Head of Payroll

JGA Recruitment Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business is seeking a Head of Payroll to enhance team collaboration and oversee payroll processes. This role requires strong UK payroll knowledge, leadership skills, and a history of driving business change. The ideal candidate will ensure efficient service delivery and compliance with payroll legislation.

Qualifications

• Strong UK Payroll knowledge and expert legislation understanding.
• Experience managing multisite/offshore teams.

Responsibilities

• Encourage teams to align with operations and customer success.
• Monitor SLA delivery for claims and settlements.
• Oversee P11D and year-end tasks.

Skills

UK Payroll knowledge

UK payroll legislation

Leadership skills

Business change

Job description

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Contract type: Permanent

JGA are partnering with a leading business who are looking to add a Head of Payroll to the team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Encourage the teams to work closely with operations, service, and customer success to keep everything aligned and running smoothly
• Take charge of monitoring SLA delivery from start to finish, ensuring all claims and settlements are processed promptly and accurately
• Overseeing P11D and year-end tasks, while also playing a supportive, coordinating role across the wider team

Required Skills:

• Strong UK Payroll knowledge
• Expert knowledge of UK payroll legislation
• Experience managing multisite/offshore teams
• A strong history of driving successful business change and streamlining processes to boost efficiency and impact.
• Proven leadership skills with a history of driving top-tier performance and a sharp focus on delivering fast, customer-first service

If you feel that you have the skills and experience to perform to a high standard in this role, please apply online or call Freddy at JGA for further information.

JGA are dedicated to delivering the best possible candidate experience. Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we are not always able to respond to every individual applicant. If your application is shortlisted, a member of our team will be in touch. Thank you for your understanding.

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 and HR 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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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