Payroll Team Leader/Admin – Finance
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £19.80 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Woolwich, Greenwich, SE186HQ |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | Greenwich RQ1252713 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
Temporary Payroll Team Leader/Admin – Finance
Job Ref: Greenwich RQ1252713
Pay Rate: £19.80 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday to Friday, normal working hours
Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months
City: Woolwich, Greenwich
Candidate must be free to start immediately. For exceptional candidates the salary may be slightly negotiable but supplier must state expected salary on CV.
This post will be responsible for the efficient running of the Payroll Administrators and their workloads. Undertake the most complex transactional work in the Payroll Service to manage the work of up to 5 payroll administrators and to co-ordinate the workload of the team within strict deadlines.
Key Responsibilities:
Deliver the daily operational running of the Council’s Payroll Service’s process and procedures. It is essential that they maintain current knowledge of the area of responsibility.
Work with colleagues across the Council and external bodies to ensure that the systems and processes within the Service are operated in a manner that they are compliant with legislation and Council policy and deliver the service in the most efficient manner.
Be responsible for ensuring that the work of the service is coordinated and delivered in an efficient manner, meeting the strict deadlines of the service. This includes ensuring that over 10,000 staff are paid accurately and on time and the Council meets its statutory requirements including all information returns to HMRC. The total payroll bill is in excess of £200m.
Working to the payroll operations manager undertake effective regular monitoring of transactional activity and recording of this in accordance with the agreed quality standards and respond to any issues highlighted through this to ensure that output is of a high standard and complies with agreed processes, current legislation, best practice and customer service standards.
Undertake the more complex transaction processes within the Payroll Service. Monitoring staff performance in line with set targets and provide feedback.
Manage Payroll Administrators to ensure the efficient and timely completion of Payroll processes related to the, payment and termination of staff within agreed timescales.
Ensure the appropriate levels of authorisations are followed and procedures are maintained within the Service.
Support the Payroll Operations Manager providing feedback on queries and ensuring initial complaints are dealt with in a professional manner.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Unless the DBS requirement stated above is for a Basic Disclosure, your DBS must be either through us or be accompanied by a subscription to the DBS updating service.
Qualifications:
Educated to GCSE Standard (or equivalent), including passes in English and Maths
Skills & Experience:
Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation.
Supervisory/Management experience within a payroll operational team, including supervision/management of staff, payroll administration processing, including all variety of payments, statutory, legislator including all calculations and checking.
Experience of dealing with sensitive and contentious cases including complaints.
Working with a wide range of external organisations and internal departments in respect of Payroll administration.
Experience of using the iTrent payroll system.
Excellent Communication skills, oral and written, dealing with a diverse range of stakeholders.
Ability to plan and prioritise own and others workload to ensure an effective and efficient payroll service, delivering to key operational and legislative deadlines without compromising accuracy.
Extensive knowledge and understanding of Payroll Legislation, HMRC and data protection requirements with either a qualification or equivalent proven experience in a Payroll Department.
Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages or equivalent (e.g. G Suite).
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Job Ref: Greenwich RQ1252713
Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.
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