SYP - Finance Payroll Assistant (Oracle Project) - Nov 2022

Role: Finance Payroll Assistant (Oracle Project)

Department: Corporate Finance (Oracle Project)

Location:  Carbrook, Sheffield   

Salary: £21,432 - £23,100

Hours: 37 hours per week         

Contract Type: Temporary until 31.03.24

We require a Payroll Assistant to work as part of the project  team on Oracle Cloud Payroll and Expenses project within the Finance Payroll Department. You will work with the Overtime and Expenses Team offer Admin support to the project and take an active role in User Acceptance Testing programmes to ensure Oracle systems upgrades and legislative patches are applied correctly. 

Skills and experience:

• Taking an active role in assisting the Snr Payroll Officer with system development and problem solving.

• Have experience of using a computer based payroll/expenses system.
• Become familiar with carrying out all variation inputs to employee records in the Oracle system for Payroll and Pensions for four payrolls specifically for voluntary deductions, change of bank details, student loans and tax codes.  Understand how to set new Police Pensioners, change of personal details.  Quality checking data input into the Oracle System in relation to Pay in the old and new Payroll system.
• Understand and learn how to administer employee mileage, allowance and expenses in line with legislation and force policy.   Become responsible for the administration of Police and Staff overtime and time-off; ensuring all overtime receives by the deadlines is checked, coded and entered into the relevant pay period.
• Understand how to process third party voluntary deductions, preparing the Vouchers and Pro-forma invoices to discharge the force liability and ensuring the necessary authorisation is applied.
• IT skills in relation to systems reporting tools, Word, Excel and email.  
• Experience in interrogating a computerised payroll system.
• Ability to learn new procedures and interpret and advise them to stakeholders

For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position, please refer to the attached role profile.

Benefits:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

• Generous annual leave allowance
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Generous ‘family’ leave
• Voluntary CPD Events for all staff to allow continuous development
• Mentoring & Coaching Scheme
• Paid Professional Subscriptions when relevant to role
• Access to a range of occupational health facilities
• Generous pension scheme
• Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
• Additional benefits for Westfield Health members
• Cycle to work scheme
• Sports and Social Club

Eligibility:

Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity.  A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

The Force is currently reviewing the Appearance and Standards Policy, with particular focus to Tattoos.  All visible tattoos will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, pending consultation of the Policy review.  Until such time, please do not be discouraged from applying to the Force as any visible tattoos will be discussed on a case-by-case basis.  Any tattoo which could be deemed inappropriate, or cause offence will not be accepted.  If you have tattoos, you will need to make a declaration at the time of application.

South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:

Please find attached information sheet on South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values. The force has a particular focus on three areas, Fairness, Integrity and Trust. Under each of these three headings there are key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Closing Date:

Wednesday 30th November 2022 at 23:55

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Talent Acquisition Manager and the Line Manager for the role.

Contact point for applicants:

For further information about the role, please contact Julie Read on 0114 2523450.  Please do not contact this number for an application form.

Further Information:

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Diversity & Inclusion:

South Yorkshire Police welcomes applications from under-represented communities.  For further information on diversity and inclusion within South Yorkshire Police, please visit the diversity and inclusion page:

https://www.southyorkshire.police.uk/sign-up/join-team-syp/diversity-in-the-force/

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.

Note to candidates:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage, the relevant internal or external pre-employment checks are required.  These include vetting clearance or review, prior to being appointed to the new role and start date being agreed.

Apply for the role:

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Internal Secondments:

To apply for this post as a secondment, you must have the support of your current Line Manager. This should be sent via email to the Hiring Line Manager.  Please ensure that the role title and the closing date are stated in the subject of your email.

Without support, your application will not be considered any further.