Payroll Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 252003**Salary**:

- £25,673 - £30,203**Job grade**:

- Other**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Human Resources**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England, NE4 5BZAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- To provide an effective professional and dedicated payroll support service to the integrated Payroll, Pension and HR team.
- Managing and coordinating key tasks, outputs, and reports of the team ensuring they are executed and delivered to an appropriate standard and quality in line with Payroll, pension and HR reporting timelines and requirements.**Job description**:
Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.

Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.

**Person specification**:
You will be an experienced payroll professional looking for their next challenge. You will have a wealth of knowledge in all aspects of in-house payroll, including end to end processing, analysis, manual calculations, statutory requirements and payroll controls.

As your role will involve working across multiple payrolls you will be highly organised, self-motivated, able to prioritise and work to tight deadlines.

In delivering a professional and responsive payroll service to both internal and customers, you will have excellent communication and customer service skills and be able to anticipate future actions required with the customer experience at the forefront. You will have good interpersonal skills with the ability to be assertive when necessary, resilient, and remain calm under pressure.

A payroll qualification or working towards a payroll qualification is desirable but not essential.

You will be experienced with Microsoft Office Outlook, Word and Powerpoint and will have advanced level experience with Excel.

**Benefits**:
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

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**Selection process details**

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

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**Nationality requirements**

**Working for the Civil Service**

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
- People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.**Nationality requirements**:
This job is broadly open to the following groups:

- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, E