Summary:

We are looking for a detail-oriented person to fulfill an essential role in our busy finance team. As a Finance Assistant responsible for payroll, you will work closely with colleagues – especially the People Team – to ensure the management of all payroll and pensions activity.
You will ensure that the monthly payroll is processed in an accurate and timely manner. You will have excellent attention to detail, good numeracy skills and be comfortable dealing with a range of stakeholders.

United Welsh is an award-winning not-for-profit organisation providing homes and related services in South Wales. We are passionate about building homes, creating communities and transforming lives.
We look after over 6,700 homes for people across 11 local authority areas, and our services help thousands more in our communities.
Helping people to live happily and in good health is important to us, and we are proud to have been named fifth best landlord in the UK.
We have a new building programme that is worth around £55m each year and in the next five years, we intend to build 1,300 more homes.
We are ambitious about how we can help people to live their best lives, working with a range of partners including local and national government and the NHS to give people choice; tackling poverty, improving wellbeing and playing our part in ending homelessness.
The Group includes our repairs and maintenance service Celtic Horizons; timber frame home manufacturer Celtic Offsite and Harmoni Homes Ltd, which builds affordable homes and homes for sale.
With over 400 employees and a turnover of over £40m, we are an ambitious organisation with a strong sense of social purpose.
Life at United Welsh centres around our culture. We live by our values which connect us and inspire us, guiding our strategies as well as the decisions we make day to day.

Job Role:

We are looking for a detail-oriented person to fulfill an essential role in our busy finance team.
As a Finance Assistant responsible for payroll, you will work closely with colleagues – especially the People Team – to ensure the management of all payroll and pensions activity.
You will ensure that the monthly payroll is processed in an accurate and timely manner. You will have excellent attention to detail, good numeracy skills and be comfortable dealing with a range of stakeholders.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Process the monthly payroll for United Welsh and its subsidiaries which includes submitting all statutory HMRC returns, pension submissions and year end processing
  • Ensure that payroll processes comply with relevant laws and regulations
  • Processing CIS returns and submitting to HMRC
  • The processing of staff expenses including reconciliation of the Expenses Ledger and the administration of expenses software
  • Responsible for the Sales Ledger, including raising invoices, chasing outstanding debt and preparing the monthly closedown
  • Complete balance sheet control account reconciliations including posting journals and making corrections when necessary
  • Assist the Financial Reporting Manager in the preparation of statutory disclosure notes for the financial statements and data provision for the annual salary budget process Provide cover for the Cashbook function and support the wider team when necessary
  • Work on own initiative to prioritise workload in order to meet deadlines
  • Identify opportunities for process enhancements and automation to improve efficiency and accuracy
  • Build and proactively manage collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, dealing with enquiries and producing suitable information tailored to their needs

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Additional Information:

Location: Caerphilly

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £31,481.52 per annum

Contract: Permanent, full time

Closing date: Tuesday 1st October at 9am

To Apply:  

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and cover letter to jobs@unitedwelsh.com. In the cover letter, please outline why you believe you would be successful in this role based on your experience and on the essential/desirable criteria in the job description, in no more than 1,000 words.

In addition to your CV and cover letter, please also complete our online Equality, Diversity and Declaration of Interest form which can be found on our website here. If you do not complete all parts of this process, you will be at risk of your application not being progressed further.

We reserve the right to close this role early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Within your CV, please provide the names, positions, organisations and contact details for two referees, one of whom should be your current or most recent employer. We will not approach these referees prior to the shortlist stage, and we will seek your permission first. However, references will be sought as part of our pre-employment checks for the successful candidate.

  • We would be grateful if you could submit the Equality Diversity and Declaration of Interest form with your application. You can complete this form online. The information you provide will be used for monitoring purposes only and will be kept separate from your application
  • Please ensure your CV and other documents are emailed as a Word or PDF file, as unfortunately, we are currently unable to accept applications in any other formats at the moment
  • Requirements within the essential criteria of the Personal Requirements will be used for shortlisting purposes. However, all the criteria will be considered in the process of making an appointment.

Please send any applications to jobs@unitedwelsh.com

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