Payroll Support Officer

Payroll Support Officer
Location: London
Contract: Temporary (3-months initial)
Rate: £22-25 per hour
Start Date: ASAP
Hybrid Working

Job Description
Service Care Solutions are currently recruiting on behalf of a Local Authority in London for a Payroll Support Officer to join the team on a temporary basis. The postholder will be responsible for supporting the administrative duties for the payroll of 16,000 staff, pensions and teachers.

Main Responsibilities

1. Provide high quality and timely advice and guidance to customers on a wide range of payroll related matters ensuring confidentiality is maintained and assisting in the resolution of payroll related problems and enquiries escalating any problems that might arise, where appropriate.
2. Prioritise workload, often against conflicting deadlines, circumstances and expectations, so that all areas of the work are given due priority and none are neglected.
3. Input accurately to the payroll related database to ensure that its integrity is maintained.
4. Assist in the development, maintenance and utilisation of the Directorate's management information systems.
5. Responsible for the processing of payments for professional fees, eye tests, long service awards, overtime and car mileage claim forms, etc.

Candidate Criteria

1. Experience of working within a Local Government payroll environment is highly preferred.
2. Experience of administering basic requests and resolving system related queries in a Payroll environment.
3. Experience of using ResourceLink would be highly beneficial.
4. Great communication skills with the ability to work well on own initiative as well as part of a team.

If you are interested in the role, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Greg at Service Care Solutions on or email .