Payroll Officer

Tempting Recruitment; London; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A local authority in Greenwich seeks a Payroll Officer for a temporary role with the potential for permanency. The position involves managing payroll inquiries, ensuring accurate pay calculations, and providing exceptional service to staff while meeting statutory requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years experience in a Payroll Officer role or equivalent.
• Familiarity with Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and Teachers Pensions (TP).

Responsibilities

• Resolve payroll inquiries from employees and third parties.
• Calculate employee gross and net pay accurately.
• Input payroll data properly into Oracle.

Skills

Customer Service

Payroll Processing

Oracle

Job description

02nd July, 2025

Are you eager to land a brand new role? Our client, a busy local authority in Greenwich. Are looking for a Payroll Officer to join their organisation.
Job Role: Payroll Officer
Temporary or Permanent: Temp
Possible End Date: Until October 2025 (possible extension)
Number of Positions: 2 positions
Location: Greenwich
Office Based/Hybrid: TBC
Rate of Pay: £26 p/h umbrella
Short Brief/Requirement:
We would like applicants with experience of using Oracle.
Local Authority experience is preferable but not essential.
This post will be available to apply to as a permanent position in the near future so a good opportunity for a candidate seeking a permanent role subject to a successful recruitment process.

Purpose:

• To resolve day-to-day payroll enquiries originating from employees, managers and third parties, in accordance with the agreed timescales, and to ensure that this feeds back into correct payroll transactions.
• To be responsible for correctly calculating employee gross pay and net pay in accordance with statutory and contractual requirements, ensuring that all permanent and temporary transactions are correctly processed on time, and that all anomalies are investigated and corrected prior to payroll finalisation.
• To provide an excellent level of customer service to employees, managers, third parties and anyone else who transacts with the payroll service
• To provide advice and guidance to employees, managers and third parties on payroll procedures, general matters associated with income tax, National Insurance and statutory and contractual pay entitlements, and local requirements in respect of pay.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• Actioning instructions received from third parties in respect of voluntary deductions, such as pension additional voluntary contributions (AVCs) and additional pension contributions (APCs), union memberships, medical/dental insurance, salary sacrifice schemes for bicycles, and charity deductions.
• 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.

Job Requirements:

• Previous experience working within a local authority or a similar organisation.
• At least 2 years experience within a Payroll Officer role or equivalent.
• Must have previous payroll experience.
• An understanding of employer obligations regarding payroll outputs for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and Teachers Pensions (TP).

Please be advised that only candidates that have the specific skills and experiences required for this role will be shortlisted and submitted to our client for review.