Payroll Specialist

We are working with a local authority in Trafford to find a Payroll Specialist on a permanent basis. 

Salary: £34,834 to £37,336 per annum (Pay Award Pending wef 1 April 2024)

Hybrid: 2 days per week in office. 

The role: 

- Supporting the development of a ‘leading edge’ Shared Service Centre for Partnership members, ensuring  a high performing and customer focused transactional HR, Payroll and Pension service that is continuously improving and seen as best-in-class public sector model.

- Providing a comprehensive payroll control/pension administration function across a number of large, complex organisations.

- Acting as a point of expertise for specialist payroll/pension advice for employees, managers and organisations.

Key Duties: 

- Supporting the Management Team in respect of all matters relating to the delivery of the payroll/pension functions and the achievement of wider shared service goals.

- Providing day-to-day operational management of the activities relating to the payroll/pension functions to ensure effective delivery within legislative and regulatory guidelines and to required deadlines.

- Working across the Shared Service teams to support the development of relevant procedures and documentation relating to the delivery of highly accurate and timely payroll/pension functions; evaluating delivery and providing advice or intervention where required.

- Being up-to-date in respect of relevant national trends, regulations, policy and legislation, providing accurate, expert advice and ensuring that service planning, training and delivery takes these into account.

Experiences required: 

- Associate CIPP or relevant professional membership

- Significant experience of developing and implementing Payroll systems, processes and procedures within a large, complex organisation.

- Experience of working at a control level within a payroll service serving multiple organisations with varying conditions and regulations.

- Experience of effectively planning day-to-day activities and resources to meet customer demand and challenging deadlines

- Experience of system produced payroll procedures and relevant system interfaces and reconciliation procedures with other systems such as Financial Ledger.

If you are interested, or have any questions, please let me know.