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Job Description:

Payroll Officer needed in Nottingham Paying  £15.31 per hr  ref OR109409

Full time hours on a temporary basis

Key Responsibilities
  • Administer and maintain payroll and pension systems, ensuring all records are accurate, up to date, and compliant with statutory regulations.
  • Process payroll-related transactions, including colleague expenses, statutory payments, and absence-related adjustments within agreed timescales.
  • Operate and reconcile payroll control accounts, including net pay and pension accounts, ensuring the completeness and accuracy of financial records.
  • Maintain manual and computerised payroll records and undertake regular reconciliations, investigating and correcting discrepancies where required.
  • Extract, analyse, and interpret payroll and financial data to produce reports, returns, and management information.
  • Support monthly, period-end, and year-end payroll processes, ensuring all deadlines and statutory requirements are met.
  • Assist in the preparation of statutory returns, financial accounts, and reports, and provide support to internal and external auditors.
  • Respond to complex payroll enquiries in a professional and confidential manner, ensuring compliance with Data Protection legislation.
  • Identify process improvements and contribute to system enhancements, business transformation initiatives, and the development of payroll procedures and manuals.
  • Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues, managers, pension providers, auditors, and external agencies.
  • Provide cover and support across the wider finance function as required.

If you are interested in the role, please email your CV to [email protected] quoting the reference number. 

Essential Employment is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Essential Employment is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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  • Job Type

    Temporary, Full Time

  • Work Authorisation

    No

  • Industry Sector Accountancy