Payroll Specialist

The Role

• Process monthly payrolls, including overtime, promotions, and allowances, ensuring strict deadlines are met.
• Assist the Employee Support Manager with HR/payroll-related projects and identify/rectify payroll discrepancies.
• Maintain accurate employee data in HR systems and ensure prompt processing of transactions, including retrieving legacy payroll data.
• Handle ad hoc payroll/HR queries and process all HMRC transactions, ensuring statutory/voluntary deductions are reconciled and paid.
• Maintain accurate records of employee absences and support colleagues with training and knowledge sharing.
• Provide customer support for payroll, employee relations, recruitment, pensions, and more, ensuring high service quality and timely responses.
• Maintain and update employee records, process resignations and special leave, and offer administrative support for benefits and salary schemes.
• Administer new employee information for payroll, pensions, and other departments, while supporting additional HR-related administrative tasks as needed.

The Person

As the successful candidate you will have the following background and experience:

Essential:

By the closing date for applications candidates must have:

• A minimum of five GCSEs, Grade C or above (to include English Language and Maths), or equivalent
• A minimum of two years' experience directly processing payroll for 250+ employees. Experience should include inputting and processing payrolls to strict deadlines;
• A minimum of two years' experience working within a high-volume HR function including:
• Providing advice and support to employees on terms and conditions of employment, HR/Payroll policies and procedures and statutory payments.
• Liaising with external stakeholders - HMRC, Pensions bodies, Trade unions, Courts, systems providers, professional services providers;
• Liaising with internal stakeholders - HR advisors / managers, operational departments, Finance and other internal departments;
• Experience using Oracle HR/Payroll modules or similar systems.

Desirable:

• Experience of using reporting tools (e.g. Business Objects, OBIEE);
• Working knowledge of Oracle HR/Payroll or similar HR and Payroll modules with experience of testing system changes.
• Hold CIPP Year One.

What's in it for you?:

• Generous annual leave
• A competitive salary
• The opportunity to work for a fantastic organisation at the forefront of public sector

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity please send an up to date CV via the link provided or contact Meghan Hamilton, Specialist Recruitment Consultant on 02896935508 or on email at m.hamilton@mcsgroup.jobs.

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