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Payroll Manager

  • Location: Flexible
  • Grade & Salary: Starting at £52,109 rising to £56,884 after three incremental rises (2022/23 pay award yet to be agreed)
  • Post number: 203331
  • Type of contract: Permanent
  • Work pattern: 37 hours a week, Monday to Friday

Closing date: Wednesday, 28th September 2022 at 12pm.

Benefits: Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes.

Role Purpose

If you want an exciting role in Payroll this is your job. If you want an interesting organisation that is tackling climate change this is the organisation for you.

This role, as you will see, is varied. It is key to ensuring we pay our staff accurately and on time. It is pivotal to ensuring the team works effectively and efficiently in order to ensure the team continue to deliver a professional payroll service serving the needs of our staff. You will need to build and maintain good working relationships with HR, Finance, Audit, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), Civil Service Pension Scheme (CSPS) administrators, the Environment Agency Pension Fund (EAPF)  and others. However, beyond all of this you will need to have the ability to find solutions to issues, look for efficiencies and work in a varied and demanding environment.

Qualifications and Skills

  1. Considerable experience working within a People and Pay environment, at a senior/managerial level.
  2. Detailed understanding of developments in People and Pay management best practice.
  3. A Professional Payroll qualification or significant experience.
  4. Demonstrable experience of using and working with a variety of payroll, HR & Finance systems and other software/applications.
  5. In depth understanding of People & Pay Policies, and relevant tax requirements.
  6. Understand, interpret and provide advice and solutions on technical and complex People and Pay related matters and communicate the results to non-finance staff in an understandable and engaging way.
  7. Experience of implementing change or process improvement

To apply, please visit our website.

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Welsh Government Payroll Supervisor

Fixed term for 2 years with possibility of permanency

Location – flexible

Salary Range – £25,860 – £29,430

Work Pattern – Full time (applications are welcome from people who work part time, as part of a job share or who work full time)

 

Purpose of role

The Welsh Government recruits and develop people who are motivated to learn, enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge and make a meaningful impact when applying organisational values to their everyday tasks. You will have intellectual curiosity, analytical skills and attention to detail that allow us to look beyond the numbers.

 

The purpose of this role is to support and supervise on all processes within the Pay and Pensions Branch, ensuring that payment of salaries are processed accurately and on time. A key role within the Pay and Pensions team is to ensure accurate, prompt and efficient payment of remuneration to all staff attached to its five payrolls whilst providing excellent customer service to internal and external customers.

 

The Payroll Supervisor works with the Payroll Manager to plan the work of the Pay & Pensions Team, monitor its performance, celebrate successes and act on any problems. You will contribute to the overall success of the Corporate Shared Service Centre by working effectively with other teams and service areas. By joining the Pay and Pensions team, you will be given the opportunity to gain an introduction to the HR profession as a whole and, provide you with a chance to gain professional qualifications for example CIPP (Chartered Institute of Payroll and Pensions) and CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).

 

Good governance is essential – you will ensure that the team operates high standards of control, propriety, regularity and separation of duties, and maintains audit trails and records of its work which is subject to regular audit.

 

Key Tasks

  • Work with the Payroll Manager to ensure that payroll is successfully completed each month.
  • Deal professionally and confidentially with a range of pay queries from individuals and key internal and external stakeholders including payroll providers and HMRC.
  • Undertake detailed calculations in support of payroll work.
  • Work with the Senior Payroll Manager to administer and manage the team’s work to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of services, including reviewing and checking the Pay team’s work and continuously improve processes.
  • Undertake additional work associated with payroll such as overtime claims.
  • Manage a range of employee benefits (including advances/loans, salary sacrifice, pension’s administration and childcare vouchers) and ensure that the different schemes are effectively managed.
  • Manage colleagues in the Pay team.

 

By joining the Pay and Pensions team, you will be given the opportunity to gain an introduction to the HR profession as a whole and, provide you with a chance to gain professional qualifications for example CIPP (Chartered Institute of Payroll and Pensions) and CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development).