Payroll Officer

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

- 389757

**Salary**:

- £29,047 - £30,944
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer
- C

**Contract type**:

- Fixed term

**Length of employment**:

- 2 years

**Business area**:

- CH - Finance - Payroll

**Type of role**:

- Finance
Other

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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**Benefits**:
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Location
- Cardiff, Wales, CF14 3UZ

About the job

**Job summary**:
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Payroll Officer

As a Payroll Officer you will support the Payroll Manager to deliver an accurate, timely and customer focused payroll and pension service in line with current Companies House policy guidelines and statutory legislation.

You will have a pivotal role, focusing on ensuring that employees are paid the correct salary and benefits and that employees are added to the payroll when they are recruited and removed from the payroll when they leave.

You will be part of a team that prides themselves on delivering an excellent customer service and accurate administration to the department as a role model for excellent customer service and with a solution focused approach you will support all payroll and pension related enquiries and issues. We work closely alongside our HR function and review our services regularly to ensure that we can deliver improvements to our services and operational delivery.

The business is currently going through an exciting period of change and we will be looking to source an experienced Payroll Officer who is keen to develop their own skills and capable of driving the team forward by working with our continuous improvement team in identifying and implementing improvements to systems and processes.

Companies House offers a flexible and welcoming culture that promotes a healthy work life balance as well as a proactive approach to wellbeing that allows us to be our best at work. We recognise that people are the key to our success so offer a fantastic benefits package including flexible working with no core hours, 30 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays and 1 privilege day as well as enrolment into the Civil Service Pension scheme with a contribution rate averaging 28%.

Find out more about what a great place Companies House is to work

**Job description**:
As a Payroll Officer you will:

- Process and quality check payroll related changes including new starters, leavers, change of hours/work patterns, change of posts, and salary sacrifice schemes.
- Manage and monitor work allocation.
- Support the Payroll Manager on monthly reconciliation activity.
- Support the Payroll Manager on monthly pensions reporting activity.
- Support the Payroll Manger on our statutory requirements, including working with HMRC and aiding in the compilation of our internal reporting requirements, as well as external requirements of ONS and Cabinet Office.
- Update customer queries and provide HR/Managers with information.
- Provide pay related information using Excel and the Payroll system to internal and external stakeholders.
- Line manage the Payroll Support Officers.
- Manage and develop internal stakeholder relationships working closely with HR Business Partners and HR Systems.
- Have a continuous improvement ethos - you’ll look for ways to develop and improve our processes.

**Person specification**:
We are looking for the following experience, which will be assessed at sift and interview.** Please refer to the bullet points in bold below when writing your personal statement, including examples to evidence your level of skill.**
- ** Knowledge of payroll processing including payroll systems, calculating statutory payments and deductions from salary.**:

- ** Experience in using payroll systems.**:

- ** Collaboration skills to build on working relationships within the Finance directorate, HR and across the business.**:

- ** Ability to work under pressure, prioritise workload and meet deadlines with conflicting demands.**:

- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong Excel skills.
- Strong people skills and confidence in dealing with people at all levels.
- iTrent knowledge will be highly advantageous.
- Experience in managing a team.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Making Effective Decisions
- Changing and Improving
- Managing a Quality Service
- Seeing the Big Picture

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £29,047, Companies House contributes £8,414 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We believe that our success is driven by the well-being and satisfaction of our team members at all levels of the organisation. At Companies House we’