Senior Payroll Officer

About Our Client

You will be working for a well known Local Government Organisation based in London.

Job Description

The main duties for the role are as followed:

• 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
• To support and test upgrades, system developments and statutory changes including user acceptance testing and ensuring user training requirements are met.
• To ensure system background data and system set up is maintained in line with the Council's requirements and to provide consultation to key stake holders on all payroll systems.
• To 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 Employee and manager self service
• and reporting to compliance any errors by employees and managers alike
• assisting with resolution to ensure correct pay is delivered.
• Reviewing all contract changes for renewal or adjustment to prevent overpayment or underpayment - and liaising with line managers where necessary
• Preparing and raising off cycle and Chaps payments in accordance with Brent payroll policy and process.
• Provide support on deployment and training on new systems, including testing of new systems
• Work closely with the payroll manager to support effective working relationships, acting as an effective ambassador and advocate with external organisations

The Successful Applicant

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

• 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
• Good understanding of data protection and security.
• Delivering payroll services in a large organisation
• Produce, dispatch and file documentation accurately
• Record manual information accurately and effectively
• Undertake simple calculations accurately and effectively

What's on Offer

You will be offered an immediate start temporary contract within a Local Governement Organisation.