The successful candidate must be able to commute easily to the site two days a week, as well as for the interview. Full-time attendance on-site will be required during the training period.

The roles are full time (37.5 hours Monday - Friday), to start ASAP and paying 12.27 PAYE per hour + holiday pay or 15.65 Umbrella per hour.

There is a good opportunity that these roles may become permanent.

We are seeking Payroll Officers who will be responsible for the delivery of accurate payments to staff and police officers, both weekly and monthly for a defined part of the total payroll, ensuring legislation, Terms & Conditions of Service and other Statutory and Local agreements are processed correctly. Responsible for the completion of a timely and accurate payroll within defined timescales, ensuring confidentiality of staff records at all times.

The role:

• Work within the guidelines of our Service Delivery and Client policies and procedures, ensuring that Audit requirements are met at all times and deadlines are strictly adhered to
• Responsible for dealing effectively with queries from customers both internal and external, both by telephone or email, at all times conveying a professional and efficient attitude and pass any contentious calls to the Payroll Management team abiding by the Client's policies and procedures
• Reporting to the Payroll Manager for all aspects of payroll work, ensuring the continued smooth and effective running of the section and that all targets are met within defined deadlines
• Responsible for ensuring that all National or Local payroll changes are dealt with in accordance with requirements, and that all customers are able to understand the changes that affect their pay
• Responsible for ensuring that all documentation relating to statutory legislation and Terms & Conditions of service is kept up to date and is easily accessible to the rest of the team
• Verify written responses to queries from staff, Clients and external agencies
• Validation of other payroll officer's temporary and permanent alterations to staff records. Ensure and validate that appropriate checking mechanisms are in place for other members of the team.
• Ensure that all manual under/overpayments are valid and correctly calculated and payments raised (if appropriate) on a timely basis.

Essential Skills:

• 5 GCSE's level A-C in English and Maths or Equivalent
• Experience in payroll or finance
• Excellent communication and organisational skills
• A background in investigating and resolving complex pay queries
• Sound understanding of PAYE, National Insurance
• A high level knowledge of data-input completion
• Experience of accurate data entry and validation of financial information

Desirable Skills

• NVQ 3 Qualification or equivalent level of experience in Payroll.
• Ability to understand, interpret, implement and communicate several complex terms and conditions of service within one organisation
• Has an awareness of the law relating to payroll (ie employment rights and data protection)
• Experience of processing transactions on multi customer payrolls
• Previous experience of seeking and suggesting continual process improvements, when identified through daily processing

Please only apply for these roles if you are available on no more than 1 week's notice and can easily commute to Southampton.

Thank you

Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer.

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