Finance Assistant (Accounts Payable & Payroll)

Your role

As our Finance Assistant (Accounts Payable & Payroll), you’ll play a key role in keeping our finance operations running smoothly every day. You’ll make sure our invoices and payroll are processed accurately and on time, build strong working relationships with suppliers and our People Operations team, and support colleagues across the business to help them understand, and confidently follow, our procure-to-pay processes

Your responsibilities

Payroll

· Process our end-to-end payroll including hours worked, holiday pay, commissions, new starters, leavers and contractual changes

· Manage salary sacrifice schemes like pensions, Cycle to Work and electric vehicles, ensuring accurate deductions and timely updates to payroll systems

· Keep payroll data accurate through routine checks and resolving discrepancies, ensuring compliance with internal controls and statutory requirements

· Be the first point of contact for payroll queries, escalating complex issues as needed

· Prepare payroll reports and support HMRC submissions and audit requirements.

Finance & Accounts Payable

· Full monthly reconciliation of supplier accounts, ensuring all invoices are matched off against payments

· Processing monthly and weekly payment runs

· Deal with purchase enquiries

· Matching invoices to purchase orders, coding and processing invoices

· Supplier statement reconciliation

· Dealing with telephone and email enquiries from suppliers and colleagues

· Operate the Pleo credit card system including coding costs to the relevant department

· Reconciliation of company credit cards

· Maintaining filing system

· General administrative support in the running of the Finance team

Your skills, experience & qualifications

Essential

· Solid experience in payroll processing (hourly & salaried staff)

· Strong understanding of payroll legislation and statutory requirements

· Good Accounts Payable or wider finance experience

· Excellent attention to detail and confidence working with numbers

· Strong Excel skills and familiarity with finance systems

· A proactive approach – you like to make things better

· Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Desirable

· Previous experience with Purchase Order Systems

· Experience of operating Iplicit finance system and Sage 50 payroll system

Application closing date 3rd of March 2026.