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Every individual that works for us, is in some way supporting and serving the community we represent. Could you support our communities by helping to ensure all police officers and staff are paid on time within Avon and Somerset Police?

We are looking for an organised and pro-active individual to join Avon and Somerset Police as a Payroll Assistant. You will be joining the team at an exciting time as we will be implementing our new Oracle Cloud system next year which will incorporate all aspects of HR and payroll.

Working within a supportive team, you will be required to undertake a wide variety of payroll related tasks, including responding to queries, inputting payroll data to Systems Applications and Products (SAP), monitoring expenses claims, managing staff benefits, confirming pension details and processing leavers.

You will be working in either Delivery or Control & Benefits within the Payroll team. Please see the two job descriptions attached which detail the responsibilities.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Supporting with the administration of the Payroll function by promptly and accurately processing new appointments, amendments and terminations for employees.
• Ensuring statutory deductions are correct by checking the calculations produced by the payroll system.
• Identifying and investigating any anomalies/ imbalances and ensuring queries are promptly resolved.
• Processing reports and preparing documentation whilst adhering to statutory deadlines.
• Providing an excellent customer service by responding to a wide range of written and verbal enquiries from staff and other key stakeholders.

Skills and experience required:

• Knowledge and experience of working within an HR, Payroll or Finance environment
• Skilled computer user with a good knowledge of databases, word processing and spreadsheet packages
• Good numerical, analytical and problem solving skills
• Skilled communicator with the ability to build working relationships both verbally and in writing
• Excellent time management skills
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and prioritising own workload

What we can offer you:

A package of financial, lifestyle and health benefits to support whatever stage of life you're in, including:

• Flexible working
• Continuous professional development
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Employee Assistance scheme offering help through counselling services, legal advice, fitness advice, personal coaching and health assessment
  Staff discount scheme for savings on shopping, days out, sporting events, holidays
• In our Headquarters in Portishead, you’ll have access to a 24 hour gym, on-site Costa Coffee shop and beautiful grounds

We welcome applications for this role from individuals who wish to work either full time (37 hours) or part time (minimum of 18.5 hours but number of hours per week are negotiable). This is a blended role therefore the majority of your time can be spent working from home.

To be eligible to apply for this role you must have a 3 year ‘checkable history’ in the UK – ideally this means that you would have been resident in the UK for the last 3 years.

Does this sound like the role for you? Click the link below to apply.