HR - Payroll Operations Officer
37.00 hours per week
Salary £24,702 - £27,334
Dorchester, combined with home-working
• Do you have good ICT skills?
• Do you have a high degree of attention to detail?
• Are you a strong team player but also able to manage your own workload?
• Would you like to be part of a team dedicated to working closely with our colleagues in other teams and to supporting our customers?
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with the ability to work under pressure to join the Payroll Operations team and support the HR and Payroll service to Dorset Council, schools and external customers. You will have the opportunity to develop your skills and experience, including problem solving, collaborating with others and providing guidance and support.
What you will be doing
The Payroll Operations team undertake a wide variety of functions including;
• processing payments to employees, pensioners, and external organisations
• providing detailed financial information to customers
• creating and sending monthly and annual financial returns and forms such as statutory returns to HMRC and payslips & P60s to employees and pensioners
You will support members of the Payroll Operations team in ensuring the timely processing of multiple payrolls for employees and pensioners and also provide training where necessary to existing and new members of staff.
It will often be necessary to work to tight deadlines while also maintaining high standards of customer service to both internal and external customers of the service.
You will be required to manage work schedules for the team, maintain a thorough understanding of the requirements of all existing and new customers, undertake key roles in project work such as migrations of payrolls and legislative changes and be able to prioritise and respond to unscheduled requests for work.
This role is based at County Hall in Dorchester, but you may be required/able to work remotely (. from home). We will discuss this with you during the recruitment process.
About you
To be successful in this role, you will ideally have had experience of service delivery and systems in a payroll or related environment and be capable of working to multiple deadlines with a high degree of accuracy.
You will also need to possess excellent ICT skills and have the ability to prioritise your own workload and also those of other members of the team.
Additional information
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We cannot accept CVs in the place of an application form as we need the same range of information from all our candidates.
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