Senior Payroll Officer

BBS Recruitment is an independent recruitment agency for transport and logistics sector, supplying to a variety of clients across UK.

We are seeking a compassionate and dedicated Senior Payroll Officer to join our team based in Nottingham. The successful candidate will provide practical, emotional, and person-centred support to vulnerable children, young people, and their families, helping them access appropriate services, improve their wellbeing, and achieve positive outcomes.

Key Responsibilities of the Senior Payroll Officer:

·         Prefer to be familiar with ITrent

·         Administer and maintain all NCHA Group payroll and pensions systems and records e.g. colleague expenses, statutory payments, absence procedures as per current statutory rules and regulations within agreed timescales.

·         Operate all payroll control accounts and systems (such as net pay and pension) to ensure completeness and accuracy of transactions and records to meet NCHA Group’s obligations to colleagues, employer and external bodies.

·         Ensure that all records relating to the section are accurate and up-to-date and all appropriate control accounts are reconciled on a regular basis; taking corrective action where necessary.

·         Extract and analyse data from both the financial and payroll systems, draft returns and various reports where required.

·         Assist in period and year end payroll close procedures; producing the relevant internal and external documentation to required deadlines.

·         Contribute to system and operational development including procedure manuals.

·         Identify where corrective action is required; liaising with internal and external stakeholders to recommend corrective action.

·         Answer complex payroll related queries within agreed time limits; always ensuring confidentiality of information according to Data Protection Act.

·         Assist in the production of statutory and financial accounts and reports of NCHA Group; assisting internal and external auditors as required.

·         Provide input to processes for business transformation in the provision of financial management services to the NCHA Group.

·         Develop and maintain working relationships with customers.

·         Provide cover across roles in the directorate when required.

·         Maintenance and administration of appropriate manual and computerised records, and reconciliations thereon within agreed timescales; taking corrective action where required.

Key Requirements of the Senior Payroll Officer:

·         Educated to Diploma in Payroll level (NVQ4) with demonstrable payroll experience

·         Substantial demonstrable experience of working with computerised payroll systems

·         Substantial demonstrable and up to date knowledge of Statutory Payments & PAYE to comply with statutory regulations

·         Considerable numeracy skills and good level of literacy

·         Demonstrable experience of dealing with complex payroll queries in verbal and written communication

·         Demonstrable ability to use functionality of Microsoft Excel and other related applications to retrieve and manipulate complex data

Personal qualities, values and behaviours of the Senior Payroll Officer:

·         An understanding of the needs of people from diverse social, cultural and racial backgrounds

·         Willingness to promote and adhere to the CLEAR values of NCHA

Rate: £18.56 per hour

Hours per week: 35(3 days remote 2 days in the office).

If interested, please send your CV, or give us a call.