Payroll Administrator

Job Description

To input employee payroll, travel and subsistence data to the payroll system, processing the Council’s 6 payrolls which produce over 62,000 payslips per year. Working within a team structure where workloads rotate according to priorities and responsibilities as allocated, this includes all associated payroll and admin tasks, applying 5 different terms and conditions and operating 2 different pension schemes.

Requirements

Prepares, verifies and inputs data to appropriate systems

Manual pay calculations

Processing and reconciliation of pay runs

Reconciliation of payroll control accounts

Remittances to Unions, AVC providers and other third parties

Process over/under payments

Operate the Local Government and Teachers pension schemes

Operate salary sacrifice schemes implemented by the Council

Process and operate pensioner payroll

Handle various enquiries both written and verbal

To provide training to staff

The Individual

• Experience of working within a finance section
• A high level of IT literacy with competence in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Understanding of finance control and administration
• Effective numerical skills
• Finance/Administration HNC qualification
• Payroll qualification e.g. IPPM or Payroll Alliance (if not already held, must be willing to undertake qualification within 3 years)
• Procedural skills
• Good organisational skills
• Knowledge of payroll processes and statutory regulations
• A flexible approach to new working practices and technology and ability to implement new procedures
• Ability to switch between tasks easily
• To work on own initiative when required to specified deadlines
• Analytical and research skills
• Able to maintain confidentiality.
• Able to work as part of a team and using own initiative.
• Very good communicator – verbal and written
• Work under pressure to tight deadlines
• Ability to work in a open plan office
• Flexibility to meet the needs and demands of the service

 

Closing Date: 6 October 2023

Starting Salary:  £24278.80

£12.88 per hour

36.25 hours per week

 

For more information contact Linda Duncan, linda.duncan@moray.gov.uk