Title: Payroll Manager

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £43,000 p/a

Office based

Work with a leading public sector organisation leading the payroll team

Main responsibilities include:

• Leading a successful team by managing the complex payroll of over 16000 employees across multiple sites.
• Accurately process statutory payments.
• Fostering positive working relationships with stakeholders.
• iTrent processing
• Authorising BACS, summary reports and analyses.
• Analysing data and providing insights.
• Submitting accurate/timely tax filings.
• Overseeing accurate P60’s and P11d’s.
• Partnering with IT on system upgrades.

The ideal candidate has payroll and people management experience, preferably in high-volume, shared services environments.

Additional requirements:

• Inhouse high volume payroll experience essential.
• Advanced Excel proficiency. Essential.
• Management experience
• Complex manual calculations. Essential
• CIPP Foundation Degree minimum

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd (“We”) are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply.

We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist payroll, HR & Reward recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.

Who are we looking for? Experienced, highly motivated professionals with strong analytic and organisational skills. The candidate will be client facing and must have strong written and verbal communication skills. They will need to be driven and be passionate about providing a high level of service. The role will involve dealing with a variety of clients and their queries around global implementation and processing of payroll. Working with the team to manage global implementation project plans, mailboxes, dealing with a range of queries from our clients and adhering to deadlines, so ability to work under pressure is a must. Liaising with our global network and technology team to ensure global payrolls are implemented accurately and our technology is enhanced appropriately. Leading client meetings on a regular basis to run through their global payroll implementation project plans and gathering of business requirements, enhancement requests to our technology and dealing with any queries they may have. The ideal candidate will have a proactive, curious and innovative mindset who can help to grow and develop this fast expanding part of the business.
About the role

Successful applicants will be responsible for their own client portfolio and managing the day to day activities of their client’s global payroll implementations. Reporting into the global payroll implementation manager duties will include:

• Ensure day to day and ad hoc queries are responded to in a timely and appropriate manner
• Delivering solutions to issues raised by our network and clients, taking full ownership and liaising with your peers including the Technology team to ensure resolution of the issue.
• Preparation and initial review of deliverables, where required.
• Work with the PwC global network to ensure timely delivery of all information required to support set up and operation of multi-territory services, flagging any issues to the implementation lead.
• Lead relationship and calls with clients to review collation of business requirements, project plans, update on delivery of service, progress of any out of scope services and agree processes to onboard new locations and changes to existing payrolls.
• Lead smaller client implementations with minimal Manager involvement
• Participate in new payroll opportunities and RFPs.
• Become proficient in the use of the Global Payroll Platform (GPP) including new entity set up
• Lead training and provide demos to clients/the network on use of GPP
• Manage and train junior team members
• Liaison with our GPP Team based in Mauritius including; weekly calls to feedback on issues encountered, working together to develop solutions for our clients and future enhancements to GPP
• Support risk and financial management as required by the implementation team

Other Duties/expectations

Be a key member of the team to ensuring all deadlines are met against the project plans and timelines.

• A proactive approach, open to change and developing new ways of working
• Work as part of a team
• Build and maintain relationships with clients and our global network
• Timely, efficient communication should be a priority
• Involvement in BD projects and proposals
• Ensure best practice is at the forefront and excellent client satisfaction is achieved
• Providing support to peers and management

Essential skills and experience

• Strong project management skills
• Experience of working in a client facing environment
• Preference for prior payroll implementation experience
• Strong Google Suite skills
• You will be expected to lead client calls and be the face of the PwC global payroll team
• Leading and managing multiple client portfolios

Aptitudes/attributes

• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Able to manage time and work under pressure to tight deadlines
• Able to manage the demands of numerous tasks
• Able to work on own initiative and within a team environment
• Self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Diplomatic when faced with issues
• Attention to detail

What is in it for you?

This is a fast paced, challenging environment which can provide you with a rewarding and stimulating career. You will work with well known, global clients and receive both technical and softer skills training to assist with your continual personal and professional development

Are you experienced in Payroll? At Doncasters we have an exciting opportunity for a Payroll Manager to join our HR team. This role is a hybrid opportunity with the option to work from home and across our UK sites.

The Role

As a Payroll Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring the efficient and accurate processing of payroll for all UK employees.

This role requires you, as the Payroll Manager, to ensure payrolls are processed in line with monthly deadlines and that legal and audit compliance guidelines are adhered to site by site.

On a day-to-day basis you will:

– Develop our payroll processes looking to implement process improvements

-Lead payroll administrators ensuring legal compliance is adhered to on each site

– Take accountability for HMRC fillings

– Identify and develop ways to continuously improve our payroll

– Liaise with the global payroll teams to understand synergies in policy and process, standardising where possible.

Interested?

To thrive in this role, you will have experience processing payroll for a multi-site/ location company. You will have experience leading and mentoring other payroll staff ensuring compliance throughout. You will be a try subject matter expert in payroll leading and developing the payroll offering within Doncasters.

Doncasters Values:

We foster a winning mindset that enables everyone to be both safe and able to fulfil their potential. We strive for excellence, commitment, integrity and teamwork in the pursuit of our goals.

To Apply

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Equal opportunities

Doncasters is committed to achieving workforce diversity and we pride ourselves on creating an inclusive working environment. We welcome all applications irrespective of social and cultural background, national origin, race, age, gender, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status or religious belief. We provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process; if you require any support or assistance to enable a successful application, please contact [email protected]

This is an exciting opportunity for a career in Payroll — We are offering an apprenticeship for candidates who wish to train to become a Payroll Officer with a level 3 qualification at the end of training. Our successful candidates will be employed on a Band 4 salary.

We are a large payroll dept, providing payroll services to over 20 Trusts in the UK. We have circa 90 staff and offer training to candidates who do not have NHS payroll experience.

As an ever expanding dept, there are progression opportunities available on a regular basis. We expect our staff to be hard working, able to meet strict deadlines and work as part of a growing team. You will have responsibility for your own section of work, and after initial training will be expected to manage your own workload.

Payroll is a vital component of the NHS and we embrace the challenges that the complexities of NHS terms and conditions give to us, to ensure our staff are paid accurately and on time.

Main duties of the job

You will have responsibility for your own section of work, and after initial training will be expected to manage your own workload. You will be responsible for processing new starters, leavers, changes to contract, sickness payments, maternity payments etc. You will be able to calculate tax and national insurance deductions manually and have a good payroll knowledge of both legislation and NHS terms and conditions of service after the period of training.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ‘whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.