Payroll Assistant

Summary

Join Sona, a rapidly growing company revolutionizing frontline workforce management, as a Payroll Assistant. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute significantly to a dynamic team. You will assist in payroll processing, onboarding, and data management, ensuring accuracy and compliance. The position requires strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. While experience in UK payroll processing is beneficial, it's not mandatory. Sona provides a remote-first work environment with excellent benefits, including competitive salary, share options, generous leave, pension contributions, health insurance, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Intermediate to Advanced user of Microsoft excel and/or Google sheets, confident with SUM, VLOOKUP, PIVOT, CONCATENATE, etc
• Can work independently or as part of a team

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation, processing and safeguarding of payrolls, ensuring accuracy and compliance with UK and Ireland payroll legislation
• Handle data collection, input, validation and auditing for payroll runs
• Processing regular checks of payroll data to safeguard a developing integration
• Support payroll implementations, configuring systems using step-by-step guides. Checking off actions within an implementation checklist
• Provide excellent customer service and support resolving queries and discrepancies promptly
• Collaborate with internal teams to resolve queries and tickets
• Maintain accurate payroll records and ensure GDPR compliance

Preferred Qualifications

• Start up mentality, drive to help build a solid payroll service while disrupting traditional offerings and processes
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and build solid business relationships
• Extreme organisation and prioritisation skills - you will need to manage and triage requests that compete for your time from internal and external stakeholders alike
• Methodical with high attention to detail
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Positive attitude, no detail is too small, no challenge too large, with a strong and supportive team everything is surmountable
• Be a driver, not a passenger
• Don’t wait until tomorrow for something that can be done today
• Working knowledge and understanding of processing UK payrolls, end to end within a bureau/outsourced environment, desirable but not essential
• Studying towards a CIPP (or equivalent) qualification is desirable but not essential
• Understanding of Information Security quality standards and GDPR compliance desirable not essential
• Previous use of Apple Mac desirable

Benefits

• Salary: £28,000 - £30,000
• Share options
• Remote first and flexible working
• 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
• Pension contributions matched up to 5%
• Comprehensive Health Insurance via Bupa
• Enhanced parental leave & pay
• Co-working space stipend
• Quarterly all expenses paid team retreats
• The latest Macbook and equipment for your home office
• Professional development budget
• Unlimited free books