Contract Day Rate - Outside IR35 - 4 days a week role - Flexible on location with 1 day per week on-site
We are currently looking for a Senior Payroll Manager who will have the accountability for the delivery of the UK Payroll for their technology function, and overall responsibility to ensure all international payrolls are compliant.
Accountabilities
• Manage the team to deliver payroll processes effectively and efficiently
• Lead the team to process payroll and relevant payments, delivering accurate payments on time and effectively manage enquiries from colleagues and business teams
• Support period end activities (closing the sub ledger) and ensure correctness of payments
• Report and present KPIs to senior management
• Support the development of the service provision strategy across all locations and develop strong relationships with UK and international service providers
• Effectively manage supplier performance to achieve agreed service levels and customer satisfaction
• Continuously improve processes leveraging automation to achieve better efficiency and customer experience and working closely with Group IT to drive and adapt system changes
• Drive and support the payroll transformation programme across strategy, provider selection, customer service focus and international expansion
• Support wider business transformation programmes with relevant expertise (e.g. Finance and People Transformations), making recommendations for improvements where relevant, championing innovation and continuous improvement
• Act as a subject matter expert for payroll defining requirements and driving improvement of processes and systems to meet business requirements, performance metrics and compliance.
• Driving initiatives to enhance compliance controls and address areas of non-compliance and internal finance procedures
About you
• CIPP Foundation Degree (or equivalent)
• Experience of large payroll operations (c employees), ideally across multiple international markets
• Strong demonstrable experience of people management (team of 4 FTE, incl 6 dotted line reports)
• Significant experience of payroll and HRIS applications, ideally including implementation and transformation
• Experience of customer service focused delivery in an international / global environment
• Significant experience of UK payroll, benefits and related HMRC legislation