Payroll Officer

Eden Brown; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Payroll Officer for a temporary role in Kensington, West London. This position offers a chance to engage with payroll processes, ensuring compliance with statutory and contractual requirements. You'll collaborate closely with Senior Payroll Officers, managing payroll data, and responding to inquiries from employees and managers. This role is perfect for someone with a solid background in payroll management and a keen eye for detail, looking to make a meaningful impact in a supportive environment. If you're ready to take on this challenge, your expertise will be highly valued in this dynamic setting.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of payroll processes and statutory requirements.
• Experience with Oracle software for payroll management.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate payroll processing and compliance with regulations.
• Respond to payroll inquiries and provide guidance to employees.

Skills

Payroll Management

Statutory Compliance

Data Analysis

Oracle Software

Communication Skills

Education

Relevant Payroll Certification

Degree in Finance or Accounting

Tools

Oracle

Job description

Are you in search of a temporary yet fulfilling role? Look no further! We're thrilled to offer an exciting position for our client based in Kensington, West London who are looking to appoint a Payroll Officer for the 3 months ongoing, at the rate of £26.04 per hour umbrella.

Job Responsibilities

1. To have a good understanding of statutory and contractual requirements relating to the payroll, including PAYE Tax, National Insurance, National Minimum Wage, London Living Wage, Local Government Pension Scheme, Teachers Pension Scheme, Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Child-Related Pay, contractual sick pay, and contractual child-related pay.
2. To work with the Senior Payroll Officers in the accurate and timely production of all payrolls and their outputs throughout the payroll processing cycle.
3. Running a range of regular and ad-hoc processes as part of the payroll production cycle, including provisional payslip calculations, and ensuring that changes are implemented to underlying employee data as necessary to maintain accuracy of the payroll.
4. Performing regular reviews of employee data contributing to payroll calculations (e.g. tax codes, NI categories, pension scheme memberships) to ensure that all data sets will flow through to accurate payroll calculations for all employees.
5. To perform the regular daily processes for ensuring that all payroll data for new starters is correctly input into Oracle, for example payment method, bank details, tax code, NI category, pension scheme membership, pay elements, etc.
6. To work with the Recruitment Team and Organisation Structure Team to ensure that starters, movers and leavers are correctly actioned for payroll purposes, and that any anomalies affecting the payroll are identified and corrected prior to payroll finalisation.
7. Handling less complex overpayment casework, ensuring that overpayment recoveries are in place and that employees receive notifications of the intention to make recoveries, issuing invoices where appropriate for any overpaid employee who subsequently leaves without the full recovery being made.
8. To perform a wide range of pay record checking and pay calculations for the pay awards as appropriate providing the Senior Payroll Officers extra resource in business-critical timeframes.
9. Responding in a timely and accurate manner to incoming payroll enquiries from employees and managers, which will predominantly be through the HR Helpdesk but can also be through other channels, e.g. by phone, in meetings, through email, etc.
10. Providing advice and guidance to employees and managers on how to transact in Oracle on anything which impacts the payroll, such as in the submission of expenses and mileage.
11. Reviewing claims submitted by employees for overtime, additional hours, sessional and casual claims, etc., to ensure consistency with the job-related duties and to monitor correct authorisation processes and correct payments.
12. Calculating annual leave purchase requests and arranging follow-up with the claimant and through payroll.

Should your skills match the above please send through your updated CV.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.