Senior Payroll Officer

Salary: £49,991 – £52,567 per year

Role: Senior Payroll Specialist

Location: Remote

Type: Interim – 6 months

Salary: £41,659 – £43,806

Senior Payroll Specialist required to join a well-respected, ambitious, and established organisation based within East Midlands. My client is looking for an enthusiastic individual who has extensive payroll experience.

As a Senior Payroll Specialist you will have extensive knowledge of:

• Payroll systems, including interfaces from payroll systems to financial ledgers.
• The operation of payrolls, including tax, NI, pensions, AVCs.
• Other payroll deductions including court orders, union subs, charities, clubs and associations.
• Statutory payroll returns, including P11Ds, and annual pension returns.
• The operation of salary-sacrifice schemes and similar staff benefits.
• Liaising with outsourced payroll service providers, and the escalation of issues.
• Accounting for payroll related data, and robust reconciliations to support the pay-over of deductions, the annual accounts and audit.
• Developing finance procedures in line with professional best practice, statutory, DHSC, NHS and HMT guidance.
• The principles of VAT, ideally in a public sector context.
• The review of contracts, MOUs and SLAs, and approval requirements.
• The recovery of salary overpayments, including working with external agencies to pursue legal action.
• Group financial reporting.
• The preparation of statutory accounts, or associated workings papers.
• International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
• Audit requirements and leading the preparation of audit responses.

Required skills and experience of the Senior Payroll Specialist

• Part qualified at CCAB/CIMA level, fully qualified AAT or have an equivalent professional qualification in payroll (e.g. Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals).
• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience
• of delivering change projects in a financial environment, adapting processes and procedures, and embracing changes required to meet current service requirements.

If you believe you have the necessary skills, ambition and experience for the Senior Payroll Officer role, please, or contact Jessi Pabla at Sellick Partnership. With the department workload increasing due to success of the organisation, my client is looking for a relatively quick appointment.

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