Payroll Officer/Admin – Financial Services

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Temporary Payroll Officer/Admin – Financial Services
Job Ref: AFC RQ1303368
Pay Rate: £14.03 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: Cardiff, West Glamorgan
The purpose of the role is 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.
Key Responsibilities:
Checking and updating 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 Action for Children’s 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 the policies and auto-enrolment legislation.
Communicate (verbally and in writing), always ensuring professional courtesy 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 maintaining 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 ensuring 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.
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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.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
CIPP national payroll certificate or equivalent work related experience.
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Previous work experience, in particular gained within a financial environment.
Working methodically and in a structured way to deliver an efficient transactional payroll service.
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.
Excellent team player with ability to work effectively to pre-determined timeline.
Previous work experience, in particular gained within a financial environment.
Working methodically and in a structured way to deliver an efficient transactional payroll service.
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.
Excellent team player with ability to work effectively to pre-determined timeline.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: AFC RQ1303368
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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