Payroll Manager

Moorepay; Clifton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A payroll services company is looking for a Payroll Manager to join their team in Clifton, England. The role involves managing client payrolls and ensuring efficiency, while providing support and addressing queries. Candidates should be CIPP qualified or have equivalent experience, along with strong interpersonal skills. The company offers a vibrant culture focused on mental health support and work/life balance, alongside a competitive benefits package including private medical insurance and generous annual leave.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus birthday off

Private medical insurance

Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions

Qualifications

• Experience managing large transition projects is desirable.
• Experience with Moorepay HR expertise or alternate platforms is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Managing a strategic group of clients and ensuring timely payroll fulfillment.
• Building relationships with clients and answering their queries.
• Taking ownership of service improvement initiatives.

Skills

CIPP qualified or equivalent

Proven ability in building positive customer relationships

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Experience of operating within an outsourced payroll service provider

Great coaching and mentoring skills

Education

Relevant experience working at that level

Job description

About the role

Working within the Payroll Manager Service team, you'll be responsible for supporting our clients with their day-to-day payroll tasks, providing them with the payroll expertise that they may not have in-house, and ensuring that their payrolls run efficiently and accurately. You'll assist both the clients and the employee users with payroll and systems queries, and should also be seen as a subject matter expert for this across the wider business. You'll be focused on service delivery and providing a great client experience.

This is a full time, permanent role working 3 days in our Swinton office.

Key responsibilities include :

• Managing a strategic group of clients, ensuring their payrolls are fulfilled timely, accurately and securely.
• Building close working relationships with both the clients and the team.
• Answering client queries about their Payroll or Moorepay systems via email and telephone, within service level agreements, striving for client advocacy and first contact resolution.
• Owning and taking responsibility for the client journey, always ensuring service excellence.
• Helping clients understand how best to use their Moorepay Software to supporttheir business needs.
• Reviewing client processes to identify inefficiencies and suggest improvements.
• Working with the Implementation team to proactively manage customer onboarding, through first run into the live environment.
• Reviewing and acting upon all customer feedback; acting as a primary point of escalation for the client and making / executing recommendations for improvement.
• Taking ownership of service improvement initiatives driven out of the Moorepay customer satisfaction surveys.
• Liaising with internal stakeholders, within Operations, Sales, Client Success, Marketing and Technology, to help manage client payrolls.
• Completing all set tasks accurately and efficiently, adhering to deadlines, instructions, policies and procedures and training as appropriate.
• Conducting account client reviews.
• Investigating all errors or issues to ensure that the client is provided with a full RCA and solid preventatives are put in place.
• Raising system bugs and improvement ideas with technical support.
• Working closely with payroll processors (based in Kochi, India).
• Keeping up-to-date with payroll trends, product enhancements, industry developments and HR legislation.

Skills & experience

• CIPP qualified (or equivalent), or relevant experience working at that level.
• Proven ability in building positive customer relationships.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Moorepay HR expertise or alternate platforms (desirable).
• Experience of operating within an outsourced payroll service provider (desirable).
• Experience in managing large transition projects (desirable).
• Great coaching and mentoring skills.

Benefits & culture

Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Birmingham and Kochi (India). We’re passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself!

To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture : mental health support, maintaining a healthy work / life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.

Here’s what you’ll gain if you join our team :

• A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
• A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
• 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more. You’ll even get your birthday off as well!
• Private medical insurance, life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure