Payroll Officer x 2

Are you passionate about payroll and looking to make a difference in a dynamic, supportive environment?

Southwark Council is seeking a dedicated Payroll Officers to join our team. In this role, you’ll be an integral part of ensuring our payroll processes run smoothly and efficiently.

Our Payroll Officers are the backbone of our efficient and effective payroll service. In this pivotal role, you will handle payroll transactions with precision, ensuring the seamless collection and validation of data. You'll be responsible for inputting this data into SAP, meticulously checking information, and raising any concerns promptly.

Your expertise will help resolve a wide range of payroll-related issues for managers, staff, pensioners, and external third parties through various communication channels.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage Payroll Transactions: Ensure accurate data collection and validation for staff, pensioners, and other payrolls including generating payslips, P45s, and P60s.
• Data Input and Checking: Input data into SAP and verify outputs to maintain payroll integrity.
• Address Concerns: Tackle payroll-related issues raised by various stakeholders with confidence and clarity.
• Collaborate: Work closely with team colleagues, HR services, senior managers, trade unions, and external bodies to build strong working relationships.
• Assist Senior Payroll Staff: Support the team by collecting, analysing, and reporting payroll data for both internal and external use, contributing to the end-year process.
• Offering advice: To employees and managers on Employer Self Service and Manager Self Service systems.

How will you make an impact as our Payroll Officer?

• Previous Payroll Officer experience within a HR or Payroll team.
• A deep understanding and knowledge of payroll procedures and systems (SAP).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to handle face-to-face and telephone queries.
• You’ll thrive in a fast-paced environment, prioritising tasks to meet competing deadlines, and be able to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Demonstrated ability to manage payroll transactions accurately and efficiently.
• The ability to provide clear guidance on payroll matters and support payroll system users.
• Confidence in handling complex payroll tasks, including debt recovery and benefits packages, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements.
• Able to cultivate a solution orientated mind-set and approach to their work.
• This role offers flexible home working blended with travel into our London Bridge HQ.

About Southwark Council

Southwark Council is the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues such as The Shard, The Tate Modern and Borough Market along with many social enterprises and we have a young, diverse, and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities.

Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Benefits and more information:

https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/

Recruitment timetable:

• Application closing date: 11.59pm on 1 November 2024.
• Interview date: W/C 11 November 2024.

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans.
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

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