Payroll Manager
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
£45-50,000pa
Leicester
New exciting Payroll Manager Opportunity!
This is a great opportunity to join a large successful business with a well-known brand based in Leicester and support the Payroll function for a period of 12 months. This opportunity presents a fantastic challenge for a seasoned Payroll professional with extensive Payroll Management experience with a track record of 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.
About the Role:
The role is full time and office based and sits within the Payroll function reporting into the People Services Manager who is also ultimately responsible for the Payroll Function.
As the Payroll Manager you will be responsible for a payroll team of 4, and the payroll and pensions processes for over 2000 UK based employees.
You will be tasked with bringing new ideas to the team and continuously heading up various payroll projects throughout the 12 months, 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 4 payroll administrators.
- Full responsibility for processing the payroll accurately and on time, in accordance with Company and legislative guidelines.
- 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.
- Ensure the master data system is regularly reviewed, maintained, and upgraded with the latest legislative parameters and tested thoroughly.
- Own and continuously improve the service delivered to colleagues/employees against agreed business outcomes and performance targets.
- Encourage and support with the development of payroll team.
- Reporting on payroll costs and payroll reconciliations for the finance team to allocate.
- Be the first point of escalation.
Ideally you will have:
- Expertise in leading and delivering a fully 'in-house' UK payroll service in excess of 2,000 headcount, managing a team of payroll clerks.
- Evidence in your career of knowledge of payroll legislation. This includes (but is not exhaustive) SSP, SMP, and includes all statutory and regulatory reporting requirements related to tax year end compliance.
- Experience of calculating and processing payroll deductions.
- CIPP qualification or be qualified by experience.
- A good knowledge of maintaining and testing HR/Payroll systems.
- 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 demonstrate a strong technical knowledge of payroll processes.
What's on offer:
- A competitive salary depending on experience £45-50,000pa.
- 12 months security from a fixed term contract.
- 25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
- Modern open plan office with free on-site parking.
- An opportunity to really make a positive impact on this Payroll function at a time when your support is in much need.
Please apply if this sounds like something you are interested in.
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