Payroll Administrator - Payroll Service

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Temporary Payroll Administrator - Payroll Service
Reference no: Greenwich RQ1186876
Pay rate: £14.04 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: WOOLWICH, London
Office based role
A Payroll Administrator is required to support an area of the Payroll Service working to ensure the team operates the processes and procedures required to efficiently deliver the Payroll Services. To assist with the operational aspects of the Council’s Payroll Service’s process and procedures and work with colleagues across the Council and external bodies to ensure that the processes within the Service are operated in a manner that they are compliant with legislation and Council policy and deliver the service in the most efficient manner. To contribute to ensuring that over 10,000 staff are paid (in excess of £200m) accurately and in a timely manner.
Key responsibilities:
Support the service undertaking a range of administrative activities in the day to day operation of the Service. The nature of work being undertaken will include the following:
Scanning of records into staff personal files.
General administrative support to the section including photocopying, filing, the collection and delivery of documents, and the sorting of documents.
Opening of all post that is sent to payroll.
Responsible for the request and return of files from the off-site storage facility including the maintenance of boxes and resolution of any associated issues.
Create records on the Payroll System for new starters, leavers and variations and to maintain and revise employee as necessary, liaising with relevant department or organisations as appropriate.
Process data for the adjustment of details that affect pay and statutory deductions.
Undertake any bulk administration duties as required.
Check reports and prepare corrective action as directed.
6Ensure that paperwork is completed and checked correctly for Audit purposes. Ensure that all documents are stored correctly and in a timely manner.
Act as a first point of contact for Payroll, responding to correspondence, telephone, electronic mail and queries from customers.
Deal with basic payroll enquiries, referring more complex matters to the Payroll Team Leader and to provide support and advice to employees on a range of pay related issues.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Qualifications:
GCSE level with grades C or above in Maths and English or experience of working in a payroll environment.
Experience:
Experience of dealing with customers.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent numeracy skills to enable straightforward accurate calculations to be undertaken.
Excellent written and oral communication skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team ensuring key tasks are completed within specified deadlines.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.
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Job Ref: Greenwich RQ1186876
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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