[Hiring] System Development Officer @Torbay Council

Role Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Payroll team as a Systems Development Officer, helping us develop, improve and make the most of the systems that underpin our payroll and HR services.

• Develop and improve ResourceLink (our HR and Payroll software) and our wider HR systems.
• Use your payroll knowledge to solve problems and ensure system changes are effective and compliant with HMRC.
• Identify opportunities for automation, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Support configuration, testing, upgrades, and new developments for payroll and HR needs.
• Help develop our reporting and insight, including our growing use of Power BI.

Qualifications

• Good practical understanding of payroll.
• Experience of working with payroll software.
• Curiosity to understand and improve existing processes.
• Analytical and accurate with a willingness to learn.

Requirements

• Experience of payroll processing and producing a cyclical payroll.
• Ability to work under own initiative.
• Ability to work on projects within timescales and resource limits.
• Ability to react to changing priorities and deadlines.
• High levels of accuracy with the ability to handle high volumes of detail and data-driven workload.

Benefits

• All team members currently work from home on a permanent basis.
• Office-based working environment can also be accommodated if preferred.