Senior Payroll Officer

Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Senior Payroll Officer for our client a local government organisation in Brent.

The successful candidate will assist and lead in some instances in end to end processes of the organisation’s payroll operations, ensuring that each stage of the payroll process is carried out efficiently, whilst complying with statutory regulations and policy. Provide advice to staff on occupational pension schemes.

This is initially a 3 month contract with the possibility to extend after that date. This role is hybrid working.

Duties and Responsibilities but not limited to:

• Support the Payroll compliance officer in running the payroll - ensuring the delivery of a high quality, responsive and efficient payroll service.
• Reconcile all payroll payments to the general ledger and suggest adjustments to control accounts as appropriate - calculate and verify all statutory payment calculations and identify system anomalies in calculations and reporting where necessary.
• Support and test upgrades, system developments and statutory changes including user acceptance testing and ensuring user training requirements are met.
• Ensure system background data and system set up is maintained in line with the organisation's requirements and to provide consultation to key stake holders on all payroll systems.
• Undertake quality assurance checks and identify service issues arising from analysis of the causes of self service payroll entry errors, complaints and working practices and develop proposals and plans for addressing and improving these.
• Reconciling overpayments of salaries to staff and leavers and reporting to the payroll manager as necessary.
• Responsible for review of Oracle timecard entries and production relevant to Data Loaders for payment - ensuring accuracy in time claimed according to Brent’s T&C’s of employment.
• Production of Net Pay Variance reports across payrolls for checking before payment.
• Reviewing all contract changes for renewal or adjustment to prevent overpayment or underpayment - and liaising with line managers where necessary.

Personal Requirements:

• Ability to accurately input and retrieve information in specialist systems.
• Detailed knowledge of payroll systems, taxation and national insurance rules.
• Substantial experience in using a complex computerised payroll systems in a similar sized organisation involving all aspects of payroll.
• Payroll expert with demonstrable Local Government experience.
• Pension scheme payroll administration experience.
• Delivering payroll services in a large organisation.

Working Hours: 36hrs / 9:00am - 17:00pm / Monday to Friday

Pay: £25.44 p/h

Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.