HR & PAYROLL OFFICER

Adecco is delighted to lead the recruitment efforts on behalf of our esteemed client, currently seeking a candidate to join their HR team. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fulfilling career that makes a real impact.

As a crucial member of the HR team for an organisation dedicated to serving the local community, you will play a key role in delivering a HR and payroll service. Your responsibilities will involve supporting the HR Manager in implementing innovative HR initiatives and systems, while also ensuring the seamless administration of all payroll aspects.

This is a permanent, hybrid full-time role, working from Monday to Friday & our client offers fantastic benefits!

Key Responsibilities

• Provide a professional HR support service to all employees across the Association.
• Support line managers with the recruitment of staff
• Ensure Right to Work and DBS checks are conducted as necessary
• Prepare new and revised contracts of employment.
• Monitor compliance with the induction and probation processes.
• Support the HR Manager to co-ordinate and deliver training and development activities.
• Monitor attendance and support the HR Manager to implement absence management strategies.
• Monitor and support compliance with Appraisal and 1 to 1 processes.
• Maintain up to date Job Descriptions & Person Specifications for all roles.
• Support the HR Systems Assistant to maintain HR systems including adding new starters, processing leavers, running reports to support the wider business.
• Provide administrative support for formal HR processes.
• Ensure HR and payroll data is stored and shared in line with GDPR and the Association's policies.
• Provide professional payroll support to all employees.
• Support the Payroll Officer with the provision of an end to end payroll process, ensuring that all staff are paid appropriately and in a timely manner.
• Ensure all employee pay information is up to date.
• Provide an employee payroll enquiry service.
• Post payroll information to the financial system.
• Reconcile monthly payroll.
• Administer multiple pension schemes and respond to employee enquiries relating to these.
• Administer Company savings and loan scheme.
• Administer staff benefits i.e. life assurance cover and health insurance.
• Ensure compliance with statutory regulation, payroll and pension legislation, and HMRC requirements.
• Support Payroll Officer with year end payroll compliance, Inland Revenue payments, Pension payments etc.
• Support the HR Manager to implement the Wellbeing Strategy.
• Update and maintain employee records in line with policies.
• Ensure all policies and procedures are kept up to date.
• Seek ways to continuously improve HR systems and processes to improve service to the business.

Experience/Skills required

• Experience of working as part of a busy HR and payroll team. If you don't have payroll experience our client will provide training.
• Experience of providing HR support to a range of employee types and levels
• Experience of Payroll systems, application management systems, MS Office, Excel
• Experience of maintaining computerised information systems, creating system reports and producing management information data
• Experience of preparing documentation for senior management
• Skilled in dealing with confidential information
• Knowledge of generalist Human Resource matters and areas such as, employee relations, recruitment, employment law and training and development
• CIPD qualification would be desirable however not essential

Benefits

• Flexitime scheme
• Hybrid working
• Employer pension contributions matched up to 8%
• Salary Sacrifice pension option available
• Life assurance (4x annual salary)
• 25 days holiday per year plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with five years' service
• Company sick pay scheme
• Family friendly policies with company pay schemes
• Corporate Performance Bonus scheme
• Staff Savings Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme (less than 3 years' service)
• Health Cashback Plan (after 3 years' service)
• Discounted gym membership (Health Cashback Plan)
• Long Service Awards
• Staff Forum
• Cycle to work scheme

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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