Job Description

Are you in search of a temporary yet fulfilling role? Look no further! We're thrilled to offer an exciting position for our client based in Kensington, West London who are looking to appoint a Payroll Officer for the 3 months ongoing, at the rate of 26.04 per hour umbrella

Job 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.

• To work with the Senior Payroll Officers in the accurate and timely production of all payrolls and their outputs throughout the payroll processing cycle.

• Running a range of regular and ad-hoc processes as part of the payroll production cycle, including provisional payslip calculations, and ensuring that changes are implemented to underlying employee data as necessary to maintain accuracy of the payroll.

• Performing regular reviews of employee data contributing to payroll calculations (e.g. tax codes, NI categories, pension scheme memberships) to ensure that all data sets will flow through to accurate payroll calculations for all employees.

• 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.

• To work with the Recruitment Team and Organisation Structure Team to ensure that starters, movers and leavers are correctly actioned for payroll purposes, and that any anomalies affecting the payroll are identified and corrected prior to payroll finalisation.

• 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.
• To perform a wide range of pay record checking and pay calculations for the pay awards as appropriate providing the Senior Payroll Officers extra resource in business-critical timeframes.

• Responding in a timely and accurate manner to incoming payroll enquiries from employees and managers, which will predominantly be through the HR Helpdesk but can also be through other channels, e.g. by phone, in meetings, through email, etc.

• Providing advice and guidance to employees and managers on how to transact in Oracle on anything which impacts the payroll, such as in the submission of expenses and mileage.

• Reviewing claims submitted by employees for overtime, additional hours, sessional and casual claims, etc., to ensure consistency with the job-related duties and to monitor correct authorisation processes and correct payments.
• Calculating annual leave purchase requests and arranging follow-up with the claimant and through payroll

Should your skills match the above please send through your updated CV.

Eden Brown is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. Eden Brown Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.