Competitive Salary + Onsite Parking available

Our client is a well-established and highly respected organisation with a long-standing reputation for excellence. Due to continued growth, they are looking to recruit an experienced Payroll Manager to lead their payroll function and manage a small, dedicated team.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced payroll professional who enjoys a hands-on role while leading and developing others. You'll be responsible for ensuring the accurate and timely delivery of high-volume fortnightly and monthly payrolls, maintaining compliance with payroll legislation, and driving continuous improvement across the department.

Duties and responsibilities

Reporting to senior management, your key responsibilities will include:

• Managing the end-to-end processing of high-volume fortnightly and monthly payrolls.
• Leading, supervising and supporting a small payroll team, ensuring workloads are effectively delegated and deadlines are consistently achieved.
• Ensuring payroll is processed accurately, on time and in line with current HMRC legislation.
• Reviewing payroll calculations, statutory payments, deductions and final payroll submissions.
• Managing pension auto-enrolment, payroll reconciliations and year-end payroll activities.
• Resolving complex payroll queries and providing expert payroll advice to employees and managers.
• Producing payroll reports and supporting the wider Finance and HR teams.
• Reviewing and improving payroll processes to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Maintaining payroll records securely and ensuring strict confidentiality at all times.

Experience and qualifications

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Significant experience managing end-to-end payroll within a high-volume environment.
• Experience processing both fortnightly and monthly payrolls.
• Essential: Previous team management or supervisory experience, with the ability to lead, motivate and develop a small payroll team.
• A thorough understanding of UK payroll legislation, HMRC regulations, pensions and statutory payments.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail and a high level of accuracy.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience using payroll software and Microsoft Excel.

Benefits

What's on Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Excellent benefits package.
• The opportunity to join a stable, well-established organisation.
• A supportive and collaborative working environment.
• A varied and rewarding management role with genuine responsibility and autonomy.
• If you're an experienced Payroll Manager with proven leadership experience and a passion for delivering an accurate, efficient payroll service, we'd love to hear from you.