Job Title: Global Payroll Specialist

Location: West London

Salary: £70,000 p/a + Benefits

A well known global client are seeking to hire a dynamic Global Payroll Specialist to join their payroll function. Hybrid job role based in the office 3 days per week.

Working as part of a small team you will be responsible for:

• Supporting with processing of the UK / EMEA & APAC payrolls.
• Payroll data submissions, auto enrolment, payroll reconciliations.
• Dealing with payroll queries and assisting with the P11D process.

Skills Needed

Applicants MUST have experience of either EMEA or APAC payrolls (preferably both) with strong UK payroll legislative experience.

Interested? Apply today!

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Reference: GS8

All Locations: Dual – London office & home

Salary Details: £43,000 – £45,500 p/a + benefits

Hours Per Week: 35

Vacancy type: Fixed Term Contract

The opportunity

Are you a detail-oriented leader with a passion for numbers and a drive to lead a dynamic payroll team? The British Heart Foundation is looking for an experienced Payroll Team Leader to join us for a 9–12-month fixed term contract to oversee our payroll operations and ensure our staff are compensated accurately and on time.

This is a crucial role to lead the team in ensuring accurate and timely payroll services for over 4000+ employees across our retail and head office directorates. You’ll maintain employee data, process payroll queries, and handle essential payroll functions. With a meticulous approach and commitment to excellence, you will help the payroll team meet its targets.

As Payroll Team Leader you will:

• Lead and mentor a team of payroll professionals
• Ensure timely and accurate payroll processing for over 4,000 employees
• Maintain and enhance our Workday Payroll systems
• Collaborate with HR on process improvement to align payroll processes with organisational goals
• Ensure an excellent customer experience for all users
• Offer expert support and guidance on all payroll related queries, drawing on your expertise and knowledge of Payroll

Working arrangements

This is a blended role, where your work will be dual located between your home and our London office. You will also be required to travel to our office in Claygate, Surrey regularly.

Please note this is a fixed term contract for 9 – 12 months.

At BHF we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

About you

We’re looking for a CIPP qualified individual with experience leading a payroll team. You’ll have up-to-date knowledge of payroll and employment legislation, as well as a working knowledge of real-time information (RTI) and auto-enrolment.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Proven experience in payroll management
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to develop team members
• Excellent attention to detail and consistency in policy application
• Knowledge of payroll software, preferably Workday
• A wealth of payroll knowledge that you are happy to share, including knowledge of HMRC and benefits processes
• Outstanding communication and customer service skills
• Clear and logical thinking, complemented by excellent organisational skills to ensure the team’s KPIs and SLAs are met
• Commitment to the values of the British Heart Foundation: brave, informed, compassionate, and driven

For further details and to apply please click the apply button.

The closing date for applications is 25^th June 2024.

We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

About IPSA

IPSA is an independent body that regulates and administers the business costs and decides the pay and pensions of the 650 elected Members of Parliament and their staff in the UK. In fact, we were the first independent regulator of its kind in any of the world’s democracies.

Our mission is simple: we want to enable MPs to do what really matters by providing an exemplary, seamless regulatory service. We’re guided by our values and our brilliant, inclusive culture ensures we’re not only a great place to work but that we can also constantly adapt, evolve and improve everything we do so that we can meet our customers’ needs.

The role and its responsibilities

We are looking for a new Payroll Officer to help us deliver our seamless regulatory service. We’re a payroll team of thirteen and we sit within the finance function, but your role will be visible across IPSA and will have direct, regular contact with our customers where building successful partnerships is key. If you like to be challenged and enjoy working in a dynamic environment, then this could be the job for you. The role will help to make a difference to our customers everyday by providing timely and accurate payroll information and resolving issues efficiently and effectively. There’s a lot of scope for you to enable change and improvement across the team and our day-to-day operations.

Payroll Officer’s responsibilities include:

• Ensuring MPs’ staff are paid accurately and on
• Maintaining payroll records in accordance with The Scheme of MPs’ Staffing and Business Costs and HR policies and procedures.
• Building open and honest relationships with all teams and acting as the face of Payroll across IPSA.
• Providing exemplary, seamless service to our customers, internally and
• Enabling your colleagues to achieve results through brilliant
• Collaborating with other teams to resolve payroll queries, ensuring teams are provided with appropriate and timely advice and information.
• Ensuring financial controls are maintained by IPSA and
• Actively contributing to continuous improvement of the payroll function and helping to improve IPSA.

Who we’re looking for

You’ll have experience of working in a payroll team and understand how HMRC legislation applies to payroll, pensions and other statutory payments, as well as basic finance and budget management skills. We’d like you to be a qualified payroll technician through the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) but if you’re not, we’ll support you through a development pathway. You’ll be adept at understanding and communicating complex and challenging financial information to people of all levels, both within IPSA and to our customers. You’ll be curious about the payroll data to ensure it’s right first time, every time. You’ll have an eye for accuracy and attention to detail and you’ll own your work. You’ll enjoy working with others and be accountable for achieving great results.

