Senior Payroll Officer - Adecco : Job Details

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Payroll Officer to join Avon & Somerset Police at their Police Headquarters in Portishead.

This role will be hybrid, working (Home and Headquarters) Monday to Friday, office hours. The rate is £19.17.

This is a temporary role until January 2026.

PLEASE NOTE DUE TO POLICE VETTING CRITERIA YOU MUST HAVE BEEN RESIDING WITHIN THE UK CONTINUOUSLY FOR AT LEAST 3 YEARS AT TIME OF APPLICATION.

The role: To support the Payroll & Pensions Manager for the delivery of a high quality efficient and effective payroll and pension service. Provide sound professional advice and support, covering a wide range of personnel and payroll issues.

Act as a subject matter expert in relation to payroll and pension, ensuring a responsive and comprehensive service to Clients, providing daily in-put as required to support the delivery of the Payroll function. To supervise Payroll Officers working within a larger team delivering a Payroll Service.

Main Responsibilities

• Assist in the delivery of the Payroll and Pension service to the Constabulary within process, policy and legislation.
• Lead and support organisational, directorate, departmental or team projects ensuring payroll and pension advice is provided to improve the service provision.
• To ensure compliance with all pension and statutory regulations including reporting.
• To participate in the continuous review and maintenance of all payroll controls
• Ensure all transactions are processed/follow up actions carried out in accordance with relevant timescales and procedures are correctly followed checking exception reports after pay run.
• To ensure the accuracy of each payroll prior to BACS transmission
• Support the payroll team interpret statutory maternity/paternity/adoption regulations for staff, and officers.
• Identify and investigate any anomalies and ensure queries are promptly resolved. Provide service in accordance with agreed working practices.
• To participate in the review of business processes to ensure compliance with legislation/policies/pension regulations and the payroll software solution. Identifying any changes as necessary, working with wider stakeholders including HR and Finance to ensure interdependencies between all areas are considered.

Experience and Qualifications

• Proven experience of end-to-end payroll processing, delivering a high quality, customer focused service.
• Experience of resolving complex payroll issues ensuring compliance with appropriate statutory regulations.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work with competing deadlines and deal positively with change
• Excellent administration skills with high attention to detail to manage information and data
• Experience in using different computer software including a HR/Payroll or ERP solution.

Desirable

• Experience of public sector pension schemes
• Experience of system implementation
• Understanding of police officer regulations and police staff terms and conditions

If you have the skills for this role, please apply. Should your CV be shortlisted, one of our Recruitment Consultants at Adecco will be in touch. Many thanks.

Adecco acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. The Adecco Group UK & Ireland is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

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