Payroll Manager
Permanent
£40-50,000pa
Leicestershire
Hybrid
New Payroll Manager Opportunity!
This is a great opportunity to head the Payroll function of a large successful Leicester based manufacturing business that is continuously evolving and experiencing positive change. This opportunity presents a fantastic challenge for a seasoned Payroll Manager with a track record of success in joining payroll functions, identifying and implementing new smarter processes to improve accuracy and productivity, while motivating the team to complete the day to day payroll duties. If you are looking for your next move whereby you can really apply all of your payroll expertise acquired to date and want to make your mark in a new business, this is the opportunity for you.
About the Role:
The role is full time (40 hours) and hybrid, offering up to 3 days working from home and sits within the wider HR and Talent department of 15 strong, reporting into the HR Director.
As the Payroll Manager you will be responsible for a payroll team of 2, and the monthly payroll and pensions processes for over 1500 UK and Ireland based employees, in addition to auditing the payroll for multiple countries.
You will be tasked with bringing new ideas to the team and continuously heading up various payroll projects new and existing, while maintaining the payroll system, and be a part of the positive and continuous improvement to the payroll function. In return, you will play a key part of the overall success of the payroll function and have the autonomy to positively impact the team with process improvement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage a team of 2 payroll administrators.
- Full responsibility for processing the monthly payroll for circa 1500 employees.
- Stay abreast of all payroll related changes both legislative and market driven, and instruct the business accordingly on the impact, suggesting modifications to policy/process to ensure compliance or to enhance colleague experience.
- Ensure all files to HMRC are processed as expected.
- Perform all year end tasks including P11D's and PSA.
- Managing the Auto Enrolment administration process.
- Ensure the master data system is regularly reviewed and maintained.
- Own and continuously improve the service delivered to colleagues/employees against agreed business outcomes and performance targets.
- Mentor, develop and support with the payroll team.
- Respond to payroll escalations and resolving any issues.
- Ensure high levels of customer service are always maintained.
- Reporting on payroll costs and payroll reconciliations for the finance team.
- Build strong alliances with the Finance, Reward and HR functions.
Ideally you will have:
- Extensive expertise in leading and delivering a fully 'in-house' UK payroll service in excess of 1,000 headcount.
- Experience of leading and developing a team of payroll clerks, with an enthusiastic management style.
- Good knowledge of Payroll & Auto Enrolment Legislation.
- Knowledge of SSP, SMP, and includes all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements related to tax year end compliance.
- CIPP qualification or be qualified by experience.
- Highly numerate with proven ability to collate, display and interpret data to provide insight to management.
- Demonstrated within your career experience of working and delivering within a high volume in customer service delivery environment.
- Proactive approach to work, able to problem solve, identifying, analysing and document issues, and drive resolution.
- Deadline driven and able to deal with volume work in pressurised situations.
- Must have a self-starter, motivated, can-do attitude with a drive and willingness to learn.
- A good knowledge of maintaining and testing HR/Payroll systems
- Experience of working with Zellis Resource- link and multiple payroll systems including Time and attendance.
What's on offer:
- A competitive salary depending on experience £40-50,000pa.
- 10% company performance related bonus.
- Private Medical Care.
- Pension scheme -7% employer contribution.
- 20 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, with an option to buy up to 5 days each year.
- Modern open plan office with free on-site parking.
- On site gym and canteen.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Career growth opportunities long term including support with professional qualifications
- Plus much much more!
Please apply if this sounds like something you are interested in.
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