Have you got experience of managing a team of payroll professionals and are perhaps seeking a role in a larger organisation which can offer genuine career development opportunities?
If so, we’d love to talk to you about an Assistant Payroll Manager position (hybrid working offered)!
This role isn't just about crunching numbers. As the Assistant Payroll Manager, you'll be the backbone of the wider HR team, ensuring that all employees are paid accurately and on time. This means meticulous attention to detail, a knack for problem solving, and staying updated with the latest payroll regulations in the UK. You’ll also play a key role in developing the team, on both an individual and team wide basis.
Day-to-day responsibilities/ accountabilities include:
- Managing escalated pay queries from all depots/hubs and colleagues.
- Providing training to new team members on payroll processes and company policy.
- Work with the Payroll Manager to develop and train team members on legislation and changes.
- Ability to process end to end payroll with strong knowledge in all aspects of payroll processing.
- Providing information and answering questions about payroll related matters to line managers and colleagues.
- Able to manually calculate payable hours, commissions, bonuses, tax deductions, and deductions accurately.
- Issuing payslips and managing advance payments.
- Providing administrative assistance on reporting and reconciliation for Finance.
- Processing payroll accurately within Cascade and liaising with relevant stakeholders to ensure the data is correct.
- Ensuring the HRPayroll inbox is maintained, and queries answered within the SLA’s.
- Managing and importing data accurately in a timely manner.
- Pension administration tasks including Auto Enrolment.
- Maintaining and submitting pay period GL to finance.
- Payroll checking each period before signing off payroll.
- Manage the process of recovering overpayments and assist team with related queries.
- Focus on continuous improvement of payroll processes to drive payroll accuracy.
- Assist in the calculation and processing of any redundancy payments.
- Act as point of contact with HMRC and answer related queries.
- Advise on Universal Credit Queries and HMRC information requests.
- The management of all processes in the absence of the Payroll Manager.
The ideal candidate will have:
✔️ Proven experience in payroll management, ideally gained in a busy payroll environment
✔️ Strong understanding of UK payroll laws and regulations
✔️ Excellent numerical, organisational and time management skills
✔️ Ability to handle confidential information discreetly
This is a great opportunity to help manage a dynamic team, drive process improvements, and work with innovative HR technology. If you think you have what it takes, we’d love to hear from you (please get in touch with Helen).