Pay and Benefit Officer

Leicester City Council; Leicester; Hybrid; GBP 17,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Transit discounts

Training opportunities

Job summary

Leicester City Council is seeking a Payroll Assistant to join the Pay and Benefits team. This part-time role processes changes to staff records, runs monthly payrolls and handles queries, ensuring accurate pay in line with contracts.

The post is 22.5 hours per week, permanent, hybrid with two days in City Hall and remote the rest, and offers generous annual leave and access to the Local Government Pension Scheme as part of a supportive council team.

Qualifications

• Experience of large-scale payroll processing, preferably within Local Government.
• Ability to work as part of a team to deliver a high-quality service.
• Strong attention to detail and initiative in resolving queries.

Responsibilities

• Process changes to employee records (hours, salary, positions) to ensure staff are paid per contracts.
• Liaise daily with team via Teams and generic email accounts.
• Process monthly payrolls and respond to phone/email queries with guidance on terms and conditions of employment.

Skills

Payroll processing

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Job description

Reference: REQ8006

Description: Part Time / 22.5 Hours Per Week / Permanent

Play a key role in ensuring employees of Leicester City Council are paid accurately and on time. The Pay and Benefits team are made up of professional, highly skilled officers who are dedicated to supporting managers and employees with pay and pension queries. We action statutory and voluntary deductions as well as employee benefits for new starters, leavers, and process contract changes. Working in friendly and supportive team, you'll receive an initial period of training and be supported by the Team Leader. This is a part time, permanent post working 22.5 hours per week. This role is based at City Hall, Leicester with a Hybrid working agreement of two days office-based, remainder remote.

What You'll Be Doing

Day to day you'll process changes to employee records including changing hours, salary, and positions to ensure staff are paid in accordance with their contracts. Working collaboratively within a small team of 9 officers, you'll liaise daily via teams and generic email accounts. You'll process monthly payrolls to ensure all work is managed correctly so all employees are paid correctly. You'll investigate and respond to queries received via phone or emails, providing sound advice in respect of terms and conditions of employment e.g., maternity/paternity/adoptions leave entitlement.

What You'll Need

You'll have experience of large-scale payroll processing, preferably within Local Government, although full training will be provided. A team player, you'll be enthusiastic to working within a team to ensure a high quality and efficient service is provided to members of the public, external organisations as well as employees and managers. A problem solver, with good attention to detail, you'll be able to use your own initiative to resolve queries and ensure accurate payroll records are maintained. Highly organised, you'll manage your own workload, prioritise tasks to meet monthly deadlines.

What We Can Offer You

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can lookforward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generousannual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexibleworking. We'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of trainingand development opportunities. In addition, you can choose fromseveralflexible benefits,including discounts on city buses and trains. Foran illustrative value of your benefits package,take a look at ourbenefits calculator.

Join Us

We're committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That's why we've designed ourrecruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you.We'll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with yourapplication,take a look at the 'our approach to recruitment' page. Interviews / Assessments will take place on week commencing 14th of September

Region: Central

Location: Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices

Salary: *GBP*17,390 - *GBP*18,864 Per Year

Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): *GBP*25,723.55

Contractual hours: 22.5

Basis: Part time,