Job Details: Payroll Professional (Technical)

Job Purpose: -To deliver a professional, effective and efficient payroll service to the business and to the pensions department.

Administrative process management

To effectively undertake all payroll activities to ensure service requirements are met by using effective and efficient processes.
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• Able to competently carry out the full range of payroll activities
  
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• Review processes and activities and recommend improvements

• Take ownership and responsibility for completion of own work and in the absence of others

• Undertake system testing

Plan and control own work activities

To work with Payroll team leaders to determine what needs to be done to meet business requirements to ensure the delivery of a quality service.
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• Day to day management of own work load

Legal and regulatory compliance

To carry out all activities within legal, regulatory and company procedures.
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• Maintain a detailed working knowledge of payroll processes, company procedures and payroll statutory matters

• Adhere to all policies and procedures and SOX controls

Advice and guidance

To provide advice and guidance to employees and line managers on payroll matters.
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• Support and advise others in team

• Provide advise to managers and employees on payroll matters

• Provide excellent levels of customer service

Provision of and maintenance of payroll data

To provide information and reports as requested.
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• Analyse and investigate complex calculations

Projects

To contribute to HRSC projects.
• To effectively work as a member of project teams

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

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• Company, legislative and regulatory requirements underpinning departmental processes and procedures

• A range of office and IT systems appropriate to the job (Peoplesoft, Microsoft etc)

• Previous experience in a wide range of payroll activities

• Planning and prioritisation skills

• Good interpersonal skills

Ability to

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• Identify and resolve problems

• Identify process improvement

Qualifications Required:

IPPM (or equivalent) desirable

Technical Abilities for Payroll Processing

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• Ideally, Peoplesoft or other relational database experience

• Oracle SQL

• Running Reports

• Reconciling and analysing data

• Problem Solving Skills