Payroll Assistant Team Leader
| Posting date: | 03 June 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 5393 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Room 300, County Hall Glenfield, Leicestershire, LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £27,717 - £30,066 per annum (pay award pending)
Working Hours: 37
Contract Type: Fixed Term
Closing Date: 15th June 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
Do you enjoy a challenge?
Do you enjoy unpicking problems and finding solutions?
About the Role
The Employee Service Centre (ESC) is looking to appoint a number of Assistant Team Leaders to support the busy payroll teams. An Assistant Team Leader will support the payroll team that pays the employees of Leicestershire County Council, and another will support the payroll control team. This team focuses on running the background processes that ensure that everyone gets paid and the books balance.
Forming part of East Midlands Shared Services (EMSS), the ESC is a dynamic and fast-paced service providing transactional Payroll and HR Administration services for our partners, Nottingham City Council & Leicestershire County Council, along with some external customers. Here at EMSS, no two days are the same, as there is always something new to dive into or focus on to make a difference!
As an Assistant Team Leader, you will have a varied role. You will support with the day to day running of the team, you will get involved in the more complex queries and you will complete testing, to name just a few activities. Everything that you do will help shape your team.
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About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Have NVQ 3 level qualification in a relevant subject or equivalent or relevant experience.
- Have knowledge or experience of using Oracle ERP system or similar HR/Payroll system
- Have knowledge of working with external customers and understand the importance of customer service.
- Be able to prioritise and meet deadlines by planning and utilising organisational skills.
- Be competent in the use of ICT and Microsoft systems, whilst also demonstrating strong Excel knowledge and skills.
- Be good with numbers, have knowledge or experience in dealing with reconciliation of accounts and costing structures or strong payroll knowledge.
- Be able to utilise continuous improvement methods and techniques to ensure that the customer journey is consistently improved.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
The ESC currently has a variety of opportunities with both permanent and temporary contracts available and the available posts can be full or part time. Please indicate on your supporting statement what your preference is.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Lucy Jeffs – lucy.jeffs@emss.org.uk
Victoria Kirk – Victoria.kirk@emss.org.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on 'Apply Now'. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Employee Service Centre: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
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