You’ll be joining a diverse and knowledgeable bunch of people, passionate about making IPSA brilliant and so you’ll need to fit right in.

Above all, you’ll live and breathe IPSA’s values and be able to demonstrable how your experience and ways of working align with these.

From day one of joining IPSA, you will start to benefit from our generous salary package, which increases as you develop in your role. How quickly you progress depends entirely on you and how you perform. You will also immediately receive other benefits, outlined below.

A full job description and person specification is available on the ‘current vacancies’ section on our website.

Location

We’re a hybrid organisation with employees working in all corners of the UK. We have an office in central London which you can work from, although we welcome applications from all across the UK, offering flexible homeworking on UK mainland locations (which includes Northern Ireland).

What IPSA can offer you

• A competitive salary which increases as you develop in your role and is regularly benchmarked against industry.
• Hybrid and flexible working, with occasional travel to our London office for team meetings
• Generous contributions into a ‘Civil Service’
• 25 days holiday entitlement (+ bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year up to 30
• Option to purchase additional holiday days each
• Access to learning and development tailored to your role with coaching
• Working in a high-performing organisation which supports democracy with a great team
• A culture encouraging equity, diversity and
• Time in your work to time to participate in our inclusive workplace
• Mental Health First Aid network and access to our EAP
• Enhanced family leave provisions
• Workplace awards programme for living IPSA’s values and innovative
• Season ticket/rent deposit
• Cycle to work
• Volunteering days and ‘you’

Our commitment and values

We’re committed to making IPSA a brilliant place to work and at the heart of our people philosophy is our promise to engage, enable and empower every member of our team to deliver excellence, learn and develop each day. Through a diversity of backgrounds, experience and thought IPSA will continue to be a high-performing organisation with a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We’re guided by our values and live and breathe them through all the work that we do. These are Staying Connected, Seeing the Bigger Picture, Being Open, Doing the Right Thing and Making a Difference. As a values-based organisation you can expect these to feature throughout the recruitment process and beyond.

How to apply

If you feel like you’re a good fit for this role and for IPSA then we’d love to hear from you. Please send us your CV and a one-page cover letter to [email protected]. We ask you to be succinct in your cover letter highlighting why you’d be a great match. It’s always a good idea to cross reference your letter with the key elements of the role and focus on some of your key achievements which might be relevant to

this role and how you align to our values.

Before you apply, please take a moment to read the ‘how to apply’ section on our website which details our approach to reducing unconscious bias in our recruitment process.

Interview process and timeline

Interviews will be virtual via Microsoft Teams, so you’ll need access to a secure WIFI network and a private space. Our interviews are competency-based, and we’ll ask you a series of questions designed to help assess your suitability for the role and for IPSA, and we may also ask you prepare a short presentation.

The closing date for this role will be 22 December 2023, so we encourage you to submit your application without delay. Shortlisting will take place in the w/c 2 January 2024 and interviews will take place on w/c 8 January 2024.

Due to the high number of applications, we expect to receive for this role we will only contact you if your application is shortlisted for interview. Feedback will only be provided after interview.

Privacy notice and right to work

By applying you confirm you have the right to work in the UK and have read our Human Resources privacy notice.

As an inclusive organisation, we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people of Black, Asian and other Minority Ethnic groups (BAME), as they are currently under-represented within the team.

The Vacancy

Process payrolls for lay staff, ministers and pensioners ensuring that tax codes, entitlements, deductions and other adjustments are in line with instructions from HMRC, HR & Development, circuit treasurers and other clients.

Ensure that all statutory and voluntary deductions are made correctly and remit monthly payments to the relevant recipient.

Prepare and post payroll summaries to the nominal ledger and reconcile control accounts / loan accounts on a monthly basis.

Update and remit RTI submissions (including FPS and EPS) to HMRC and upload tax code changes.

Reconcile and remit monthly payments to HMRC for income tax, national insurance contributions and any other statutory recoveries.

Produce monthly debit statements, deal with queries from staff, ministers and treasurers, and provide payroll information to HR & Development, HMRC and other government agencies.

About You

• Good attention to detail and communication skills.  Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues, and others, including volunteers, throughout the Methodist Church.
• First class organisational and administrative skills and systematic approach to work.
•  Ability to deliver to set deadlines.
• Able to remain calm under pressure and be tactful in difficult or sensitive situations.
•  Honesty, integrity, resilience and professionalism

Our Culture, Values and Benefits

We value and support all those who join our team through a positive work-life balance augmented by generous annual leave (plus an extra 3 days over Christmas/New Year), TOIL, flexi-leave and an on-site Wellbeing Adviser service. We offer a generous occupational pension scheme with pensions matched up to 8%.

Click Apply to be redirected to our website to submit your application. If you require reasonable adjustments to made at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know

Closing Date: 8th May 2023

Interview Date: 19th May 2023