Payroll and Finance Assistant
Job description
Wincanton’s continued success and business growth has opened up an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Payroll & Finance Assistant to join a new team that we are creating within the Northampton area. Our new ‘Labour Campus’ team aims to provide highly skilled and experienced colleagues to our 7 operations within the Northampton area.
This role is to principally support the Labour Campus Manager with Finance and Payroll tasks by establishing and maintaining processes so that our labour campus team have their hours correctly processed each week and accurate pay, ensuring the team have all the tools and equipment they need to be successful in their role and ensuring invoices are issued and reconciled each week.
Working with the finance and people teams, this role will also ensure that all of the required checks and balances are in place to maintain accurate accounts, and all people related paperwork is in order, checked and stored correctly.
This is a full-time role working Monday to Friday. If required, we will consider tailoring the hours of work around the successful candidates’ personal circumstances.
The successful candidate will be able to work from home but will be required to travel within Northamptonshire as and when required for business demand.
- Timesheet management for the team and processing of accurate payroll.
- Processing and resolving pay related queries of the team.
- Data entry contributing to production of weekly accounts.
- Purchase Ledger processing – Invoices & purchase orders.
- Resolving any supplier queries.
- Ordering and monitoring of uniform stock.
- Maintaining the training records of the team, booking courses as required.
- Planning and manging person specific rotas for the labour campus team across the 7 locations within the Northampton area.
- Management of the team’s absence and holiday requests.
- Management of people related checks and paperwork; CV’s, Right to work, DBS, etc.
- Any other duties as reasonably required to ensure the efficient operation of the team.
- Ensuring team compliance with GDPR policies.
- As required arranging Occupational Health Assessments for MHE and night workers.
- Ad hoc duties to support the team and operation
- A team player willing to support as required with a can-do proactive attitude.
- Good attention to detail with an eye for accuracy.
- Analytical skills - the ability to understand and interpret reports.
- Planning skills – creating team rotas to best meet demand.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
- Able to work under own initiative and in a professional manner.
- The ability to plan and priorities a busy and varied workload.
- Confident with Microsoft Office.
- Able to communicate with internal & external colleagues / suppliers.
- Experience within a finance or payroll team preferred.
