Payroll Officer Location: LondonContract: Temporary (3-months initial) Rate: £24.00 per hour umbrella // £21.63 per hour PAYE inclusive // £19.30 per hour PAYE exclusive Start Date: ASAP *Hybrid Working* Contact: .ukJob DescriptionService Care Solutions are currently recruiting on behalf of a Local Authority in London for a Payroll Office to join the team on a temporary basis. The postholder will support the full payroll function by resolving day-to-day payroll enquiries from employees, managers and third parties and correctly calculating employee gross pay and net pay in accordance with statutory and contractual requirements.This post has the potential to be made permanent if successful in temporary role. Main 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.

CandidateCriteria

Experience of Oracle Payroll systems is essential
Experience in Local Authority Payroll is highly preferred
Strong knowledge of Local Authority payroll legislation and processes
Great communication skills with the ability to work well on own initiative as well as part of a team

If you are interested in the role, or know of anyone who may be, please contact Greg at Service Care Solutions on or email .ukService Care Solutions also offers a £250 referral bonus! So, if you know of anyone who would be perfect for this position and they are placed into work, you will receive £250 for the referral once their probationary period has been completed.