Positive Employment is currently recruiting for a Payroll Officer for our client, a local government organisation in London, Kensington. The successful candidate will be 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. This role is a 3 month initial contract with the possibility to extend. This role is hybrid working.

This post will be available to apply to as a permanent position in the near future, so a good opportunity for a candidate seeking a permanent role subject to a successful recruitment process.

Duties and Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Personal Requirements

• Must have previous payroll experience.
• Previous experience working with payroll systems and understanding of processes and pay data.
• Experience of using Oracle.
• Local Authority experience is preferable but not essential.

Working Hours: 35 hours, 9:00 am - 17:00 pm, Monday to Friday. Pay: £26.04 per hour. Please note this role is within the scope of IR35.