Payroll Officer - National Trust : Job Details

Due to an internal promotion, we’re looking for a customer focussed Payroll Officer to support the People Services Centre (PSC) at the National Trust. You’ll play a key part in the day-to-day delivery of our payroll provision, ensuring accuracy and compliance with internal and external requirements.

We’d love to hear from you if you’re customer focused, solutions led and proactive.

We're bigger than you think, we're more complicated than we appear and we're larger scale than you'd imagine. We've got dedicated people in our teams, and we've got so much more we want to achieve. We're for everyone, for ever, and we really mean that. 

Your contractual location will be our head office in Swindon and there will be an expectation for you to attend the office. However, there is flexibility on where you're based at other times. You'll be required to work at a National Trust location for 40-60% of your working week. This will be discussed in more detail at interview. 

Under the leadership of the Payroll Team Leader, you'll administer Payroll processes for all employee lifecycle activities. You'll support and share expertise with customers and colleagues to ensure best practice is followed and be expected to solve problems, directly responding to customer queries.

You'll take responsibility for transacting payroll and the preparation for authorisation to BACS and be responsible for testing system and process changes, actively participating in continuous improvement activities.

The People Service Centre is “one team” so you’ll have the opportunity to work on other people related activities when needed.

You can view the full role profile for this role in the document attached. You don't need to have all the knowledge, skills and experience listed in the role profile; this is just to provide a full picture of what is possible. But we’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Knowledge of payroll compliance and legislation
• Ability to calculate manual statutory payments, Tax, NI, family leave, SSP
• Full understanding of Microsoft suite in particular Excel with the ability to interrogate and manipulate data, VLOOKUP, Pivot tables
• Able to work on your own and within a team
• A high level of accuracy
• Experience of using Oracle or a similar system

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

•Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

•Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

•Rental deposit loan scheme

•Season ticket loan

•EV car lease scheme 

•Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

•Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

•Flexible working whenever possible

•Employee assistance programme

•Free parking at most Trust places

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