Payroll Team Leader

Job summary

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

Would you like the opportunity to join a progressive and forward thinking Payroll and Pensions service?

Our friendly and thriving HR and Wellbeing Business Services currently has 5 clients. Providing a high quality payroll and pension service to approx. 24,000 employees which equates to producing over 310,000 payslips annually whilst consistently delivering accuracy rates of 99.37%.

We take pride in listening and continuously working with our clients to deliver efficiencies, reducing costs whilst remaining a personal service

We are looking to recruit two full time Payroll Team Leaders, with a passion and commitment to drive the service forward together with a proven record of excellent customer service. The candidate will be required to lead a team and be able to demonstrate you can use your initiative to solve problems in order for strict payroll deadlines to be adhered to. Our ideal candidate will also need to have in depth knowledge of the payroll service including ESR, NHS terms and conditions and statutory payments such as SSP, SMP, SAP, Student Loans and Attachment of Earning orders.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to participate in a selection process, which will comprise of the following:

• a practical assessment,
• a formal interview

Main duties of the job

Accountable to the Payroll/ESR Team Manager(s), the post holder will be responsible for providing a professional operational Payroll/ESR service to the clients of the HR Shared Service. To ensure that the ESR Payroll Module is able to be processed within agreed deadlines and producing accurate and prompt salary payments to all staff in accordance with all statutory, regulatory and policy requirements.

To liaise and communicate with Managers and Staff at all levels to advise on complex payroll queries.

To carry out complex financial calculations and analyse detailed data to identify any areas of error or discrepancy.

The post holder will provide day to day supervision of more junior staff, allocating workloads and checking work, with overall ownership of the ESR record

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust consists of a 600 bedded large District General Hospital, which provides its services on the Countess of Chester Health Park, and a 64 bedded Intermediate Care Service at Ellesmere Port Hospital.The Trust provides services in all of the surgical and medical specialties common to a District General Hospital with some specialist services. The Trust serves the whole of the local population currently in excess of 250,000 residents which geographically covers populations in England and North Wales.The Trust strives to continuously improve and sustain the quality of its services for patients, providing care to more than 445,000 patients per year, with almost 4,000 staff working together putting quality and patient safety, at the heart of everything we do. The organisation provides a wide range of services offering health care to the whole spectrum of the population from birth to the end of life. The Trust complies with its terms of authorisation as a Foundation Trust.