Payroll Manager

Hays PLC; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a proactive Payroll Manager for a 6-month FTC role in London. This hands-on position involves managing a skilled payroll team, ensuring compliance with HMRC regulations, and processing complex payrolls from start to finish. The ideal candidate will possess excellent technical payroll knowledge and the ability to mentor junior team members. With flexible hybrid working options, this role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to payroll excellence while enhancing your professional skills. If you're passionate about payroll management and ready to take on new challenges, this role could be the perfect fit for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing a payroll team effectively.
• Strong technical payroll knowledge and ability to mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll team, ensuring compliance with HMRC and legislative requirements.
• Lead payroll projects and process high volume payroll monthly.

Skills

Team Management

Technical Payroll Knowledge

Mentoring Skills

Manual Payroll Processing

Numerical Skills

Job description

Payroll Manager 6 month FTC position

Your new company
Our client is seeking a hands-on Payroll Manager to join their team on a 6-month FTC basis to cover business as usual duties.
Salary: £60-70k per annum depending on experience.

Your new role

• Manage a team of experienced payroll administrators and payroll juniors.
• Ensure that all HMRC submissions are made, payroll reconciliations carried out, and all legislative timescales are adhered to.
• Mentor and train the less experienced team members.
• Lead on all payroll-related projects.
• Process high volume payroll from start to finish, including EPS & FPS, on a monthly basis with various complexities.
• Process all statutory deductions.
• Deal with escalated queries.
• Complete RTI submissions, reports, and reconciliations.

What you'll need to succeed

• Previous experience of managing or supervising a payroll team.
• Excellent current, technical payroll knowledge.
• Ability to mentor and develop a team.
• Experience of processing a manual payroll from start to finish.
• Excellent systems and numerical skills.
• A technically strong payroll professional who can lead by example and impart their in-depth payroll knowledge to the team.

Flexible hybrid working options available.

What you need to do now
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