Please note that interviews are scheduled to be held week commencing 6th January 2020.

About Us

Essex County Council (ECC) is one of the largest and most dynamic local authorities in the UK, serving a population of 2 million residents, and has a very successful track record of delivering transformational change. ECC anticipated change was needed in the public sector and has worked to deliver better quality at lower cost. We are changing the way we think, the way we work, and the ways in which we deliver our services. We are committed to becoming a place where individuals, partners and communities feel proud to play their role and genuinely want to belong.

About The Role

The Payroll team provides a comprehensive service using technology to better support our employees and enable an empowered self-service and support function.

The Payroll Specialist will contribute to the on-going development of the Payroll service
operating model. Providing specialist advice and guidance in respect of all statutory
requirements. The role ensures excellence of service across the department by contributing to change management and ensuring the function is configured for continuous improvement.

The Opportunity

This is a permanent role responsible for acting as the payroll technical specialist, to provide advice across the Council and to external customers, on tax matters, pension, managing compliance, risk and liaising with HMRC. This role will be a subject matter expert on all major statutory and system changes.

About You

You will have significant experience in HMRC compliance with a good working knowledge of pensions, preferably in the public sector. In addition have a good working knowledge of complex pay queries including the use of payroll systems. Delivering specialist technical payroll advice across the council you will be involved in delivering statutory changes and reporting including the development of our systems and testing.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service. The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate. This is an annual subscription and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained.

Essex County Council is proud to offer an excellent benefits package to all its employees.

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

We seek the best talent from the widest pool of people as diversity is key to our success.