VG Payroll Assistant

Payroll Assistant (Vet Business) – Part-time (3 days per week, Weds/Thurs and Fri)

• Hybrid Working – with a weekly presence at our Handforth Office in Cheshire
• Salary £27,431k (pro-rata equivalent of c£16,458) plus Benefits

About Us

We’re all for pets, what we do matters for pet owners across the UK.  This is more than a business, it’s a responsibility.  It’s a promise and commitment we make each day to provide excellent care for each pet that comes through our door.

Every colleague has a part to play to ensure that we deliver on this commitment every day. Our love and understanding of pets led us to develop our long-term goal to improve the life of every pet in the UK. 

This covers not only the pets in our care and the pets of the 8m plus active consumers that buy our products and services but also the pets that we can help through our charity work and through educating and advocating for change in society and the wider pet care and veterinary industry. 

We’re a nation mad about pets, and we go to any lengths to keep them happy and healthy. It’s a love with no bounds and no boundaries.

About the Role

This role will see you supporting our National footprint of Vet Practices, working alongside a peer Payroll Assistant who works from Monday through to Wednesday.
It’s a busy role and you will be part of a dedicated team who together, administer payroll for our Vets practices consisting of approximately 9,000 colleagues and growing, providing an efficient and effective payroll service.

The role is hybrid in nature, requiring a minimum of one day per week to be based out of our Head Office in Handforth, Cheshire.

What you’ll be doing

• Processing timely, compliant, and accurate end-to-end payroll for c9000 vet practice colleagues on a four-weekly basis across several payrolls.
• Manual Calculations
• RTI submissions
• Calculating SSP, Company sick pay entitlements and statutory entitlements.
• Processing AOE and CSA deductions, P45s and New Starter Checklists.
• Query management and resolution to deliver first class service to our colleagues.

• Processing of P11d’s and the returns using 3rd party software.

This is a great opportunity for someone looking for their next step with the payroll discipline and will offer many developmental opportunities.

Click here to read our Values & Behaviours

About You – what we would like you to bring to our role

Ideally, you will understand and can bring experience of administrating payroll within an office environment.

You’ll be well organised, work to a high level of accuracy and have keen attention to detail. Your strong written and verbal communication skills will support your delivery of great payroll administration and you will be computer literate in Word, Excel & Outlook.

As an honest and trustworthy individual, you will be able to comfortably handle confidential information & adhere to all GDPR legislation.

We put people at the very heart of everything we do, so while our colleagues are making sure the nation’s pets and their people are well-looked after, it’s only fair that we ensure they are looked after too. 

If the sound of this very rewarding, busy, creative and critical role sounds like you – we would love to hear from you!

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!