Payroll Officer

**Are you a skilled Payroll Officer looking for your next Career opportunity?
**Do you have working knowledge of Sage 50cloud?**

If so we have the opportunity for a Experienced Payroll Officer to join us and upskill to Payroll Manager.

This position will be a **Hybrid **position and you will be required to work from the office, a minimum of 2 days per week.

**Selsdon House**

**212-220 Addington Road**

**South Croydon**

**Surrey**

**CR2 8LD**

We are Avicenna and We are here to make Pharmacy **Better**

At Avicenna we actively make pharmacy better by having a lasting impact on the lives of our community, providing only the best care creates a more positive Impact on our patients lives, We grow our reach to help more and we are being smarter in safety and innovation.

Better for our **People**

Better for our** Patients**

Better for our **Planet**

We are have recently Partnered with an outsourcing payroll company who have reviewed and tidied our Payroll processes to make it seamless, what this means is that you will have a thorough handover from the Payroll experts that have been looking after this project, ready for you to take over and run the payroll with ease.

**What do our Values mean?**

We believe pharmacy can be better for our people, whether that be in store, the buying group or support office. We also are making Avicenna a better place to work for our partners.

We are making pharmacy better for our planet by creating a sustainable business and take responsibility for our impact on the planet. We measure our customers happiness, and we are always looking for new ways to improve the quality of our stores and service we provide to the local communities.

**Your New Role with Avicenna**:
As the Payroll Manager you will be required to oversee the Avicenna payroll for Approximately 1,400 employees whilst working as part of the finance team.

You mainly be responsible for processing as well as overseeing payroll, involvement in the monthly payroll runs and ensuring the employer and employee PAYE are managed and paid in time.
- Checking the number of hours employees have worked, taken sick (calculate SSP or CSP), or as holiday.
- Managing 2/3 Payroll Team Members.
- Processing pay, raises, shift payments and overtime compensation.
- Ensure accurate and timely processing of payroll updates including new hires, terminations, and changes to pay rates.
- Collaborating with the human resources department to maintain employee data.
- Resolving issues employees have with timesheets, payslips, and other payroll matters.
- Changing employee bank records when necessary to process payments accurately.
- Ensure wages are ready in time to be paid by electronic transfer.

Responsibilities listed in Full Job Description which is available upon request.

**The Benefits you deserve**:
Payroll is a vital element of our organisation, So, we have a range of excellent benefits that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit the individuals needs Including:
**Generous Annual Leave allowance**.

**Competitive base salary**

**Discounts platform**:

- for online leading retailers

**Smartech platform** - Allowing you access to the latest tech that you can spread the cost of your payments over your salary, Interest Free

**Cycle To Work Scheme** - New bike or equipment funding supported by Avicenna.

**Pension Contributions**- In partnership with the people’s pension

**Employee assistance programme** - including a 24/7 Confidential helpline, Legal information, Counselling support and an Online Wellbeing Portal.

**Car Scheme** - Partnered with the Tusker Car benefit scheme, meaning you can configure a brand new car from scratch T&C’s apply.

**My Avicenna - **You will have access to a range of Platforms that put your health and wellbeing at the forefront, the **Move**, **Munch**, **Money **and **Mind. **Offering you a selection of the best exercise videos, Tasty recipe inspiration and expert guides, tips, and tools to help you manage your money better.

**Why join Avicenna?**

We are the UK’s fastest growing group of community pharmacies and the country’s largest buying group, with 139 pharmacies and over 1200 independent members, so what that means is that now is a great time to join and develop with Avicenna as we are expanding and as a growing Company you will also be able to develop your career with a wide variety of opportunities available.

**We would love to meet someone with**:

- Ability to build excellent relationships with internal members of staff and external stakeholder
- Excellent Compliance knowledge.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to analyse, present and communicate data in a compelling format.
- Ability to exercise judgement in the face of conflicting demands.
- Excellent communication skills at all levels Proficient in Microsoft Office

Join us on our mission to make Pharmacy **better.