Payroll Specialist

4 days ago


Belfast, United Kingdom Capita Full time

Payroll Specialist - Audit and Compliance

Remote Working - Belfast

£35,000

About us

Capita is a consulting, transformation and digital services business, delivering innovative solutions to transform and simplify the links between businesses and customers, governments and citizens.

Capita HRS, our full-cycle HR outsourcing and digital transformation service, delivers consumer-grade employee experiences and supports the future-fit workforce. Including Payroll as a service (PaaS)

The Role

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Capita Resourcing HR Solutions team as a Payroll Specialist, that forms part of the wider Capita Portfolio Group.

Your core responsibilities will be to aid with the design and implementation of a control and compliance audit framework for the payroll service, help with the resolution of current/ legacy client technical queries and review and sign-off of on-ongoing periodical payrolls.

**Duties**:
Client payroll
- Work in conjunction with the payroll advisors and operations manager, to resolve current and legacy technical client queries
- Work in conjunction with the payroll advisors and the operations manager to review client payrolls, as per the agreed timetable
- Work in conjunction with the operations manager and project team, as technical SME, to reignite & complete ongoing customer improvement payroll projects that have stagnated.
- Provide cover for short term team absence within the operations team
- Any other reasonable duties as delegated by the Head of Payroll/ Head of operations

Audits
- Work in conjunction with the Head of Payroll, to design & implement a controls/ compliance framework for use by the payroll operations team for the client payrolls.
- Work in conjunction with the operations manager, on the rollout and integration of the design, as part of BAU.
- Conduct regular audits, to ensure the design is working as predicated in practise and make tweaks as necessary
- Engage with the software development team, to investigate automated opportunities that can aid the controls process
- Assist with any delegated responsibilities issued by the Head of Payroll, to attain globally recognised service organisation control reports i.e. ISAE3402
- Any other reasonable audit duties as delegated by the Head of Payroll

**Requirements**:
To be considered for this role you must have:

- A minimum of 5 years end to end payroll experience with strong technical competence.
- You must be proficient with Microsoft Excel/ PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office products.
- Previous experience working as part of a project is desired, but not essential.
- You should be highly organised with the ability to work efficiently, with a high degree of accuracy.
- Previous experience of using more advanced payroll software i.e. Oracle, SAP would be helpful, but is not essential.
- While you will be reporting directly to the Head of Payroll, we are looking for someone to join a busy team, so we need a strong team player with excellent prioritisation skills.
- You must be a strong written and verbal communicator.
- Previous experience working on, or maintaining payroll controls (SOX standard) desirable.
- CIPP qualification preferred, but not essential

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