University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to join our award-winning Payroll department at UHB. Based at Regent Court, near Five Ways Island in Birmingham City Centre, we provide payroll services to over 20 Trusts in the UK and have circa 100 staff.
As an ever-expanding department, there are progression opportunities available on a regular basis. We expect our staff to be hard-working, able to meet strict deadlines and work as part of a growing team. You will have responsibility for your own section of work, and after initial training will be expected to manage your own workload.
Payroll is a vital component of the NHS and we embrace the challenges that the complexities of NHS terms and conditions give to us, to ensure our staff are paid accurately and on time.
Main duties of the job
1. Responsible for the data loading/processing of all information received electronically for weekly and monthly payrolls, including:
1. eTAD (Electronic Turnaround Documents)
2. T&A and Absence interface files
3. Allowance and deduction templates
2. Assist in the production of weekly and monthly payroll processes.
3. To run and distribute all payroll reports relating to payroll runs as detailed in the payroll processing control documentation.
4. To run standard and ad-hoc reports as requested using ESR, Discoverer and Business Intelligence.
5. To comply with department procedures and Trust Standing Financial Instructions and Regulations.
6. To provide advice or assistance verbally, face to face or electronically to Colleagues, Managers, Customers and external agencies.
7. To assist in the preparation of weekly and monthly processing timetables for the following tax year.
8. To support the expenses team ensuring expense claims are input accurately to ESR and paid on time.
9. General Payroll processing Responsibilities:
1. To build and maintain relationships with colleagues, staff from Customer organisations, managers and external organisations through effective communication;
2. To assist in providing data for audit and analytical reviews;
3. To review opportunities to develop the service delivery module.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
* Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
* Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job responsibilities
*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Minimum of 5 GCSE's at grade C or above to include Maths and English (E)
* ECDL or equivalent computer skills as a minimum (E)
Experience
* Experience of managing own workload (E)
Additional Criteria
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Excellent customer care skills in promoting the reputation of the payroll function (E)
* Ability to interpret and correctly apply regulations to documents processed (E)
* Ability to provide explanations of actions taken and other information both verbally and in writing and in a professional manner (E)
* Ability to use specialised computerised applications requiring expert knowledge to manipulate and retrieve data (E)
* Ability to use Microsoft Office software to complete existing templates and spreadsheets (E)
* Ability to prioritise workload and meet strict deadlines (E)
* Proven interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships (E)
* Ability to adopt a flexible approach, working on own initiative as well as part of a team (E)
* Excellent telephone manner (E)
* Attention to detail and accuracy (E)
* Ability to work effectively within a team (E)
* Confident, highly motivated and able to use own initiative (E)
* Ability to resolve problems effectively (E)
* Significant attention to detail (E)
* Flexible to meet deadlines when required (E)
* Be able to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service (E)
* Reliable, punctual, patient, pleasant disposition (E)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
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