Are you an experienced payroll professional with exceptional leadership capability?
Do you have over 10 years experience working within a busy payroll function, ideally in a multinational business?
Would you like to work for a leading business with a fantastic remuneration package?
For more information please contact Alex on alex.noble@stafflinerecruit.com
Responsibilities
* Lead and oversee payroll operations across the UK and Ireland, ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of all payrolls.
* Deliver a high-quality, customer-focused, and cost-efficient service to the wider business, aligned with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
* Ensure full compliance with all relevant legislation, regulatory, and reporting requirements.
* Maintain a deep understanding of payroll procedures and integrated business processes, acting as a subject matter expert across the organisation.
* Develop and maintain robust process controls, ensuring effective governance and minimising risks of delay or error.
* Implement and monitor control reporting frameworks to ensure compliance and accuracy across all payroll processes.
* Foster a culture of continuous improvement, simplifying, standardising, and optimising processes across all business units to enhance quality and productivity.
* Drive problem resolution and data integrity, maintaining high standards of housekeeping, accurate data archiving, and employee master data accuracy.
* Ensure successful delivery of improvement and transition initiatives, tracking progress and ensuring all deliverables are met and signed off.
* Build and sustain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including HR, Finance, and external vendors, to ensure accurate and timely payments.
* Lead and develop the Payroll team, setting clear objectives, providing coaching and guidance, and supporting professional development.
* Prioritise and allocate workloads to maintain consistent service quality and operational continuity during absences and peak periods.
* Partner with HR and Finance leaders to support payroll integrations and system transitions.
* Support internal and external audits, ensuring documentation accuracy and transparency.
* Manage payroll budgets, maintaining cost control and providing regular progress and variance reporting to agreed timelines.
Qualifications
* Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, or a related discipline.
* Ideally CIPP qualified
* Ideally project management qualification
Role details
* Seniority level: Director
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Finance
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