Payroll Manager

We are currently supporting the recruitment of a Payroll Manager for our client based in Kettering. Our client works with SME organisation to deliver both HR and payroll services across the UK. You will be working in a small team and reporting to the Operations Director and managing a team of three.

• Circa £40,000 dependent upon experience
• Monday to Friday 9.00am-5.30pm (30 mins lunch) 40 hour working week
• This will be a hybrid role and will be 2/3 days in the office
• 25 days holiday plus Bank holidays
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance scheme (4 x salary)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Gym membership subsidy

Duties:

• Support to and management of payroll team members
• Review and improve payroll processes to ensure maximum efficiency
• Completion of end-to-end processing of clients payrolls for a portfolio of clients, including processing salary, PAYE, BACS and pensions payments
• To ensure sufficient cover in absence of team members
• Oversee the maintenance of payroll records for clients
• To support the payroll team in liaising with key contacts on all payroll related queries
• Oversee all payroll administration including filing, setting up new starters, HMRC tax codes
• Responsibility for calculating termination payments for leavers and statutory sickness, maternity, paternity, shared paternal leave and adoption payments etc
• Processing of P11Ds
• Processing increases and calculation of back pay
• Processing of month end RTI submissions
• Process Tax Year End submissions for all clients
• To regularly review the payroll processes in line with legislation and make recommendations for improvement

Skills and experience required:

• CIPP qualified / or part-qualified
• Previous experience of end-to-end payroll for multiple clients payrolls (Practice or Bureau)
• Experience of payroll software Sage Payroll being advantageous and Microsoft Excel (pivot tables and VLOOKUPS)
• Experience of managing a small payroll team
• A strong team ethic with good communication skills
• Good attention to detail and the ability to organise and prioritise tasks to demanding deadlines
• Pro-active approach to identifying problems and formulating solutions