Senior Payroll Officer

Interim Senior Payroll Officer K&C URGENT START

Please do not apply for this role unless your CV meets the following general requirements, listed below:

• You must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK.
• For office based and hybrid roles, your commute to the place of work must be less than 1 hour.
• This is a temporary role, initially 2-3 months, with potential to go permanent.

Key Requirements:

• Detailed knowledge and experience of payroll operations, and the ability to provide advice and guidance on it to a wide variety of people.
• An understanding of the legal, regulatory, and employer-specific obligations of employers in the management of a local authority payroll service and the ability to ensure this is reflected in processes and operational delivery.
• Understanding of the underlying payroll information technologies and the interdependencies between HR data and the payroll outputs.
• Strong analytical skills covering numerical and non-numerical information from a wide variety of sources, with the ability to interpret data in support of the delivery of the payroll service.
• High level of proficiency and accuracy in Excel to support the analysis of payroll information.
• Extensive experience with Oracle payroll systems.

The purpose of the role is to plan and manage the day-to-day work of the Payroll Team to ensure that all employees are paid accurately and on time and in accordance with statutory, regulatory, and internal requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage each payroll production cycle from beginning to end, ensuring all inputs are checked and all anomaly reports and other outputs are checked and resolved prior to finalisation according to the production schedules.
• Manage the reconciliation and production of all payroll outputs to internal service areas and external third parties, which includes outputs to the General Ledger, Pensions providers, statutory bodies, courts, and voluntary contribution bodies.
• Ensure that all internal processes are followed correctly by the Payroll Team and that any changes to existing processes are devised, reviewed, and appropriately consulted upon prior to implementation.
• Work with schools and other connected education establishments in the monthly collection, reconciliation, monitoring, and transmission of pension returns for Teachers Pensions and the London Pensions Fund Authority, and to ensure that any employer forms connected to this are completed accurately.
• Ensure that all outputs from each payroll cycle (e.g., His Majesty's Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), Teachers Pensions, Payslips, P45s) are valid and have been checked for accuracy and completeness prior to onward distribution.