Payroll Officer with experience to be able to process, calculate and manage your own area of Payroll.
We are looking for an ambitious person to join the Payroll team. You will receive training and support to provide admin and clerical support to the Payroll Team and will deliver a comprehensive, quality, and confidential payroll service to employees of Mid Cheshire NHS Trust.
A key requirement of the role is to ensure payroll is provided efficiently and accurately to staff and that all data is processed in accordance with the Trust's Financial Instructions, internal procedures and statutory obligations. You will organise your own workload, coordinate activities with other team members and step in to fill gaps to ensure continuity of services. Initiative and supportiveness to colleagues are essential.
There is a possibility that Payroll may merge with West Lancs and Merseyside, so travel to St Helens occasionally will be required once the merger occurs.
Key Payroll Service Responsibilities
- Process allocated monthly/weekly payroll within specified deadlines, ensuring all source documentation is input accurately onto the ESR payroll system.
- Accurately complete all permanent changes to employee records.
- Apply statutory and non‑statutory deductions as per relevant legislation and Trust policies.
- Calculate termination and redundancy payments.
- Process payments under Sickness, Maternity, Paternity and adoption leave schemes.
- Recover overpayments in salary.
- Process temporary injury benefits for work‑related injuries.
- Prepare and make manual payments to staff.
- Ensure all information is produced to expected standards of performance and agreed timescales.
General Responsibilities
- Proactively manage commitments by liaising with others, internally and externally, ensuring documentation is accurate and brief senior management on difficulties or issues.
- Be fully conversant with all required electronic systems for payroll purposes, especially the ESR system.
- Be fully conversant with all required electronic systems for correspondence, recording, retrieval and maintenance of information, including Internet and Intranet access.
- Build and maintain constructive relationships within and across divisions and externally to improve service effectiveness and efficiency for staff.
- Exercise judgment regarding when to handle queries personally and when to contact others, and with what degree of urgency, according to departmental guidelines.
- Prioritise work and manage incoming/outgoing requests for action or information, including follow‑ups, according to agreed timescales.
- Prepare, collate and provide data, information and statistics to support the managerial function of the Department.
- Participate in coordinating workload during periods of absence, where appropriate.
- Prepare and produce documentation and guidelines, liaising with others to ensure accuracy, consistency and completeness of information.
- Support the Department in audit activity as necessary.
Qualifications and experience required include a proven ability to handle payroll processes efficiently and accurately. Strong organisational, communication and analytical skills are essential.
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