Payroll Officer

What's involved with this role:
Temporary Payroll Officer
Reference no: AFC TCL RQ1201469
Pay rate: £14.03 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: WATFORD, Hertfordshire
Currently remote working, home based
A Payroll Officer is required to deliver a confidential, accurate, professional and effective payroll service within agreed timelines, ensuring compliance with internal policies, procedures, statutory regulations and third-party requirements. Experience working with iTrent is essential and experience of working with Oracle systems.
Key responsibilities:
Check and update an integrated eHR/payroll database, to effect changes to salary, other payroll related data, including statutory and collective changes and to review staff expense claim forms and ensure appropriate receipts are provided consistent with expenses policy and HMRC regulations, taking remedial action if required. Through these tasks, to ensure existing and new staff are paid in accordance with the terms of employment and on time.
Process statutory notifications and payments (e.g. SMP, SSP), voluntary deductions, third party payments and occupational entitlements, ensuring accuracy of calculations. In addition, to administer accurate and timely changes to pension contributions consistent with policies and auto-enrolment legislation.
Communicate verbally and in writing, always ensuring professional courtesy and application of values, with a view to achieving a satisfactory conclusion through the provision of clear factual explanations to both internal staff and external bodies (e.g. HMRC).
Work to agreed service standards and maintain clear audit trails of remedial actions taken and changes made. This can include responses to solicitors, financial institutions, social security enquirers and any escalated enquiries from other internal teams.
Apply internal control procedures, checking system generated reports to ensure the integrity of submitted changes to the payroll and ensure that significant variations are followed through and corrective action taken to avoid under/overpayments. To calculate and resolve complex overpayment incidents.
Ensure the correct adherence with TUPE scheme rules and other implications such as maternity differences and TUPE pension legislation. This includes manual calculations to ensure that accurate payments are made each month.
Take part in HR testing routines ensuring the correct updates to systems are applied for software upgrades and patches prior to the release in a live environment. Taking forward system improvement changes, outlining the specification, testing and seeing it through to implementation.
Check and action requests for non-standard payments to leavers, ensuring the recovery of any outstanding sums and generate and issue P45’s. Support year end routines, e.g. generation and issue of P60’s, P11D’s.
Upload new starters and leavers to the My Benefits site and to contribute to promotion and uitilisation of benefits package. To input third party payments (e.g. Childcare Vouchers) data every month, ensuring appropriate authorisation is obtained, calculated correctly to abide by the relevant third party payment guidelines and submit all data to the Finance department to meet submission dates.
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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:
CIPP National Payroll Certificate or equivalent work related experience.
Experience:
Experience working with iTrent essential.
Experience working with Oracle systems.
Previous work experience, in particular gained within a financial environment. Experience of working in Payroll and with Payroll systems.
Experience of working methodically and in a structured way to deliver an efficient transactional payroll service.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge:
Sound knowledge of payroll processes, including income Tax and National Insurance and Pension Scheme(s) deductions from pay.
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent customer service skills with proven ability to communicate effectively (both written and verbal), in particular when resolving complaints and other matters
Excellent analytical numeracy skills with the ability to interpret and summarise complex data.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite) in particular Excel to advance level.
Excellent team player with ability to work effectively to pre-determined timeline.
***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: AFC TCL RQ1201469
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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