Payroll and Benefits Manager

Mamas & Papas Limited; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days holiday

Buy & Sell holiday schemes

Company bonus schemes

Employer pension contribution from day

Staff discounts

Benefits Hub access

Subsidised health & life cover

Family related leave policies

Bereavement & carer support

Menopause friendly employer

Job summary

Mamas & Papas Limited is seeking a detail-driven Payroll & Benefits Manager to lead payroll, benefits, pensions and employment tax compliance from our Huddersfield head office.

You will own the end-to-end payroll cycle, manage provider relationships, and ensure on-time, accurate and compliant payroll across multi-site operations. The role combines analytical and stakeholder-management skills with a focus on an excellent colleague experience.

Qualifications

• Strong payroll management experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent UK payroll, PAYE, pensions, PSA, P11D and employment tax knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end payroll, benefits and pensions cycle, ensuring colleagues are paid accurately and on time.
• Lead payroll operations, provider management, controls, reconciliations, reporting and audit readiness.
• Manage PAYE, NI, statutory payments, PSA, P11D, benefits taxation and HMRC submissions.
• Oversee pensions, auto-enrolment, salary exchange, deductions and provider submissions.
• Manage core benefits including medical, life assurance, pension, EV, cycle to work and wellbeing schemes.
• Support confidential colleague queries while improving payroll processes.

Skills

Payroll management

UK payroll

P11D knowledge

Pensions

Excel

HR systems

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Tools

PeopleXD system

Access Group HRIS

Job description

Overview

For over 45 years, Mamas & Papas has supported parents from our Huddersfield roots to stores and concessions across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Today, 1,200+ colleagues bring our much-loved baby brand to life, including 300+ at our Huddersfield head office.

As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a detail-driven Payroll & Benefits Manager to lead payroll, benefits, pensions and employment tax compliance, creating an accurate, reassuring colleague experience.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll own the end-to-end payroll, benefits and pensions cycle, ensuring colleagues are paid accurately, on time and compliantly.

• Lead payroll operations, provider management, controls, reconciliations, reporting and audit readiness.
• Manage PAYE, NI, statutory payments, PSA, P11D, benefits taxation and HMRC submissions.
• Oversee pensions, auto-enrolment, salary exchange, deductions and provider submissions.
• Manage core benefits including medical, life assurance, pension, EV, cycle to work and wellbeing schemes.
• Support confidential colleague queries while improving payroll, benefits and pension processes.

What you’ll bring as Pay & Benefits Manager

• Strong payroll management experience, ideally in a fast-paced, multi-site or retail business.
• Excellent UK payroll, PAYE, pensions, PSA, P11D and employment tax knowledge.
• Advanced Excel, strong analysis skills and confidence using payroll and HR systems.
• Clear communication, stakeholder management and excellent attention to detail.
• Experience of the PeopleXD system (and HRIS system part of Access Group) being more than desirable.

Why join Mamas & Papas?

We’re an award-winning, much-loved brand where quality, care and customer experience sit at the heart of everything we do.

If you combine technical payroll expertise with care, curiosity and a passion for great colleague experience, we’d love to hear from you.

NOTE: This role is based at our Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Head Office (HD5 0RH) 3 days a week, with 2 days from home.

We're a business that cares. Here's just some of our benefits on offer;

• 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
• Buy & Sell holiday schemes
• Company Bonus Schemes
• Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
• Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online
• Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations, from holidays, travel, restaurants, gifts & services to many more worthy discounts through our Benefits Hub
• Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances
• Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave)
• Supportive Foster Care & Carers Leave offering
• Support for Loss and Bereavement
• A Menopause Friendly Employer
• Employee Recognition and Appreciation Schemes
• At Mamas & Papas, we’re a business for the future. Every day, we help to welcome a new generation of children into the world, and we want them to grow up in a world that’s sustainable – one that’s full of opportunity and hope.

…Oh, and a great bunch of people to work with too.

We also operate at Head Office

• Hybrid flexi office working with 2 days working from home
• Flexi-time schemes based around core working hours whether in the office, or working from home
• Plus, free car parking, Prayer & Contemplation room, subsidised canteen, free tea & coffee, Games & TV rooms & much more.

(NB*: All benefits subject to individual schemes criteria & terms)