Payroll Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Officer to join Avon and Somerset Police at their Police Headquarters in Portishead.

This role will be hybrid working (Home and Headquarters) Monday to Friday.

PLEASE NOTE DUE TO POLICE VETTING CRITERIA YOU MUST HAVE BEEN RESIDING WITHIN THE UK CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST 3 YEARS AT TIME OF APPLICATION.

Purpose of the role:-

To assist the Team Leader in ensuring that the functions of the Team are carried out correctly and on time.
Ensuring a responsive and comprehensive service to Clients, providing daily in-put as required to support the delivery of the HR Admin & Payroll function. To supervise HR Assistants working within a larger team delivering an HR & Payroll Service,to the agreed service levels, meeting deadlines, ensuring sound basic advice and administrative support covering a wide range of personnel and payroll issues, is supplied. Ensuring the correct application of all relevant terms and conditions.

Main Responsibilities

Prioritise and authorise processing of documentation and amendment of records relating to the application of terms and conditions for delivery area. Checking, monitoring and actioning reports from the system. Directly accountable for processing information onto the system and ensuring that necessary actions are taken.
Identify and investigate any anomalies and ensure queries are promptly resolved. Provide service in accordance with agreed working practices.
Ensure all transactions are processed/follow up actions carried out in accordance with relevant timescales. Ensure procedures are correctly followed. Check, authorise and correct (including feedback the work of the team. Check exception reports after pay run.
Produce and collate regular and ad hoc reports as required to assist in measuring performance. Respond to a wide range of routine enquiries about employees' pay and conditions of service from staff, pensioners, managers and external agencies.
Support Team leader to advise and support managers by providing calculation of sick pay entitlements. Interpret statutory maternity/paternity/adoption regulations for staff, referring complex cases to Team Leaders for advice. Calculate entitlements and provide advice as necessary. Prepare any related payments.
Calculate redundancy payments, provide pensionable pay figures and verify superannuation records.
Undertake administrative work in relation to relevant pension schemes. Provide advice to relevant individuals in relation to employees who die in service. Liaise with relevant pension providers regarding entitlements.
Prepare emergency payments, advances and amendment to the system as appropriate. Undertake manual calculation of tax, NI, etc. Prepare salary invoices for overpayments and all related payroll adjustments and correspondence.
Undertake project work as requested by Team LeaderEXPERIENCE

a good standard of general education with a minimum of 5 GCSE passes including Maths and English or equivalent through experience.
Knowledge and experience of working within a HR / Payroll services environment and delivering high quality, customer focused services.
Methodical and consistent approach to the organisation of the workload.
Good analytical and problem solving skills.
Thorough understanding and daily usage of ICT systems, word processing and spreadsheet packages and periodic usage of databases is required.
Good time management skills to enable completion of tasks within tight timescales.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Interpersonal skills - the ability to communicate with service users, Clients, outside organisations and other employees.
Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team.

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