Payroll Officer 5278398
| Posting date: | 08 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £20.86 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | per hour PAYE |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 November 2025 |
| Location: | Kensington, London, W8 7NX |
| Company: | Triumph Consultants Ltd |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | K&C 5278398 |
Summary
What's involved with this role:
JOB TITLE: Payroll Officer
REF: K&C 5278398
Pay rate: £20.86 per hour PAYE
Contract Type: Temporary, Anticipated 2 to 3 months, with good chance of becoming permanent for the right candidate
Working Arrangement: assume office based as no hybrid working given
In order to apply for this role you should have previous payroll experience, ideally in a local authority. Oracle experience is also needed.
The role:
On behalf of a local council, we are seeking a Payroll Officer, with experience of using Oracle. Previous Local Authority experience is preferable but not essential.
Key Responsibilities:
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.
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.
Provide an excellent level of customer service to employees, managers, third parties and anyone else who transacts with the payroll service.
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
What the client is looking for:
An understanding of payroll processes, taking into account statutory and non-statutory requirements, and to provide advice and guidance to employees on how their pay is calculated
A good understanding of the components of an employee’s pay and of the range of issues that can impact on an employee’s gross and net pay.
Previous experience working with payroll systems and understanding of processes and pay data
An understanding of pension scheme membership rules and statutory employer pension obligations as they affect payroll production
An understanding of employer obligations regarding payroll outputs for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) and Teachers Pensions (TP).
An understanding of government guidance and best practice in relation to pay, with an awareness of where to check knowledge such as the government website and an interest in guidance and policy.
Ability to perform complex payroll-related numerical calculations.
Good level of proficiency and accuracy in Excel to support the analysis of payroll information.
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Job Ref: K&C 5278398
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