Payroll and Pension Assistant

CV-Library • Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire • 12h ago

Role: Payroll and Pension Assistant Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract - 12 Months Location: Aylesbury Salary: £32,416 per annum Closing Date: Friday 23rd January 2026

Job Purpose

To undertake a timely and accurate payroll, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and tax obligations.
To comply with pension regulations and do administration for the company pension schemes
Responsible for the input into the payroll system
Acting as the first point of contact within the payroll team
Ensuring that processes are up to date and communicated

Key Accountabilities

Monitoring the payroll inbox and undertaking all temporary input
Acting as first point of contact for all payroll related queries
Processing weekly and monthly reports
Providing 1st line support to employees and managers
Processing New starters, Leavers and changes in the payroll system
Processing sickness, writing to employees reducing pay
Overseeing maternity, paternity, and other statutory leave
Completing the IRMA uploads into the payroll system, checking and resolving any exceptions
Managing Childcare vouchers
Processing pension changes (AVCs & AVC Extra) in iTrent and the pension portal
Processing of retirements
Running Business Objects reports
Issuing P45s
Completing payroll checking reports
Managing all pension related queries
Uploading the weekly and monthly files to Railpen and Sharepoint
Processing salary confirmations on the pension portal