Senior HR Consultant

Senior HR Consultant (Pay, Benefits & Pensions)

Waverley Court

Salary: £46,023 - £54,476

Hours:

36 per week, 52 weeks (working pattern: Monday to Friday)

We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Senior HR Consultant to play a key role within our Payroll, Benefits & pension Team to manage end-to-end payroll operations, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant salary payments for all staff and all 3rd party payments. This is an exciting opportunity available within our HR Payroll, Benefits & Pension team as we are recruiting for 1 permanent position.

• Lead a specialist team of Payroll, Benefits & Pension specialists to ensure delivery of payroll/benefit services and operations to employees, managers and external customers.
• Support the ongoing development of services, including the benefits platform, and provision to colleagues to drive continuous improvement.
• Deliver regulatory compliance with statutory bodies through robust controls and measures, whilst also fulfilling high levels of accuracy and customer satisfaction.
• Support wider HR projects and initiatives that support the Council's strategic objectives.

• Strong customer focus and flexible approach with the ability to work in a demanding deadline-driven environment.
• Experience in payroll, benefits, and pension operations and compliance.

As part of our goal to improve organisational culture and create a great place to work together for the people of Edinburgh, we will assess how you would bring Our Behaviours of Respect, Integrity and Flexibility into your ways of working.

We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce where everyone feels valued and able to be their best. We particularly encourage applications from women for senior roles, as well as people from minority ethnic backgrounds, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, care experienced people, carers and LGBT+ people across all levels of the organisation, all of whom are currently underrepresented.

All applicants will be considered fairly based on skills and experience. Disabled and care-experienced applicants who meet the minimum job criteria will be guaranteed an interview.

Happy to talk flexible working.

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