Payroll Assistant

Geary's Bakeries Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000

Job description

Payroll Assistant - 6 Month FTC

The Role

Sitting within our Payroll team, this role will support the team on various fronts, ensuring key tasks are carried out in an efficient and effective manner to continue to deliver a robust and reliable finance service, both internally and externally.

The main responsibilities include:

• Reporting into the Payroll & Integrations Manager, this role is to enhance the capabilities of the payroll team and be instrumental in driving efficiencies.
• Maintaining payroll email inboxes
• Updating payroll information for starters and leavers
• Recording employee absences
• Running weekly reporting on payroll
• Assisting with adhoc payroll reporting and processing

About Us

At Geary's, we’re on a crusade to make proper bread more accessible to more people. We’re passionate about re-imagining the way Great Britain thinks about their everyday loaf. This passion is at the heart of everything we do, and have done, since 1906.

We are born and bred in Leicestershire and proud of our long-standing heritage. Today, we operate from three sites on a 24/7 operation. We’re made up of over 800 people: a friendly, diverse and outgoing team, passionate about making a difference to the bakery industry.

We provide full training and support, and the chance to learn new skills from some of the best master bakers in the country. We invest in those who are committed to our craft and offer great opportunities to develop into supervisory and management roles.

Our brilliant benefits include free delicious bread, a Cycle to Work scheme, BUPA, and Death in Service.

Plus, if you refer a friend to join our team, you could earn up to GBP500!

About You

The role calls for somebody with a naturally inquisitive mind, a thirst to drive continuous improvement, and experience of working within fast-paced environments.

Key Essential Criteria:

• Payroll experience / knowledge
• Excellent IT skills, ideally within Excel.
• Solutions-focused mind.
• Great communication skills

Desirable but not essential:

• Knowledge of Sage200 would be advantageous.
• Food industry experience

Additional Information:
All applicants must have the right to work in the UK, at the point of interview and for the duration of the employment contract. As part of the recruitment process, you will be asked to provide documented evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK.

If you haven’t heard from us within seven days, unfortunately, you have not been successful on this occasion. However, we wish you every success in your search for a new position.

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