Payroll Administrator - St Helens, United Kingdom - St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

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St Helens, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Looking for a role which offers career progression? Want to become a Payroll Professional?

Well, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a well organised, comprehensive, and highly motivated Payroll Administrator within a well establish and continuously growing Payroll Department, who currently provide payroll services for 80,000 + members of the NHS community around the Northwest each month

We are able to offer agile working with a 2 days minimum on site once training is complete - Equipment will be provided.

Existing NHS staff only - this could be considered as a secondment post. Please note

Please note, interviews may include assessment tasks.

Your role will be to work alongside our Payroll Officers to accurately update the payroll system with changes to pay and pension contributions etc.

To produce accurate and prompt salary payments to all staff, you will analyse, investigate, and resolve queries and discrepancies, and liaise with our customers providing advice as required.

Full training will be provided by our in-house Training team, who will guide and support you as you start your Payroll Professional journey.

Attention to detail is essential, as is providing excellent customer service
- first time every time Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal and the ability to build effective working relationships at all levels is a must.

St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 360,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man.

We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our '5 Star Patient Care' strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Our latest achievements include:

Acute Trust of the Year
HSJ Awards November 201
Trust rates Outstanding by the CQC
Inspection August 201
Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
Best acute Trust in the North West for quality of care (NHS Staff Survey 2021)
Best place to work in the North West (NHS Staff Survey 2021)

In the NHS Staff Survey 2021 the Trust scored the highest marks in the North West for the following areas;

Standard of care
Best place to work
Care of patients being the Trust's priority
Staff engagement
Staff morale
Compassionate and inclusive
Providing a safe environment for staff

PAYROLL PROCESSING

Plans own workload to ensure completion of workload within client accounts by payroll deadlines.
Process payroll and salary sacrifice as per client SLAs.
Make accurate and authorised payments, promptly and courteously resolving any queries.
Maintain payrollrelated records including Income Tax, National Insurance, Pensions, Occupational and Statutory Sick and Maternity /Paternity Pay, Adoption leave and Family Tax Credits and any other relevant payments or deductions.
Process manual calculations based on the above as required.
Calculation of reimbursement of staff travel and subsistence and associated expenses in accordance with strict processing timetables.
Make regular and systematic checks of permanent and temporary changes in accordance with the payroll procedures and undertake adhoc validation at the direction of the Payroll Team Leader.
Provide information to the Payroll Team Leader as required to enable the reconciliation of the payroll control accounts and pay advances.
Ensure payroll information is clearly explained when dealing with and ensure queries are handled courteously and confidentially within agreed departmental standards and response times.

MAIN DUTIES

Always maintain confidentiality and security of information.
Identify discrepancies, unusual features or queries at any point in the payroll process and either resolve or refer to the Payroll Team Leader for guidance.
Ensure all documentation is filed in accordance with departmental procedures and that stored material is readily retrievable to respond to queries and for audit purposes.
Ensure all requests for payroll processing meet the authorisation level for that account and escalate to client if not.
Participate in payroll processing ensuring timescales are met, payroll policies and procedure are followed, and all information is accurate and up to date.
Be fully conversant with the effective utilisation of the payroll system, including data entry, system navigation and report generation.
Validate all output from the payroll process to ensure all payments have been paid correctly.
Process appropriate reports, schedules and documents and distribute as required.
Complete the current payroll documentati