Pay and Benefits Data Entry Clerk

Closing date: 07/05/2023

Reference: REQ104531

37 hours / Permanent

21,189 *

Aberystwyth

About the role

We are looking to recruit a Pay and Benefits Data Entry Clerk to join our People and Organisation service.

About the role

We’re recruiting for a Pay and Benefits Data Entry Clerk to join our Payroll team on a permanent basis, based at our Aberystwyth office.

To provide support within the payroll section to help ensure the efficient, accurate and timely running of the payroll process. Our People and Organisation service provides a wide range of services to the 3,500 people that work for the local authority. The People and Organisation service comprises of HR, Pay and Benefits, Learning and Development and Health and Safety teams. We are a forward-thinking service with ambitious plans to improve the way we receive process and communicate information to our people to ensure we are an efficient team providing a high-quality service to the organisation.

About the candidate

The candidate should have exceptional attention to detail, work to deadlines and be able to work efficiently as part of a team. Existing payroll experience or transferrable skills in using spreadsheets, processing timesheets or accounting would be desirable.

Training and support will be provided through mandatory e-learning and one-to-one support with experienced members of the team to achieve the knowledge and skills required for the post. For this we would require someone with good ICT skills with some level of experience using payroll or accounting software and/or spreadsheets, most importantly though, the desire to learn and develop. The role will involve regular communications with employees, therefore we would expect the candidate to be customer focused, comfortable on the phone and able to respond to emails in a professional manner, both in English and Welsh.

The candidate will need to show flexibility and commitment to meet our monthly payroll deadlines and timescales.

Due to the requirements of the role the successful candidate must have a level of Welsh fluency on appointment. Please see the person specification for the further details.

Our offer to you

We are committed to developing our people and will not only provide support to enable you to quickly and confidently take ownership of this role’s key areas of responsibility but in addition, we are committed to supporting your development in order that you can progress your career with us.

In exchange for your skills and commitment we will offer you a range of employee benefits including flexible working, competitive annual leave allowance, enhanced family benefits, lifestyle savings and employee health and wellbeing packages.

We believe work-life balance is very important. To support you in achieving this, you will have access to the following discretionary benefits:

• Hybrid Working: Subject to certain conditions being met, you may choose to work from home or in an office location.
• Flexi-time: Hours may be worked within a defined bandwidth, Monday to Friday, subject to service needs.

More information about our wide-ranging employee benefits can be found on our careers website.

Additional Information

Job Description and Person Specification

Get in touch

For further information and an informal discussion regarding this post please contact Sharon Burns on 01970633144 or email Sharon.burns@ceredigion.gov.uk

Note: We reserve the right to change the application window so it that it closes earlier or later than currently advertised.

What we offer

Work-life balance

Lifestyle savings scheme

Generous employer pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Learning and development

Where you'll work

We support the organisation in attracting, developing and retaining a workforce that will deliver services of the highest quality to the citizens of Ceredigion. Our key responsibilities include:

• Human Resources Advice and Administration: Contracts, Absence; Appraisals; Contracts; Disciplinaries; Grievance; Job evaluation; Managing change; Recruitment and onboarding.
• Health, Safety and Wellbeing: Advice; Compliance; Risk assessments.
• Learning and Development: E-learning; Events; Qualifications panel; Training.
• Engagement and Wellbeing: Ceri+; Internal Communications; Recruitment Marketing.
• Pay and Benefits: Payroll; Pensions; Timesheets.
• Systems: Ceri System and Development; Data and Reporting.