Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.
JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.
We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.
Payroll Team Leader
Responsible to: Payroll Assistant Manager
Department: People Services
Location: JD Sports Fashion PLC, Hollins Brook Way, Bury, BL9 8RR
Hours: 40 Hours Per Week, 5 days
The Role:
The Payroll team supports our colleagues across the business by ensuring their pay is processed seamlessly. Our aim is to deliver a first class serivce so our colleagues can keep doing what they do best
The Payroll Team Leader will work alongside the other Team Leaders, Assistant Managers, and Payroll Managers in making this happen and supporting in creating team KPI's. You will help support a team of 16 payroll associates, and executives as they process payroll for our 30,000 colleagues across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
We are creating a team with the reputation for being exceptional, with our colleagues at the heart of everything we do. Your role will encompass overseeing the team and assisting them with their ongoing training and development, making sure payroll gets done the right way and right first time, ensuring our colleagues are receiving the right outcome to their queries, and implementing process improvements and steamlining to make what we do even better.
Key Duties/Responsibilities:
Ensure the completion of payrolls for 30,000 colleagues over 22monthly payrolls, including 5 Offshore payrolls and 3ROI payrolls
Ensure the team are meeting key deadlines and SLA'sto a high quality
Promoting best practice and ensuring the team are keeping our colleagues at the centre of what they do
Training the team on payroll processing and legislative changes, monitoringtheir performanceand helping them develop in their careers.
Proactively keeping an eye on trends in queries and liaising with key stakeholders across the business to resolve issues at source
Being the go-to person for guidance and support both within the team and across the business.
Desirable skills
Experience of working with Dayforce payroll software
CIPP or similar accredited
Experience of mentoring a team
Expertexcel skills.
Experience of analysing processes and looking for continuous improvement
Essential skills
Previousexperience of working with high volume payrolls
A solidunderstanding of payroll, benefitsand general legislation, ideally to include some offshore or ROI legislationknowledge.
Strong time management and coordination skills to help manage the team to meet key deadlines
People focused, with a desire to see your team succeed
A desire to learn and continuously improve
A keen eye for detail and accuracy
Being able to keep our colleagues at the centre of all you do
Able to organise your time to meet key deadlines both by yourself and support team member to meet theirs
Excellent communication skills to be able to break down pay queries and make themunderstandable for our colleagues and your team members
What can we offer you?
JD is a large, fast moving, exciting workplace. As part of the team, we will offer you full training with our in-house expertise on processing a variety of payrolls to deliver a first-class service. We take pride in what we do and who we do it with.
JD champions talent and there are opportunities to hone and develop your skills and progress within your role and within the business. We offer apprenticeship study support and opportunities to undertake funded training that leaves you with recognised payroll qualifications. We also offer in house training to support your development of skills in areas like leadership and public speaking.
As a business, JD puts people at the centre. Through the JD foundation colleagues can take part in charity volunteering opportunities. The business supports your wellbeing through our departmental wellbeing champions, and health and wellbeing events and initiatives. Our employee forum also gives you a voice to tell us what's important to you and how we can support you.
Alongside that, we offer competitive benefits, including staff discount at JD and all their fascia's, discounted JD gym membership, 28 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) increasing with each year of service, pension scheme, unlimited fruit, tea and coffee and an onsite subsidised canteen.
JD values diversity and inclusion and champions a culture where everyone feels, valued, included and celebrated.
We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
Thank you for your time
JD