Kent Fire and Rescue Service (KFRS) has an exciting opportunity available for a Payroll and Pensions Officer to join our team in Maidstone. You will join us on a full-time, permanent basis, and in return, you will receive a competitive salary of £26,457 - £34,061 per annum .
Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue Service
Everyone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers, we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway.
Being a Payroll and Pensions Officer at KFRS
As part of a small team, you will play an important part in ensuring that we deliver great customer service to our colleagues. You will support the Payroll and Pensions Manager in the management of all day-to-day payroll and pensions activity ensuring accuracy, compliance with legislative requirements, and adherence to all deadlines. You will also support ad-hoc payroll and pensions project work and the development of systems and processes to provide an efficient and effective service to all customers.
What you'll do
- Input, calculate and check payroll data including; statutory payments (i.e. maternity, paternity, sickness, redundancy) and deductions (i.e. salary sacrifice, court orders, third party).
- Undertake all necessary activity to ensure compliance with payroll and pensions legislation and policies (i.e. auto-enrolment, pay awards, employee contribution re-bandings, pension scheme membership).
- Undertake all necessary activity to ensure compliance with payroll and pensions reporting requirements and deadlines (i.e. starters and leavers, pension leaver details, monthly pension returns, The Pensions Regulator).
- Assist in the management, co-ordination and response to payroll and pensions related queries and complaints from customers.
- Assist in ad-hoc project work to improve systems and processes or to implement changes in payroll and pensions legislation.
- Assist in the production of payroll and pensions information to be published on the Authority's website.
What you'll bring
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Excellent organisation skills with the ability to work to deadlines, which are occasionally subject to conflicting demands.
- Ability to work on own initiative and with minimum supervision.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with a wide range of internal and external customers in a clear and concise manner.
Benefits we're offering
- Automatic membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
- Blue Light Card discount scheme
- Hybrid working
- A range of family friendly policies including promoting work-life balance
- Access to health and wellbeing services and advice
- Access to LinkedIn Learning online training
- Free parking
- Above all you'll become part of a service that is committed to the safety of our community
Closing date: Midnight on 23rd August 2024
Interviews will take place on 9 September.
If you feel have the skills and experience to become our Payroll and Pensions Officer please click ‘apply' today, we'd love to hear from you!
Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don't think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer.
Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees, and volunteers are committed to safeguarding, protecting, and supporting children, young people, and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people, and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks.
As a Public Sector organisation with added responsibilities under the Equality Act, 2010 the candidate must demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion and how this fits in with their everyday work.