Payroll Administrator

Payroll Administrator - Moray Council

To input employee payroll, travel and subsistence data to the payroll system, processing the Council's six payrolls which produce over 62,000 payslips per year. Working within a team structure where workloads rotate according to priorities and responsibilities as allocated, this includes all associated payroll and admin tasks, applying five different terms and conditions and operating two different pension schemes.

Under the Disclosure (Scotland) Act 2020, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a Disclosure Check.

• Prepares, verifies and inputs data to appropriate systems
• Manual pay calculations
• Processing and reconciliation of pay runs
• Reconciliation of payroll control accounts
• Remittances to Unions, AVC providers and other third parties
• Process over/under payments
• Operate the Local Government and Teachers pension schemes
• Operate salary sacrifice schemes implemented by the Council
• Process and operate pensioner payroll
• Handle various enquiries both written and verbal
• To provide training to staff

• Experience of working within a finance section
• A high level of IT literacy with competence in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Understanding of finance control and administration
• Effective numerical skills
• Finance/Administration HNC qualification
• Payroll qualification e.g. IPPM or Payroll Alliance (if not already held, must be willing to undertake qualification within 3 years)
• Procedural skills
• Good organisational skills
• Knowledge of payroll processes and statutory regulations
• A flexible approach to new working practices and technology and ability to implement new procedures
• Ability to switch between tasks easily
• Ability to work on own initiative when required to specified deadlines
• Analytical and research skills
• Able to maintain confidentiality
• Able to work as part of a team and using own initiative
• Very good communicator – verbal and written
• Work under pressure to tight deadlines
• Ability to work in an open plan office
• Flexibility to meet the needs and demands of the service

Closing date: 9th January 2026

Starting Salary: £28,520.05

36.25 hours per week

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Entry level

Full-time

Human Resources

Accounting