Payroll Team Leader - Payroll Service

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Temporary Payroll Team Leader - Payroll Service
Reference no: Greenwich RQ1186887
Pay rate: £19.80 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 Team Leader is required to be responsible for the efficient running of the Payroll Administrators and their workloads and to contribute to the development and implementation of improvements in the Payroll Service. Maintain knowledge of legislation and policies and how to apply that knowledge on an operational basis. Undertake the most complex transactional work in the Payroll Service and to manage the work of up to 5 payroll administrators and coordinate the workload of the team within strict deadlines.
Key responsibilities:
Deliver the daily operational running of the Council’s Payroll Service’s process and procedures. It is essential to maintain current knowledge of the area of responsibility.
Ensuring that the work of the service is coordinated and delivered in an efficient manner, meeting the strict deadlines of the service. This includes ensuring that over 10,000 staff are paid accurately and on time and the Council meets its statutory requirements including all information returns to HMRC. The total payroll bill is in excess of £200m.
Working to the payroll operations manager undertake effective regular monitoring of transactional activity and recording of this in accordance with the agreed quality standards and respond to any issues highlighted through this to ensure that output is of a high standard and complies with agreed processes, current legislation, best practice and customer service standards.
Undertake the more complex transaction processes within the Payroll Service. Monitoring staff performance in line with set targets and provide feedback.
Manage Payroll Administrators to ensure the efficient and timely completion of Payroll processes related to the, payment and termination of staff within agreed timescales.
Ensure the appropriate levels of authorisations are followed and procedures are maintained within the Service.
Support the Payroll Operations Manager providing feedback on queries and ensuring initial complaints are dealt with in a professional manner.
Be aware of relevant accounting and taxation legislation affecting payroll, and ensure they are being applied correctly in the operational environment.
Ensure awareness of all relevant statutory changes and best practice development.
Ensure irregularities identified are investigated and reported to Corporate Anti-Fraud if appropriate.
Undertake testing as directed by the reporting manager, where there are major changes in legislation/policy/system upgrades ensuring everything is fully tested. Support the Payroll Operations Manager in ensuring that processes and procedures in place mean the Service achieves best practice.
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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:
Either a qualification or equivalent proven experience in a Payroll Department.
Experience:
Experience of dealing with sensitive and contentious cases including complaints.
Supervisory/management experience within a payroll operational team, including supervision/management of staff, payroll administration processing, including all variety of payments, statutory, legislator including all calculations and checking.
Experience of working with a wide range of external organisations and internal departments in respect of Payroll administration desirable.
Experience of using the iTrent payroll system desirable.
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Knowledge:
Extensive knowledge and understanding of Payroll Legislation, HMRC and data protection requirements.
Skills & Abilities:
Excellent numeracy, literacy and IT skills including Microsoft office.
Ability to plan and prioritise own and others workload to ensure an effective and efficient Payroll Service, delivering to key operational and legislative deadlines without compromising accuracy.
Excellent communication skills, oral and written, dealing with a diverse range of stakeholders.
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 RQ1186887
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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