Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Senior Payroll Manager for a 6 month contract on a rate of £46,068- £50,340/annum (pro rata). This role will be hybrid based.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the multi-site operation of salaried and seasonally paid teams with differing pay scale and rules applying to a wide range of roles.
- Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead the review and full restructure of the current defined contribution pension provision.
- Manage workflows to ensure all payroll transactions are processed in a timely and accurate manger.
- Demonstrate professionalism and understanding with employees to ensure they recognise the procedures for being paid correctly to avoid non-payment and reduce payroll queries.
- Lead finance administration staff to understand and actively manage timekeeping, payroll and expenses systems.
- Take the lead on payroll projects, including annual salary reviews, National Minimum Wage checks, and benefit scheme evaluations. Oversee system updates, test new features, and help improve process efficiency.
- Stay current with payroll regulations, including statutory and pension requirements, and assist with audit preparations to ensure all documentation is in order. Provide technical support to the payroll team and management as needed.
- Develop and maintain payroll data reports, ensuring secure data management in line with GDPR requirements.
- Work with payroll system parameters to ensure functionality, assist with upgrades, and troubleshoot any technical issues with external providers as necessary.
- Managing all staff inputs to the payroll system from finance assistants / HR personnel.
- Liaising with pension providers, ensuring monthly reconciliation of pension contributions defined contribution and defined benefit pension schemes.
- Lead the improvement, reconciliation and reporting of all payroll and pension information.
- Prepare detailed payroll analysis to produce the annual report and accounts, for both external and internal audit purposes and for monthly EMT and SMT reporting. Responsible for liaising with auditors for all payroll and pension-related queries.
- Responsible for the gathering of payroll information for reporting to Audit Scotland under the National Fraud Initiative.
- Support the Finance Manager with the submission of both monthly and year-end reporting for HMRC purposes – including RTI, P45, P60, P11d.
- Support finance assistants with incoming payroll/pension correspondence and associated transactions such as expenses.
- Provide support in processing financial and key performance data.
- Using business systems, maintain confidential and non-confidential records including inputting information, abstracting, and presenting data in a clear and logical format.
Essential Skills:
- A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject, or demonstrable and significant relevant knowledge and experience
- Advanced M365 skills (Teams, SharePoint, Visio, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc)
- Expert knowledge of the creation of user guides, processes and systems
- Excellent communication - the ability to communicate to a variety of audiences
- Excellent analytical and organisational skills, able to process and present information in a structured format and in a clear unambiguous way
- Ability to work collaboratively both upwards and at peer level with functional and business colleagues
- Proven payroll administration experience including tax regulation and HMRC returns
- Knowledge of stakeholder and government pension schemes
- Staying up-to-date with current trends and innovations
- Agile in approach and response to workflow demand
- Flexible team player, willing to assist with other finance duties to support the overall control of the finance function.
Desirable Skills:
- Previous experience of working in the sector
- Line management experience
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