Payroll and Pensions Officer

About the vacancy: Working within our People and Organisational Development function, this is a full time, permanent vacancy working within a busy and supportive team in a fast-paced environment.  

The focus of the role is to ensure efficient delivery of the payroll and pension service through effective workload management, including payroll processing and pension administration. 

Key responsibilities include maintaining a good working knowledge of the pension schemes; to ensure that employee queries are resolved in a timely and accurate manner; ensure all payroll processing and pensions administration is completed by the required deadlines; to support the Deputy Payroll & Pensions Manager and to ensure the pension service provided is enhanced for our customers. 

About you: You will have experience of working in a large complex organisation with significant experience in all pension administration and payroll related transactions. A working knowledge of government related pension schemes for example the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) and Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) would be desirable. 

You will be comfortable using MS Office functions including Outlook, Excel, Word and be able to demonstrate equivalent skills and knowledge developed through significant experience of working in payroll and pensions. 

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed. 

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 36,000 students and 4,200 staff from right across the globe. 

In addition to progressive pay rates, we offer a wide range of employee benefits including generous annual leave and pension schemes as well as opportunities for training and personal development. 

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Multiple Heritage or Other Minority Ethnic and also male candidates as we are currently under-represented in these areas, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit. 

As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability. 

Further information

This is a full-time permanent post, working 37 hours per week over 5 days, not open to job share. 

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based with some opportunity for remote working (usually 2 days per week at the line managers discretion). 

If you would like an informal discussion, please contact Tracy Humphrey on email tracy.humphrey@uwe.ac.uk 

The University’s normal practice is that new appointments will be made at the starting point of the grade. 

We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the published end date if we receive adequate numbers of suitable candidates. 

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role all candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK. 

Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.

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