Are you looking for a more meaningful opportunity to add real value as a Payroll Manager?
Location: Northampton
Salary: up to £50,000 depending on experience
You can achieve more at St Andrew's Healthcare
St Andrew's Healthcare is a charity providing specialist mental healthcare services. We work in partnership with a number of NHS, voluntary, educational and research organisations to deliver a range of specialist inpatient and community mental healthcare services, education and research that helps to improve the lives of people with complex mental health needs.
The role
In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that all our payroll activity is effective and in line with performance standards. You will be responsible for the day to day payroll workflow ensuring that processes are delivered effectively and to the appropriate time and financial control parameters. You will also develop the current operating procedures, streamlining these where required and updating them in accordance with any changes across the Charity. This role will be key in delivering continuous improvement and change activity.
You will also act as an escalation point in relation to any payroll related issues and queries and will work closely with both Human Resources and Finance. You will be responsible for leading a team of staff who will provide an expert payroll service to our colleagues across the Charity.
We are currently undertaking a review to replace our current SAP on-premise payroll system; you will act as the payroll process owner and be instrumental in the design and implementation phases. You will work with the project team in developing the supporting processes, identifying opportunities for efficiencies, training the payroll team and embedding the resulting changes across all business areas.
Your BAU responsibilities will include:
- Ensuring overall effective time management and control in relation to the delivery of our payroll processes
- Ensuring accurate control of payroll processing, taking the lead in payroll reconciliations and qualitative checks in line with financial control requirements
- Ensuring the effective co-ordination of month end and year end payroll processing
- To ensure collaboration across HR Services to deliver response to change and a culture of continuous improvement.
- Managing the ongoing review of problems or issues and continually delivering solutions and improved ways of working
- Contributing to the planning and co-ordination of ad-hoc project related activity in response to wider business change.
- Working with HR Services Management team colleagues to deliver an improved presence of HR Services within the Charity that delivers to agreed SLA's.
More about you
You will be an enthusiastic, positive and collaborative payroll leader with a strong attention to detail and strong numerical and problem solving skills. You will be a recognised payroll expert with a brilliant knowledge of PAYE and NI legislative requirements. You will need to have significant experience working in a high volume transactional environment supporting HR and Finance processes and a passion for continuous improvement. Experience of working with established payroll systems is essential. Experience of having involvement in payroll system replacement or implementation projects is highly desirable.
You will also be highly experienced in successfully managing teams and projects, and embody the Charity's CARE values of Compassion, Accountability Respect and Excellence in all you do.
Rewards
As well as a competitive salary we offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to a wide range of free vocational qualifications and learning and development opportunities. On-site facilities such as gym and swimming pool access and cafés, all set within beautiful grounds.
Interested?
Then we'd love you to apply here.
If you would like an informal discussion about this opportunity, please contact Kerrie Edwards on or James Farrelly on
Closing Date: 26th August 2024