SYP - Payroll Officer (Oracle Project) - November 2022

Role: Payroll Officer (Oracle Project)

Department: Corporate Finance (Oracle Project)

Location:  Carbrook, Sheffield   

Salary: £27,690 - £31,434

Hours: 37 hours per week         

Contract Type: Temporary until 31.03.24

We require an experience Payroll Officer to play an active role in the  implementation of Oracle Cloud Payroll, to support the Finance and Payroll Lead's in the designing of the system, Payroll element design, reporting requirements, testing and training.  You will have an understand all aspects of Payroll and Finance Reporting . 

Initially the role will be assisting in providing Payroll information to our Pensions department to assist in the Police Pensions Remedy process.  

You will:

• Have an understanding of occupational pension schemes and the calculation of contributions and the effect on taxable pay.  
• Have experience of interrogating an integrated HR/Payroll System  (Oracle). 
• Have good Excel Spreadsheet skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with our SME’s, and input into the programme and design of the system
• Actively support and help deliver any Payroll actions ensuring the are achieved by given deadline
• Work with SME’s to understand the current processes, regulation, policy, statutory and legislation, work with the HR Technical,  Finance ,Payroll Leads and SME’s to produce business requirements and design specification
• Work with the Payroll Lead to ensure all procedures and  process maps for both on and off system processes are mapped, process owners are identified and work with the Business Analysts to understand both current and future effort and productivity are documented and understood.
• Work with the Payroll Lead where required, to contribute to the re-engineer processes to adapt to the new system and ensure improved efficiency
• With the change team, develop the hyper care package for the Payroll and HR functional area ensuring adequate training is available/undertaken.

Skills and experience:

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.