Payroll Officer - London, United Kingdom - The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority

Description

About the role:

We are looking for a new
Payroll Officer to help us deliver our seamless regulatory service.

We're a payroll team of thirteen and we sit within the finance function, but your role will be visible across IPSA and will have direct, regularcontact with our customers where building successful partnerships is key.

If you like to be challenged and enjoy working in a dynamic environment, then this could be the job for you.

The role will help to make a difference to our customers everyday by providingtimely and accurate payroll information and resolving issues efficiently and effectively.

There's a lot of scope for you to enable change and improvement across the team and our day-to-day operations.


Main responsibilities:

• Ensuring MPs' staff are paid accurately and on time.
• Maintaining payroll records in accordance with The Scheme of MPs' Staffing and Business Costs and HR policies and procedures.
• Building open and honest relationships with all teams and acting as the face of Payroll across IPSA.
• Providing exemplary, seamless service to our customers, internally and externally.
• Enabling your colleagues to achieve results through brilliant teamwork.
• Collaborating with other teams to resolve payroll queries, ensuring teams are provided with appropriate and timely advice and information.
• Ensuring financial controls are maintained by IPSA and MPs.
• Actively contributing to continuous improvement of the payroll function and helping to improve IPSA.

What we are looking for:

You'll have experience of working in a payroll team and understand how HMRC legislation applies to payroll, pensions and other statutory payments, as well as basic finance and budget management skills.

We'd like you to be a qualified payroll technician throughthe Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) qualification but if you're not, we'll support you through development pathway.

You'll be adept at understanding and communicating complex and challenging financial information to people of all levels, both within IPSA and to our customers.

You'll be curious about the payroll data to ensure it's right first time, every time. You'llhave an eye for accuracy and attention to detail and you'll own your work. You'll enjoy working with others and be accountable for achieving great results.

You'll be working in a pressured environment so resilience is a must, and you'll need great listening skills. High initiative and a flexible approach to work and change are important, too.

You'll be joining a diverse and knowledgeable bunch of people, passionate about making IPSA brilliant and so you'll need to fit right in.

A
full person specification is available on our website.


Our commitment and values

We're committed to making IPSA a more diverse and inclusive organisation and we choose to recruit, retain, and develop people with a diverse mix of skills and experience We are a high-performing organisation that values diversity and we live our values throughall the work that we do.

Our inclusive workplace environment welcomes people from all backgrounds and our ID, Green, Women's and LGBTQIA+ networks signal our commitment to celebrating and promoting diversity, inclusion, and sustainability.

Our core values are Staying Connected, Seeing the Bigger Picture, Being Open, Doing the Right Thing and Making a Difference.

If you share and live our values, then we would like to hear from you. We are a values-based organisation, and you can expect theseto feature throughout the recruitment process and beyond.


How to apply

Before you apply, you're asked to read the 'how to apply' section on our website detailing our approach to reducing unconscious bias in our recruitment process.

Interview process
Our interview and onboarding processes are virtual.

If you want to join our team, you'll need access to a secure WIFI network and a private space to work from.

If you're successful we will provide you with equipment for onboarding, training, and workingfrom home.

If you are shortlisted, there will be a competency-based interview where we will ask you a series of questions designed to help the panel assess your suitability for the role and for IPSA and we may also ask you prepare a short presentation.

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