Payroll Officer

Location:Kings Hill / Hybrid

Salary/package: £27,500 per annum

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

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Kent are looking for a Payroll Officer to join our busy payroll team, playing a key role in delivering accurate and timely weekly payments for our temporary workforce. Working across multiple payrolls and managing your own payrolls from start to finish, you'll thrive in a fast-paced environment where attention to detail, organisation and strong communication skills are essential. If you enjoy working to deadlines, managing competing priorities and delivering a high-quality service, we'd love to hear from you.

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Kent is part of Commercial Services Group
, providing recruitment and workforce solutions to Kent County Council. As part of CSG, we deliver high-quality, flexible recruitment services that support public sector organisations with their workforce needs, ensuring efficiency, compliance and exceptional service delivery.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring all workers and suppliers are paid accurately, on time and in line with legislation, contracts and internal processes. This is a varied position within a high-volume payroll function, where you'll manage payrolls from start to finish, resolve issues proactively and work closely with colleagues across the business to deliver an excellent payroll service.

• Managing weekly payroll processes to ensure accurate and timely payments.

• Managing your allocated payrolls from start to finish each week.

• Overseeing data imports from CRM into the Pay & Bill system and resolving exceptions.

• Reviewing warnings and errors to ensure compliance with processes and procedures.

• Completing end-to-end payroll tasks including payslips, reconciliations and pension uploads.

• Processing high volumes of holiday requests from temporary workers.

• Responding to payroll queries from managers, workers and suppliers promptly and professionally.

• Building strong working relationships with internal teams and external partners.

• Working closely with colleagues across payroll, recruitment and finance to resolve queries and maintain payroll accurate.

• Prioritising multiple tasks and deadlines within a busy payroll operation.

• Supporting improvements to reporting, processes and controls.

• Carrying out ad hoc duties as required by the Payroll Manager or Senior Payroll Officer.

• Previous experience working in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience processing weekly payrolls would be beneficial

• Experience processing weekly, temporary worker or contractor payrolls would be beneficial.

• Strong Microsoft Excel skills are desirable.

• Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship-building skills.

• The ability to multitask effectively and manage competing priorities.

• A proactive approach with the ability to learn new processes quickly.

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.

• The ability to analyse complex data and ?

• Ability to plan and prioritise workloads to meet challenging deadlines.

• Salary of £27,500 per annum

• 25 days annual leave, increasing with length of service

• Birthday Day Off

• Life assurance cover (4x salary)

• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution

• Additional benefits including retail and gym discounts, health cash plan and cycle to work scheme

• Volunteer days and access to a comprehensive wellbeing programme

• Tailored development support with real opportunities to progress

• Access to Learning & Development opportunities via our CSG Academy

• Hybrid working, Monday and Wednesday in Kings Hill

CSG is the UK’s largest local authority-owned trading company (LATCO), generating over £700 million in revenue per annum and supporting more…