures, ensuring account balances are correct and resolving any payroll errors.
- Make suggestions to ensure that end-to-end employee lifecycle processes impacting payroll are effective and result in an excellent employee experience.
- Responsibility for delivery of payroll metrics to agreed SLA's.
- Ability to deal with End-to-end running of payrolls and associated activities
Finance Assistant - Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue
(2024-04 - 2024-08)
- Accounts payable, processing invoices and reconciling purchase ledger, reimbursement claims and petty cash
- Processing income, sales invoices, and banking in line with our financial procedures.
- Maintaining supplier and customer records, responding to queries, and recommending process improvements.
- Collating data for financial performance statistics.
- Assisting with statutory returns and year-end account closures.
- Conducting monthly ledger reconciliations and maintaining Excel spreadsheets.
- Responding to stakeholder queries and managing authorized signatories/forms to ensure correct authorization of invoices and expenses.
- Assisting in providing training on financial policies and procedures
Accounts Assistant - Broadband Buyer
(2023-12 - 2024-01)
- Purchase Order data entry.
- Review purchase order queries and liaise with suppliers both via email and phone where necessary to investigate and resolve.
- Purchase Ledger Reconciliation ensuring accuracy, validity, and completeness.
- Keep track of all Goods In
- Update lead times on Goods In
- File invoices and statements
- Liaise with staff internally regarding order queries
- Use various spreadsheets and update on a daily basis
- Answering finance-related queries in an efficient and timely manner
- Undertake any additional tasks reasonably required by the company
- Trade Account opening
- Credit application processing
- Process Orders
Payroll Assistant - Avery Healthcare
(2023-08 - 2023-12)
- Processing outsourced payroll for c. 8000 employees over 4 weekly and monthly payrolls
- Reconciliation of payroll information received from the payroll bureau
- Dealing with all clients, employees, and HMRC payroll queries
- Checking that employees are up to date with national minimum wage pay rate
- Helping to manage the payroll and deal with any queries in a timely fashion
- Processing amendments to salaries and employee data
- Resolution of day-to-day queries over the phone and email
- To produce reports as and when required
- To carry out any administration duties as requested for which you have been suitably trained
- National Statistics
Payroll Assistant - The Disability Resource Centre
(2023-04 - 2023-06)
- Processing of monthly payroll for up to 600 employees, involving:
- Collating, verifying, and reconciling payroll information from 19 sites.
- Inputting payroll data onto Sage 50
- Processing leaver information, calculating final pay, issuing P45s, etc.
- Processing new starters, calculating holiday entitlement etc.
- Processing all other payroll forms with regard to changes in personal details, variations to employee rates of pay, hours, job title etc.
- Dealing with Maternity / Paternity/sickness calculations
- Transmitting BACS payment
- Issuing payslips
- Reconciling all payroll reports and producing wages journal for the accounts system
- Updating employee records with regard to Holidays and sickness
- Processing DTP deductions and issuing letters to relevant employees.
Data Processor - BPHA Housing Association
(2019-10 - 2023-03)
- Handled sensitive data and legal documents, working within General Data Protection Regulations.
- Maintained records, updated applications, and input data onto systems.
- Liaised with applicants and solicitors externally by telephone and email.
- Contributed to maintaining within KPI by achieving silver and gold targets and produced excellent work.
- Used MS Office, such as Word for case notes, Excel for spreadsheets, and Outlook for correspondence.
- Reviewed and secured funds for small and large developers.
- Communicated updated information on the government contract to all parties.
- Collaborate with the team to accomplish a shared goal.
Customer Service Associate - Barclays Bank PLC
(2017-09 - 2019-08)
- Investigation of customer complaints and prompt resolution within FCA and FOS service level agreements
- Experience with multiple business products
- Exercising judgment and using initiative within the specified mandate and in accordance with TCF (Treating Customers Fairly) / DISP rules and standard
- Proactively providing advice, coaching, and support to less experienced colleagues to embed best practices and in support of their personal development objectives.
- Developing excellent in-depth knowledge of Barclay's procedures in order to act as a reference for subject matter expertise for complaints to internal stakeholders.
- Collaborating with colleagues and areas across the organisation to enable delivery of consistently high standards of 'seamless' customer service and achievement of customer targets
- Meeting tough and challenging deadlines, whilst, delivering and ensuring the professional quality of work and service to customers is not compromised
- Ownership of email queries from team leader/colleagues ensuring a complaint and collaborative resolution in accordance with mandates, rules, and standards, helping each other in the process, taking on new workloads, and making sure work is done promptly
Bookkeeper - Gold Crown Estate Agents
(2015-08 - 2016-02)
- Providing bookkeeping duties for a diverse portfolio of clients
- Preparing quarterly and annual VAT returns,
- Completed sales and purchase ledgers and made monthly bank reconciliations ensuring that all jobs were completed within specific budgets.
Sales Management Clerk - Nalco Foods Ltd
(2014-05 - 2015-08)
