Payroll & Benefits Manager

Portmeirion Group; Stoke-on-Trent; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK manufacturing company is seeking a Payroll and Benefits Manager to oversee payroll and benefits administration across its teams. The role involves managing pensions and benefit schemes, running statutory reports, and supporting the HR team. Ideal candidates will have proven payroll experience, strong knowledge of UK legislation, and excellent Excel skills. The position offers the opportunity to champion improvements in payroll processes within a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience running end-to-end payroll independently.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation and statutory requirements.
• Excellent Excel skills including formulas, pivot tables, and VLOOKUPs.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll, pensions, and benefit schemes.
• Run statutory reports including Gender Pay Gap.
• Champion continuous improvement in payroll processes.

Skills

End to end payroll management

System implementation

Knowledge of UK payroll legislation

Attention to detail

Excel skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to work in fast-paced environments

Job description

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Are you looking for a new challenge? Then take a look at our exciting vacancy in our HR team! We are seeking an experienced and detail-oriented Payroll and Benefits Manager to take ownership of payroll and benefits administration across our UK teams; you'll be working closely with our HR team so if you have a passion for payroll and people - this may be the job for you!

Here is a brief look at what the role entails:

Key responsibilities

• Overall responsibility for the company's payroll, pensions & benefit schemes
• Run all statutory reports including Gender Pay Gap, WTR, ONS, average weekly hours reporting
• Payment of all statutory and regulatory payments
• Management of the company pension schemes
• Rebroke, administer and manage all benefit schemes including Westfield Health, Group Life, PMI, and Company Car fleet management and Childcare related vouchers etc. or other appropriate benefits
• Management of the data required for our PSA and P11d submissions including Class 1a and b payment facilitation
• Accurate and timely reporting of all related metrics including absence management, gender, ethnic splits, flexi hols balance reporting
• Forward thinking feed-in to budget processes from an NLW/AE cost perspective
• Champion continuous improvement and innovation in payroll processes
• Support and develop team members, promoting professional growth and CPD

• Overall responsibility for the sourcing and delivery of a new Payroll/HR system
• Work with the HR team and provide operational support

To hit the ground running, you will need to have the below skills:

• Proven experience running end to end payroll independently
• Previous experience of system implementation/project management
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation and statutory requirements
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Excellent excels skills - confident in using formulas, pivot tables and v look ups
• Strong communications skills - ability to explain payroll details clearly to staff at all levels
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment
• If you also have HR experience, then this would be hugely beneficial