Payroll Information and Systems Officer Part Time

Location: Brighton – Moulsecoomb

Salary: £30,505 to £33,882 pro rata

Closing Date:  Thursday 24 October 2024

Interview Date:  To be confirmed

Reference: FI5086-24-147-R

In this interesting and varied post, you will be responsible for generating and producing reports and information for use by the Payroll Team, Finance Department, and wider university. Also assisting with the maintenance and development of the payroll systems.

You will work with the Head of Payroll and Deputy on payroll and pension related projects (such as the move to monthly pensions reporting), leading on smaller projects. You will suggest ways to improve or automate processes and implement developments that will add value, save time, or increase data quality, using excellent Excel skills to integrate and organise reports from and to our payroll software (ResouceLink) and from other sources such as Business Objects and our claims system (VT2000). Prior knowledge of these specific systems is not required.

Acting as the primary recipient of payroll related reporting data requests, you will take ownership and use several reporting tools to provide accurate and timely data to internal and external customers, such as our pension providers, on an ad hoc, monthly, or annual basis.

You will need to have, or gain, an understanding of general payroll and pensions work, to assist in the resolution of general queries coming from staff or providers, for example via the helpdesk or validation errors generated from returns. You may also be required to assist other members of the team as with more general payroll/pensions work as workloads fluctuate.

To succeed, you will need:

• Ability to utilise a wide range of functions in Excel.
• Experience of working and prioritising several projects simultaneously
• Ability to handle confidential data and information in a sensitive and professional way.
• To work both independently and collaboratively to achieve results.
• The ability to spot and investigate anomalies in relevant data extracts.
• An understanding of good project management.
• Experience of working in a Pensions/Payroll or Finance setting.

The University is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment for all staff regardless of age, disability, family or caring responsibilities, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief (including non-belief), sex and sexual orientation. We embrace equality and diversity in our working, learning, research and teaching environment and are committed to maintaining a supportive and inclusive community. We particularly encourage applicants from Minority Ethnic backgrounds because the University is under-represented by Minority Ethnic staff.

For the vast majority of our roles, we operate an agile working system with time split between working on campus and at the employee’s home. It is the University’s expectation that home working will take place within the UK.

Further information about working for us, as well as the wide range of benefits we offer, can be found in the working with us section of our vacancies page.