Employee Self Service (ESS)
All Moray Council employees have 24/7 access to a fully secure and user-friendly Employee Self Service portal (ESS).
All new employees MUST now enter their own Bank Account Details directly to ESS to enable them to get paid by BACs on their pay day.
You can also:
- View and update all your Personal information and view your Employment information
- View and download your current and historical Payslips and P60’s
- View your record of Sickness Absences
Getting started:
Your Username and password will have been emailed out to you already from payroll@moray.gov.uk
Username: will normally be your firstname.surname but check your email to make sure
Password: for your first login it will be set as your National Insurance number in the following format:
First 2 letters in upper case, 6 numbers, last letter in lower case
Click on the Login button
You will be prompted to set a new password which must consist of Upper case letters, Lower case letters and numbers and be at least 8 characters long.
You will then be asked to Secure your account, to do this you must use an authenticator app, either
- Google Authenticator or
- Microsoft Authenticator
Both are available via iOS App Store and Google Play Store if you don’t already have one.
Follow instructions on the screen to link your authenticator app with Employee Self Service.
You will then be presented with the Final Step page which has your recovery code which MUST be copied and saved to your own safe location in case you need to reset your authenticator app at any time.
Click on Continue.
Click on this Launch ESS button. PLEASE NOTE: ESS only supports Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers.
User Guide for Employee Self Service
Accessing payslips from Apple devices
If employees do not know their Username, Normal Password or Memorable Password for logging into Employee Self Service (ESS) then they can now sort these themselves by using the Forgotten Username, Forgotten Password or Forgotten Memorable Password functionality. This is the link to the document that explains how these work. Employees should always attempt this first before contacting the Payroll Section for help.
User Guide for Forgotten Username or Passwords
Contact us
If you are having problems accessing ESS or have a query with what you are being paid please either call 01343 563100 or email payroll@moray.gov.uk