Payroll

Purpose of the Role: To provide technical expertise to assist the Payroll Manager in meeting the business’s responsibilities in aspects of management, monitoring and administration of the Personnel & Payroll service. Payroll is a transactional service that sits within the Business Administration function. Working closely with the Employee Service teams, they deliver a high-quality and compliant payroll service, paying approximately 15,000 employees monthly, across 25 employers. The payroll service comprises of 4 functional hubs: Technical, Administration, Pensions and Automation. The Payroll Technical Officer role sits within the Technical Hub to provide an efficient and effective payroll service to employees, managers and colleagues. They also provide payroll services to a number of Academy schools and Trusts, as well as the East Sussex Fire and Rescue service. The payroll service provides an excellent advice service, to support all customers, by answering a variation of queries in respect of payslip information, contractual payments, budgets, and financial postings. Key tasks: 1. Support the payroll manager in the delivery of the 15,000 employee payroll to ensure fully effective and compliant payroll services are delivered that meet legislative, statutory and continuously improving service standards. 2. Ensure consistency and integrity of data is maintained both within SAP & other supporting systems and adhere to GDPR legislation. 3. Support continuous improvement initiatives on payroll processes, identify service improvements, and assist in implementing and progressing these improvements. 4. Carry out extensive user acceptance testing of the payroll system following implementation of software upgrades and annual legislative updates released through support and enhancement packs. 5. Liaise with the systems development team to request configuration changes, having translated contractual policies into technical specifications, and perform extensive user testing of these changes. 6. Perform monthly and annual pre and post payroll reporting, reconciliation and payment generation required by internal and external parties to meet contractual and statutory deadlines – including but not limited to payslips, P45s, P60s, P11ds, BACS files, posting to finance, RTI, auto enrolment, pension scheme service returns and end of year pension returns for schools. 7. Deputise for payroll manager and support admin team with day to day queries. 8. Undertake regular reconciliation of the Government Gateway Dashboard to minimise risks which could lead to financial penalties and damage employer reputations. 9. Maintain expertise and knowledge within the area of Payroll in order to provide support and advice to customers and colleagues, ensuring compliance with statutory obligations, legislation and regulations. 10. Manage the end to end onboarding of new payroll business into the council’s payroll system. 11. Create and maintain department procedures and guidance notes ensuring all are up to date including relevant websites. We endeavour to reply to all applications, however, if you haven`t heard from us within 7 days, you have been unsuccessful with this particular role. You are very welcome to apply to future advertisements placed by Grafters Recruitment Consultants / Grafters Accountancy Personnel