Finance & Payroll Officer, Grade V

Hollybank Trustees Ltd; Leinster; Hybrid; EUR 53,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Cheeverstown is seeking a Finance professional to support payroll and time and attendance functions within the Trust’s Finance Department. The role focuses on collating data for monthly payroll runs, maintaining TimePoint data, and ensuring payroll costs are accurately captured and reported.

The position offers hybrid working options with a Dublin site and probationary office-based start. The successful candidate will need hands-on experience with Time and Attendance systems, strong analytical

Qualifications

• Hands on experience of Time and Attendance/ clocking systems (Timepoint).
• Working knowledge of data driven payroll environments integrated with Time and Attendance systems.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills and ability to collaborate to drive payroll/financial process improvements.
• Public Sector/ Healthcare experience is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Prepare monthly payrolls in coordination with Payroll team.
• Maintain TimePoint Time and Attendance data and ensure accuracy for payroll.
• Review payroll implications of issued notices and ensure compliance.
• Act as data controller for payroll-related datasets and generate reports.
• Address staff queries related to payroll and social welfare/revenue.
• Assist with general accounting duties and interdepartmental finance projects.

Skills

Time and Attendance systems

Payroll data integration

Analytical skills

Communication

Public Sector experience

Tools

TimePoint

Job description

Location: Hybrid / Dublin, Ireland
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Accounting & Finance | Finance
Annual Salary range:from € 52,758.00 to € 63,046.00

“Enabling people with an intellectual disability to have full and meaningful lives through quality person-centred services in partnership with families”

Cheeverstown is a voluntary organisation, regulated by the Health Information & Quality Authority (HIQA).

We provide a wide range of person-centred services, including residential, respite, and day services to almost 400 adults with an intellectual disability in the south Dublin area.

Role Description

The Finance Department works in partnership with our service colleagues to provide strategic and operational financial support and advice in achieving the organisational goals of providing high quality, support services.

This is a varied role with primary responsibility to support the payroll function whilst also contributing to other key functions of the Finance team.

The post holder must demonstrate an excellent ability to work collaboratively with colleagues across the organisation (including Operations/ Administration/ People and Culture department/ Rostering) to enhance systems and processes to help drive improvement in payroll and financial processes.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Primary area of responsibility – Time and Attendance & Payroll (Primary Responsibility)

• Working closely with Payroll Supervisor on preparation of monthly payrolls and submission of same to Financial Controller for payment.
• Maintenance of up to date payroll information and ongoing monitoring of Time Attendance and Management System (TimePoint) to ensure that systems linked to Payroll have accurate data to support payroll processes.
• Review newly issued HSE circulars and ensure(along with Payroll Supervisor) that payroll impacts are understood and captured in our processes.
• Become an expert user/ data controller of the TimePoint Time and Attendance system, with particular responsibility/ focus on how the system informs monthly payroll data (re basic pay/ overtime/ additional hours/ premiums/ etc.) and ensure systems are capturing time & payroll costs accurately.
• Liaising with relevant Returning Officers/ managers/ rostering department toproactively resolve queries and ensure returns are submitted in accordance with deadlines, sign off, etc.
• Responsible for maintaining and manipulating large/ complex data sets in excel and maintaining reports on same.
• Review/ report on payrolls costs and identify trends/ unusual patterns and advise Payroll Supervisor/ Financial Controller as appropriate.
• Ensure that all payroll procedures are followed and deadlines adhered to.
• Cross cover within Payroll department including administration of full payroll cycle including payroll submissions.
• Deal promptly with queries arising from staff and Social Welfare/ Revenue.

Other duties (Key Part of role)

• Generation of reports and information from the systems for management/ colleagues/ internal/ external audit as required.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and assist in general accounting duties/ projects across the Finance department as required.
• Participate in training and upskilling as required in order to further enhance and meet the growing demands/ requirements of the role.
• Take responsibility and ownership of Policies and Procedures in your area.

Quality

• To support the full realisation of Cheeverstown Strategic Plan.
• To be an active contributor and participant in service improvements.

*The above is given as a broad range of duties and is not intended to be a complete description of all tasks.

**Flexibility is required in terms of work location, hours and remote working as per HSE Blended Working Policy.

SKILLS/ EXPERIENCE

• Hands on experience of Time and Attendance/ clocking systems (i.e. Timepoint)
• Working knowledge and experience in a data driven Payroll environment that is integrated with Time and Attendance systems
• Excellent analytical and communication skills along with ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to help drive improvements and in payroll and financial processes.
• Public Sector/ Healthcare experience (desirable but not essential)

This role is 100% office-based during the probationary period. Upon successful completion of probation, there will be the option to work on a hybrid basis, with up to 1 day per week working remotely, subject to business requirements

Interview Dates

Interviews are expected to be held during the week commencing 28 September 2026.