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Payroll Officer
Job Posted: a day ago
Salary: £ 12.73 - 12.8 / Hour
Job Type: Temporary
Location: Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Expire in: a month
Job Description
New Opportunity!
Payroll Officer
Salary - £ 12.73 per hour
Proposed Start Date - Subject to clearance (ASAP)
End Date/Duration - 3 months with possibility to extend or go to permanent position.
Office Location - Sheffield S1
Screening Requirement - DBS
Role Overview
Responsible for the delivery of accurate payments to staff and police officers, both weekly and monthly for a defined part of the total payroll, ensuring legislation, Terms & Conditions of Service and other Statutory and Local agreements are processed correctly. Responsible for the completion of a timely and accurate payroll within defined timescales, ensuring confidentiality of staff records at all times.
Key Responsibilities
Work within the guidelines of our Service Delivery and Client policies and procedures, ensuring that Audit requirements are met at all times and deadlines are strictly adhered to
Responsible for dealing effectively with queries from customers both internal and external, both by telephone or email, at all times conveying a professional and efficient attitude and pass any contentious calls to the Payroll Management team abiding by Client policies and procedures
Reporting to the Payroll Manager for all aspects of payroll work, ensuring the continued smooth and effective running of the section and that all targets are met within defined deadlines
Responsible for ensuring that all National or Local payroll changes are dealt with in accordance with requirements, and that all customers are able to understand the changes that affect their pay
Responsible for ensuring that all documentation relating to statutory legislation and Terms & Conditions of service is kept up to date and is easily accessible to the rest of the team
Verify written responses to queries from staff, Clients and external agencies
Validation of other payroll officer's temporary and permanent alterations to staff records. Ensure and validate that appropriate checking mechanisms are in place for other members of the team.
Ensure that all manual under/over payments are valid and correctly calculated and payments raised (if appropriate) on a timely basis
Responsible for the completion of all basic payroll output for allocated payrolls and some higher level activities under the direction of the Payroll or Service Manager.
May be asked to undertake reconciliation of General Ledger postings, raising payment requests for Third Parties, reconciliation of HMRC submissions for compliance reasons and raising of journal requests as a specific role.
May be asked to become a specialist in a particular area such as reporting, salary sacrifice, attachment of earnings etc from time to time as required by the business, based on existing skills or where training has been provided.
Ad hoc tasks deemed appropriate to this level
Essential Skills
5 GCSE's level A-C in English and Math's or Equivalent
Excellent communication and organisational skills
The ability work in a team and build relationships with co-workers
A background in investigating and resolving complex pay queries
Sound understanding of PAYE, National Insurance
Attention to detail
The ability to work flexibly, able to respond to increased pressure of work
A high level knowledge of data-input completion
Ability to prioritise work load
The Ability to Observe personal duty of care in relation to equipment or resources
Experience of accurate data entry and validation of financial information
Desirable Skills
Experience in payroll or finance
NVQ 3 Qualification or equivalent level of experience in Payroll.
Ability to understand, interpret, implement and communicate several complex terms and conditions of service within one organisation
Has an awareness of the law relating to payroll (i.e. employment rights and data protection)
Experience of processing transactions on multi customer payrolls
Standard Health & Safety manual handling skills
The ability to Calculate Statutory and Non statutory deductions accurately and in accordance with the legal and organisational requirements
Previous experience of seeking and suggesting continual process improvements, when identified through daily processingIf you are interested please apply or contact Lauren on (phone number removed)
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