Syp - Finance Clerk (Payroll) - May 2023 - Sheffield, United Kingdom - South Yorkshire Police

South Yorkshire Police

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Sheffield, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Role:
Finance Clerk***
Department:Corporate Finance (Payroll)

Location:
Carbrook, Force HQ, Sheffield

Salary:
£21,432 - £23,100 (Band B)***
Hours: 37 Hours per week

Contract Type:
Temporary until 31 July 2024

Role Purpose:

We are looking to recruit a Finance Clerk, who will work as part of a team, be responsible for contributing towards producing four monthly payrolls (approx. 8700 payslips per month).

Ensuring all personnel are paid correctly in-line with Home Office Police Regulations, Police Support Staff Council Handbook, Force Policy, Legislation and Employment Law.

Key Responsibilities:

Payroll Processing

Responsible for carrying out all variation inputs to employee records in the Oracle system for Payroll and Pensions for four payrolls specifically for voluntary deductions, change of bank details, student loans and tax codes.

Setting up new Police Pensioners, change of personal details. Quality checking data input into the Oracle System in relation to Pay

Overtime, Mileage, Allowances and Expenses
Responsible for the administration of employee mileage, allowance and expenses in line with legislation and force policy.

Responsible for the administration of Police and Staff overtime and time-off; ensuring all overtime receives by the deadlines is checked, coded and entered into the relevant pay period.

Payroll Reconciliations
Ensure all reporting to third party voluntary deductions is complete each month. Preparing the Vouchers and Pro-forma invoices to discharge the force liability and ensuring the necessary authorisation is applied.

Advice and Guidance

Contribute to the Payroll Procedure and ERP Payroll Systems manuals; ensure payroll processes are applied in accordance with financial regulations and instruction.

Deliver and take part in Overtime, Mileage and Expenses training when required.

Systems
Liaising with the Systems Admin team on matters relating to pay.

Take an active role in User Acceptance Testing programmes to ensure Oracle systems upgrades and legislative patches are applied correctly.

Taking an active role in assisting the Snr Payroll Officer with system problem solving. Play an active role in payroll projects for all new payroll system implementations, all payroll system upgrades.

Ad Hoc
Assist with the completion of internal and external audit reviews. Assist with the maintenance of the Corporate Finance Payroll intranet page. Deal with ad hoc requests for payroll data, which will include investigation, analysis and Freedom of Information requests. Ensure all filing is stored and disposed of in accordance with force policy.

Skills and experience:

Willingness to work towards CIPP Payroll Technician Certificate
Previous relevant Payroll experience in a similar sized organisation.
Experienced in high volume overtime and expenses claims processing.
Relevant experience of operating in a fastmoving administration process; checking, coding and inputting.
Dealing with large volume data inputting
Relevant experience working within a regulated finance function, trained in account reconciliations and the administration of thirdparty accounts.
Experience of using a computerbased payroll/expenses system.
Experience in interrogating a computerised payroll system.
Ability to learn new procedures and interpret and advise them to stakeholders
Building relations with partners and stakeholders.

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

Generous annual leave allowance
Flexible and hybrid working
Generous 'family' leave
Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
Access to a range of occupational health facilities
Generous pension scheme
Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
Cycle to work scheme
Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

Appearance & Standards:

SYP is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance.

Officers, staff and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate.

Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.

South Yorkshire Police's Key Values:

Please find attached information sheet on South Yorkshire Police's Key Values. The force has a particular focus on three areas, Fairness, Integrity and Trust. Under each of these three headings there are key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Smarter ways of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to develop