Payroll Specialist

Description:

Payroll Specialist required - fixed 1 year contract.

Our client is a public sector shared service centre providing high quality HR, Payroll, Finance, Procurement and IT services and expertise to our partners. They are proud of the part we play in enabling our partners to achieve the best outcomes for the British people and the UK economy. They are responsible for providing a wide range of Payroll and Pension Services to their clients.

They require a Payroll Specialist to join their thriving and busy team based in Swindon. Their Payroll & Pensions Team collaborate to deliver high quality pay related services to their customers. They work a mixture of full and part time roles, based in the office and also offer the flexibility of Hybrid working as well. Start times are flexible between 8am and 9:30am and employees are encouraged to work where they feel most comfortable, and generally work is based on a 37 hour week.

Key Responsibilities include:
* Leading various programme meetings, planning sessions and workshops geared toward successful delivery of our new systems
* Collaboration with my clients and their client Programme Managers to establish specific payroll deliverables / milestones
* Identify, from implementation activities where gaps are created in existing business process material and amend as necessary
* Work with Service Delivery teams to organise participation of staff in testing events whilst ensuring no impact on business as usual
* Lead the payroll activity involved in the overall project(s) including successful delivery of all planned end to end parallel run procedures
* Act as operational SME for all pay related activities whilst ensuring that payroll best practice processes are embedded in the solutions
* Engage and liaise with pension providers to ensure new system implementations meet their specifications and that these requirements are fed into the overall project
* Ensure senior managers and Executive team are fully appraised of specific payroll implementation

Flexibility may be required to respond to the changing needs of the organisation and the service. You may also be asked to support with ad hoc projects and pieces of work relevant to your role in line with business requirements
Skills, Knowledge & experience
* Experience of building and maintaining effective relationships with senior internal/external stakeholders
* Payroll experience at managerial level
* Knowledge of working with SaaS solutions and experience of Payroll system implementation projects
* Knowledge of up to date and payroll best practice
* A proactive and problem-solving approach
* Excellent leadership skills with strong customer and delivery focus
* Analytical skills with the ability to interpret and present Management Information

This role is an in initial 1 year fixed term contract, with lots of opportunity to grow and develop with the Business's ambitions and forge a great career. Please apply in writing in the first instance to (url removed)

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