Location: Leicester
Role: Payroll & HR Manager
Salary: £45,000 - £50,000p.a, Permanent - Full Time
The Role:
In this role, you'll be the driving force behind our payroll and HR operations, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. You'll lead a dedicated team, providing guidance and support to ensure our processes are not only compliant with current legislation but also user-friendly for our employees. Working closely with finance, IT, and external payroll partners, you'll ensure all systems are optimised.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and mentor the payroll and HR services team, focusing on team development and performance.
- Oversee the precise and timely execution of payroll and HR transactions, ensuring employees experience seamless processing of their salaries, benefits, taxes, and employment changes.
- Take full ownership of the payroll process from start to finish, including monthly payroll cycles, tax obligations, pensions, and statutory payments.
- Supervise annual payroll tasks, ensuring data accuracy and meeting all reporting and filing deadlines.
- Maintain compliance with relevant laws and internal policies, covering areas such as taxation, data privacy, and audits.
- Handle HR operations, including employment contracts, onboarding and offboarding procedures, leave management, and maintenance of employee records.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to managers and employees on payroll and HR matters, offering clear guidance on pay, benefits, and policies.
- Cultivate a service-oriented mindset within the HR team, ensuring prompt and effective responses to employee and management inquiries.
- Track and report on performance metrics and service levels, proactively addressing any discrepancies or issues.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including internal teams like finance and IT, as well as external service providers.
- Collaborate with the Reward Manager to manage and administer employee benefits and incentives, supporting annual reviews and renewals.
- Lead efforts to enhance payroll and HR systems, driving improvements through automation and streamlined processes.
- Develop and enforce HR policies and procedures, ensuring consistent communication and adherence across the organization.
- Analyse HR data and trends, providing insights and recommendations to inform decision-making.
- Stay current with industry best practices and trends in payroll and HR, implementing changes to keep our operations cutting-edge.
About you:
- Demonstrated experience in payroll and HR
- Strong understanding of payroll and HR legislation, practices, and technology.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- High-level analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Proven ability to lead a team, manage multiple priorities, and meet deadlines under pressure.
- A proactive attitude toward process improvements and system enhancements.
What's In It for You?
- Options to purchase additional annual leave days
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements (3 days in the office, 2 days from home)
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Group Personal Pension
- Company-funded Healthcare Cash Plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Commitment to ongoing professional development
- 24/7 Wellbeing and Employee Support
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