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BUILD YOUR CAREER. JOIN US AT AAB.\n\nAAB is a leading professional services firm operating across the UK, Ireland, and the USA. We specialise in the mid-market, supporting individuals, family businesses, and organisations with a full suite of services including audit, tax, corporate finance, payroll, people consultancy, and wealth management. With 1,000+ team members, we deliver expert support to clients all over the world.\nEVERYONE HAS THE AABILITY TO SUCCEED- WE’LL HELP YOU GET THERE.\n\nOur people are at the heart of everything we do. We succeed together as one team, building strong client relationships through passion, empathy, and straightforward advice. That’s what makes AAB different. We invest in brilliant talent across every area of the business, offering tailored training, professional qualifications, and continuous support to help you grow.\nYour growth matters to us. We’ll give you the tools, encouragement, and opportunities to lead, learn, and make an impact. Guided by our six core values, we foster a culture where collaboration, trust, and enthusiasm thrive.\nAABSOLUTELY DEDICATED TO HELPING YOU ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS\n At AAB, your career is what you make it. We are here to help you turn ambition into action, whether that’s becoming a technical expert, a future leader, or someone who simply makes a difference every day. If you're ready to be part of a team that’s united by purpose and driven by values, we’d love to hear from you.\nESG COMMITMENT\n\nWe take our responsibility seriously. From reducing our environmental impact, to supporting education through training and talent programmes, to giving back to our local communities with our charitable initiative ABBIE- ESG is part of who we are.\nROLE PURPOSE\nMain tasks of the role:\nDemonstrate knowledge and understanding of the firm’s technical and operational methods, processes, procedures and standards of work required, particularly in relation to the work of your team, dealing with increasingly complex clients and tasks. \nExpand your knowledge and build on experience gained\nBe seen as a source of knowledge for colleagues and provide effective on the job and in-house training and support their development \nReview and issue output to clients, with limited guidance from senior colleagues, having due regard for risk\nIdentify main points to discuss with colleagues and clients, and offer practical solutions\nDevelop relationships with clients, their staff and their professional advisors. Continue to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the services offered by your department and the firm as a whole and identify areas where the firm could assist clients\nManage the workflow for the team and delegate work, as appropriate, to junior colleagues and ensure that what is expected of them is clearly explained and monitor their work and productivity effectively\nBe responsible for work of junior colleagues, review their work, provide feedback and address learning points, as appropriate, ensuing that they are fully productive and their skills well utilised and hold the team accountable\nEnsure that the firm’s administrative, operational and business procedures, including professional practices, professional ethics, the firm’s methods and standards of work are followed\nIdentify client service and process improvements and, in conjunction with the wider team, actively promote ideas and suggestions and participate in all process improvements as part of the firm’s commitment to continuous improvement, financial discipline and operational excellence\nTechnical tasks:\nProcess complex payrolls, seek guidance where required from Payroll Assistant Manager or relevant EPP Service Line - aid own technical development by researching solutions to problems\nMaintain technical knowledge and be aware of future changes to payroll legislation, suggest and implement required changes to processes and procedures\nDrive specialist technical roles and projects as required\nReview and send BACs payments per audit requirements\nMaintain accurate and effective client process manuals for your lead payrolls and support team to ensure department manuals are of the required standard\nMaintain an understanding of all payroll team related software and undertake testing of updates and upgrades in line with audit requirements. Raise queries with software providers when issues arise with supervision\nMonitor payroll workloads across the team on a daily basis, ensure all payments and administration tasks are completed to necessary timescales and proactively plan recurring team duties in advance where necessary\n1st Line of support for any EPP assistants and analysts who require guidance on a day to day basis \nComplete allocated monthly control reviews to support the payroll audit requirements\nExperience & qualifications\nProfessional Qualifications and Education\n\nRequired\nHigher Grade/A Level or equivalent\nRelevant professional qualifications\nPreferred\nUniversity degree 2:1 minimum classification\nPreferred Experience\n3-4 years’ relevant work experience \nPrevious experience of working in a similar role \nExperience of working to tight deadlines\nExperience of handling a client portfolio \nExperience of technical compliance and advisory work\nExperience of supervising staff\n\nRequired knowledge and skills\nExcellent organisational skills\nStrong communication skills - both written and oral\nKnowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and relevant software packages.\nAttention to detail\nProblem solving skills\nWorking knowledge of relevant legislation and industry best practice\nRequired attributes\nGood team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels \nAbility to work on own initiative and to tight deadlines\nSelf-motivated, with an ability to develop ideas into practice \nThe list of duties is not intended to be exhaustive but highlights a number of key tasks. The requirement to undertake additional duties which might reasonably be expected also form part of the function of the role.\nWHAT AAB OFFER\n\n We want you to feel supported inside and outside of work. 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