Payroll Lead - 12 Months Full Time Contract

www.topfinancialjobs.co.uk - Jobboard; Daventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services job board is seeking a Payroll Manager to oversee UK and Crown Dependency payrolls. This role involves managing payroll functions, ensuring compliance, leading change projects, and supporting a team. The ideal candidate will have extensive payroll experience and strong leadership skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience of payroll administration and support.
• Experience managing large-sized complex payrolls and teams.
• Proven success at driving process changes.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll functions, calculating employee pay and taxes.
• Ensure compliance with statutory filings and manage government notices.
• Provide support and guidance on payroll matters.

Skills

Payroll Administration

Decision-Making

Leadership

Change Management

Negotiation

Job description

In this Payroll Manager role, you will manage UK and Crown Dependency payrolls, leading the transition of Crown Dependency payroll to the EME team. Responsibilities include managing post-payroll activities, ensuring accurate and timely payments and submissions to HMRC and vendors, and collaborating with the Control team to complete monthly processes efficiently. The role also involves reviewing working instructions, the governance calendar, and ensuring timely HMRC returns.

Additionally, the role contributes to change projects and the Global HR Transformation Program, focusing on system design, implementation, and process reengineering. Key tasks include overseeing monthly post-payroll activities, providing support and guidance, implementing operational governance, ensuring team readiness for change, driving development, and maintaining compliance with legislative and policy requirements. Collaboration with Continuous Improvement and Change Teams and contributing to projects are also essential.

To be successful as a Payroll Manager, you must have experience with:

• Extensive experience of payroll administration and support, with experience at expertise level.
• Worked on large-sized complex payrolls and managed a team.
• Decision-making that takes accountability of policy, legislation, operational performance, and the wider team deliverables.
• Influence and negotiate at senior management level.
• Maturity and experience in handling complex and challenging situations.
• Evaluating and implementing/or rejecting proposed operational change.
• Proven success at driving process and procedural change initiatives—from conception to implementation.

You may be assessed on key critical skills such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

Purpose of the role

To manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, and maintaining accurate payroll records.

Accountabilities

• Processing payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees, calculating taxes and contributions, and processing payments.
• Employee payroll record administration and troubleshooting.
• Providing guidance and support to employees on payroll matters, including salary calculations, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory filings and managing responses to government notices related to statutory obligations.
• Handling payroll statutory reporting and liaising with relevant tax authorities.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advising and influencing decision-making, contributing to policy development, and collaborating with other functions.
• Leading a team performing complex tasks, setting objectives, coaching, and appraising performance.
• Demonstrating leadership behaviours: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, leading collaborative assignments, guiding team members, and identifying new directions for projects.
• Consulting on complex issues and supporting escalation resolution.
• Mitigating risks and developing policies to support control and governance.
• Managing risks and strengthening controls related to work.
• Collaborating across areas to support business strategy and activity.
• Analyzing data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicating complex or sensitive information clearly.
• Influencing stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues are expected to embody the Barclays Values—Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship—and demonstrate the Barclays Mindset—Empower, Challenge, Drive.