Department of Corporate Resources

Revenues, Benefits & Payroll

Payroll & Pension Liaison Manager – Revenues, Benefits & Payroll

Band PO5/6:   £44,539 to £49,590 pa

1 x 37 hours per week

Permanent

Based at Britannia House, Bradford City Centre / Hybrid working

We are looking to recruit a highly effective, experienced and motivated Payroll & Pension Liaison Manager.  This is a permanent post which will be focused on providing a professional end to end payroll and pension liaison function to Bradford Council and a variety of external customers.

You will be working closely with other teams within the Council, particularly with HR, IT and Finance as well as with a large number of external customers including large multi academy trusts to ensure high levels of service delivery.

The ideal candidate will have expert knowledge and experience of managing and delivering a payroll service with a key focus on customer service and business improvement and will have knowledge and appreciation of the pressures in the payroll industry and ideally in the local authority and education field.  Experience of SAP systems will be an advantage.

As a key member of the Revenues, Benefits & Payroll Management team the post holder will have responsibility for leading the Payroll & Pension Liaison Service including management responsibility for a team of up to 50 of senior officers, team managers and payroll & pension liaison officers.

The successful candidate will have a strong customer focus and will be able to work effectively and collaboratively with the colleagues and key stakeholders across the Council, the wider District and with the relevant Central Government Agencies. 

Additional benefits include:

• Flexitime
• Access to salary sacrifice schemes
• Excellent annual leave entitlement
• Hybrid working

For further information regarding this post please contact Jagdeep Kang - Head of Business Rates & Accounts Collection Team on 07814833361 or email  jagdeep.kang@bradford.gov.uk 

The Code of Practice on the English language requirement for public sector workers Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 requires that Councils ensure that all candidates applying for customer facing posts must be assessed in order to establish their fluency in English.

The criteria under special knowledge and experience on the job profile, which is shown in this advert, outlines what level of fluency you will be expected to demonstrate. Therefore, it is essential that you provide examples in your application.  This should be kept short and concise. You must ensure that you refer to the KEY competencies from your JOB PROFILE as a minimum requirement for the advert.

Closing date:     18th July 2023

Please find attached the Job Profile:  Payroll and Pension Liaison Manager - JP.pdf