Payroll & Accounts Assistant

Join us and start your Payroll Career!

At Dext, we help accountants and bookkeepers work smarter through technology. We are now looking for a Payroll & Accounts Assistant in Bulgaria to join our international Finance team. This is a learning role. You will work closely with our Head of Payroll and grow into running payroll for a whole country.

About the role

About 75% of your time is payroll. You will learn how payroll works in several countries (the UK, France, Canada, Australia and Bulgaria). You will start with the basics and take on more as you grow.

The other 25% is accounting. One week each month, you will join the Accounting team for the month-end close.

What you’ll do

Payroll

• Prepare monthly payroll inputs: new starters, leavers, changes, overtime, bonuses and absence

• Learn UK, France, Australia, Canada and Bulgaria payroll as a back-up, so the team is always covered

• Check payroll against the accounts and prepare payroll journals

• Answer employee payroll questions

• Work with HR, payroll providers and tax authorities

• Keep process notes and checklists up to date

Month-end accounting

• Prepare accruals (costs for work already done that we have not been invoiced for yet) and prepayments (costs we have paid in advance that belong to future months)

• Help with balance sheet reconciliations

• Help us close the books faster

• Answer finance and audit questions

Who you are

• You have an accounting, finance or similar background (a degree, or part-way through ACCA/CIMA/ICAEW, is great)

• You have 1-2 years of experience in payroll, accounts or finance. We are happy to train the right person

• You know the accounting basics: accruals, prepayments and reconciliations

• You are good with Excel

• You are careful and always check your own work

• You speak and write fluent English

• You can keep confidential information safe

• You stay calm and organised when deadlines are close

• You are curious, ask questions when unsure, and want to grow in payroll or accounting

Nice to have

• Experience with an ERP such as NetSuite or Xero

• Interest in payroll in other countries

Our Perks & Benefits

• 25+1 days paid time off (including your birthday)

• Remote work and flexible hours

• Volunteering days

• Parental leave

• Additional health and life insurance

• Wellbeing benefits

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