Payroll Team Leader

Temporary Payroll Team Leader
Reference no: Greenwich RQ1264394
Pay rate: £19.80 per hour PAYE
Hours per week: 35 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: WOOLWICH, London
Fully office based role
Rate is negotiable for the right candidates – please state pay expectation clearly on your CV
A Payroll Team Leader is required to work to the Payroll Operations, Service, Development and Training Manager and be responsible for the efficient running of the Payroll Administrators and their workloads. To contribute to the development and implementation of improvements in the Payroll Service and maintain knowledge of legislation and policies and how to apply that knowledge on an operational basis.
Key responsibilities:
Undertake the most complex transactional work in the Payroll Service, to manage the work of up to 5 payroll administrators and to co-ordinate the workload of the team within strict deadlines.
Deliver the daily operational running of the Council’s Payroll Service’s process and procedures. It is essential to maintain current knowledge of the area of responsibility.
Ensure that the work of the service is coordinated and delivered in an efficient manner, meeting the strict deadlines of the service. This includes ensuring that over 10,000 staff are paid accurately and on time and the Council meets its statutory requirements including all information returns to HMRC. The total payroll bill is in excess of £200m.
Work to the payroll operations manager undertake effective regular monitoring of transactional activity and recording of this in accordance with the agreed quality standards and respond to any issues highlighted through this to ensure that output is of a high standard and complies with agreed processes, current legislation, best practice and customer service standards.
Undertake the more complex transaction processes within the Payroll Service. Monitoring staff performance in line with set targets and provide feedback.
Manage Payroll Administrators to ensure the efficient and timely completion of Payroll processes related to the, payment and termination of staff within agreed timescales.
Support the Payroll Operations Manager providing feedback on queries and ensuring initial complaints are dealt with in a professional manner.
Be aware of relevant accounting and taxation legislation affecting payroll, and ensure they are being applied correctly in the operational environment.
Ensure awareness of all relevant statutory changes and best practice development. Ensure irregularities identified are investigated and reported to Corporate Anti-Fraud if appropriate.
Undertake testing as directed by the reporting manager, where there are major changes in legislation/policy/system upgrades ensuring everything is fully tested. Support the Payroll Operations Manager in ensuring that processes and procedures in place mean the Service achieves best practice.
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles.
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