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Payroll and Pensions Assistant Job in B19, Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Job Description
Our Finance & Business Hub provides essential high-quality, responsive, and agile enabling services to the West Midlands Combined Authority and its directorates in areas such as human resources, procurement, commercial investments, assurance and appraisal, financial control and administration, and financial and business planning and performance reporting.
We are a cohesive team of forward thinking, insightful, innovative and high-performing professionals who, through our consultative and business partnering approach, influence, support and coach managers and senior leaders to help them achieve business objectives. By doing so, we help to ensure sound decisions are made and it is in this capacity that we are seen as a respected point of contact within the organisation.
The role will be responsible for the provision of a professional payroll and pension service ensuring that all West Midlands Combined Authority staff, Councillors, Pensioners and staff covered under SLA’s are paid accurately and timely; ensuring that West Midlands Combined Authority complies with all current Employment Legislation, Pension Regulations and statutory payroll requirements, providing key support to the payroll team.
What will you be doing?
* Record and calculate statutory deductions in line with HMRC requirements, i.e. PAYE, SSP, SMP, SPP, SAP, FPS, EPS
* Payment and calculation of all variable pay and additional payments, to include approved monthly claims as they arise, ensuring compliance to the company policies and procedures.
* Respond to payroll and pension queries promptly and amend as necessary.
* Maintain the payroll system, via the input of payroll information.
* Payment and calculation of pension deductions, ensuring compliance to Auto-Enrolment regulations. Ensure documentation for the Local Government Pension Scheme and/or other defined contribution pension schemes (Prudential, Standard Life, NEST) for staff covered under SLA arrangements are produced, recorded and maintained.
* Produce payroll information and reconciliations; including the recording of payroll data into the finance system. Deal with any queries as necessary, with the assistance of the Payroll Officer & Manager, where required.
* Process the payment of expenses via payroll, ensuring compliance to the Travel & Expenses Policy.
* Administration of the process for corporate credit cards, ensuring compliance to the Travel & Expenses Policy
* Lead in the assessment of off-payroll workers to determine their employment status in relation to the Intermediaries Legislation (IR35) and production of the required documentation in line with processes. Including responding to queries promptly and amend as necessary.
About you
We are seeking an enthusiastic candidate who has experience of working within a fast paced payroll team. The candidate will be working with a team that has 8 different payrolls, so having the ability to prioritise workload and adhere to deadlines is a must. You will need experience of processing pension information with pension provides, coupled with experience of using computerised payroll systems.
Given the nature of our organisation, you will need knowledge of the Local Government Pension Scheme and other defined contribution pension schemes, alongside a good working knowledge of PAYE and other statutory payments / deductions.
A CIPP qualified candidate is desirable but not essential, but a foundation in finance is required (i.e. AAT).
About us
WMCA is committed to a better connected, more prosperous, fairer, greener and healthier region. This is our vision. We will achieve our vision through living our values which are central to how we work and interact with our wider partners and stakeholders.
We’re a partnership organisation. Our people feel valued and respected, have a can-do attitude and are innovators. We try new ways of doing things, we aren’t afraid to fail, learn from what went wrong and try again. Our people are empowered to be creative and explore and innovate.
We are a “Leaders in Diversity” accredited organisation, are in the Inclusive Top 50 Employers List and are one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Women. As a Disability Confident Employer, we have made a positive commitment to interviewing all applicants with a disability who meet the essential role criteria. We are committed to building a team of people with varied backgrounds and experiences as we recognise that this will only benefit us as an employer, the more inclusive we are the better our work will be.
As an organisation, we will continue to adapt and develop to the opportunities and challenges ahead. We will continue to transform ourselves and our organisation into the best we can be, underpinned by our values and behaviours and everyone contributes towards achieving our vision.
Furthermore, wherever possible we will offer flexible working options which assist work-life balance. We are very happy to discuss a flexible working pattern that suits your needs, so please do not let that be a barrier to applying. If your values align with ours and you’re committed to working towards creating a future we can all be proud of, we want to hear from you.
Location
16 Summer Lane, Birmingham, B19 3SD. Hybrid working conditions are currently in place which means working remotely and coming to the office when required.
About your application
You will be asked to upload an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria for the role for which you are applying
Job Type: Permanent, Full Time
Location: B19, Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Category: Accounting/Financial/Insurance
City: Birmingham
County: West Midlands (County)
Country: United Kingdom
Salary: £29188 – £34142/annum
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