Payroll Officer

Job Title: Payroll Officer
Starting Salary: £30,559 opportunity to progress to £33,366
Hours: 37.0
Location: Stevenage
Contract Type: Permanent
Directorate: Resources

About the team

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Payroll Team as a Payroll Specialist supporting the delivery of consistent, high quality payroll services to Hertfordshire County Council and several other clients.

This role forms part of an experienced team, who work in a fast-paced environment and are dedicated to delivering the payroll service to approximately 28 000 employees across various companies. You will not only support the delivery of this service but should be proactive in identifying opportunities for process improvements.

About the role

You will provide payroll advice in support of service delivery and resolve complex payroll related queries from both managers and employees.

You will be required to have an up-to-date knowledge of statutory deductions and legislation and are able to understand and communicate information at all levels, ensuring payroll updates are implemented accordingly.

You will also need a high level of understanding and expertise with integrated Payroll applications (SAP desirable) and Microsoft Office applications.

Experience in payroll,

• Including Tax, NI and overpayment calculations.
• Family Leave calculations.
• Sick pay, taking into account statutory guidelines.
• Manual net pay calculations.

About you

Essential Skills:

• A high level of understanding of how HMRC legislation applies to payroll, pensions, and other statutory payments.
• Great attention to detail, ensuring the payroll data is right first time, every time.
• Experience in Payroll related applications.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and time management skills.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel.
• The ability to delve into complex payroll queries and investigations, seeing them through to resolution.
• Experience of providing a range of payroll related advice and guidance across the full range of payroll services to payees and managers.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to carry out complex manual calculations.

Desirable

• A knowledge of Local Government Terms & Conditions would be an advantage.
• SAP is desirable but training will be provided.

This job role is within the Corporate Services, level CORP8 job profile. Please locate this via:

Job profiles - Corporate services

To hear more about this opportunity please contact Jane Hockly, jane.hockley@hertfordshire.gov.uk for an informal discussion about the role.

Interview Date: to be confimred

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How to apply

As part of your application, please upload your most recent CV. Ensure your CV is up to date with your employment history (including any employment gaps), and including any training/qualifications. We encourage you to include examples of where you have demonstrated the requirements/criteria in the advert / job profile to allow the panel to fully recognise your skills and abilities. You will have the opportunity to include a short covering paragraph within your application to give us a little more information about your skills, knowledge, and experiences.

Disability Confident
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and guarantee an interview to anyone disclosing a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.

English Fluency
The ability to converse at ease with members of the public and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for the post (for those whose language is a signed language the provision of a sign language interpreter who speaks English to the necessary standard of fluency will be required). Further information about the legal requirement can be found here.