Payroll Manager | Interim contract opportunity | 9 months | Hybrid
Reed Accountancy are delighted to be working with a charitable organisation in Belfast and are actively recruiting for a Payroll Manager to join their finance team on an interim basis for a period of 9 months.
This opportunity is full time and offers hybrid working.
The Payroll Manager will be responsible for overseeing, managing, and ensuring that the end to end monthly payroll process is completed and will manage a team of 3 payroll associates.
Specific duties will involve:
- To oversee the payroll function including management of 3 Payroll Associates including monthly payroll in 3 Jurisdictions (UK, Republic of Ireland, and Isle of Man), year-end payroll associated processes and administration of Organisation compensation and benefit schemes.
- To review and evaluate the current ways of working within the team to create efficiencies and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
- To ensure that audits are carried out on monthly temporary data entered into the payroll system to ensure accuracy and completeness and to build upon existing checks and balances to ensure the most robust procedures are in place in relation to payments made.
- To be a point of contact for payroll colleagues to escalate the most complex queries.
- To ensure that all third party payments are recorded and paid on a monthly basis including pensions, attachments, revenue.
- To work in conjunction with Management Accountants to ensure that all monthly payroll reports are compiled and reconciled in a timely manner to ensure that operational accounts can be posted on time
- To ensure payroll systems are kept up to date both in terms of operating software and data integrity and to escalate any issues that need resolved in relation to software to third party providers for resolution
Essential criteria:
Applicants will have a recognised payroll qualification and 3 years experience managing an end to end payroll process
Applicants will have experience managing a large payroll of 500+ employees
Applicants will have UK and ROI experience
Applicants will have team management experience
To find out more about this exciting opportunity, please apply via the link or contact Lizzy Lyons in confidence.