Payroll Manager

Payroll Manager | Shrewsbury | Permanent | £Market Rate + excellent benefit

Are you an experienced Payroll professional with system and process implementation experience?

The Company

Seymour John are working with our client based in Shrewsbury to secure a Payroll professional to manage their existing payroll function.

The Opportunity

You will be responsible for providing a full cycle payroll and pension service, whilst managing one member of staff with your key areas of responsibility to include:

1. Manage a payroll and pension service, with an understanding of manual calculations.
2. Knowledge of all statutory payroll payments to advise relevant staff and to ensure continued compliance with legislation.
3. Ensure monthly payments to external parties are made in a timely manner.
4. Ensuring all statutory and pension returns, and the apprenticeship levy are submitted.
5. Work closely with HR colleagues to ensure payroll changes are accurately and confidentially managed.
6. Provide full support for both internal and external audit services as requested.
7. Develop links and build relationships with pension providers and HMRC to ensure an efficient service.
8. Keep up to date with changing legislation relating to payroll and pensions management and communicate this to relevant individuals to ensure compliance.
9. Working and reporting on staffing budgets and provide costing information, whilst helping managers to understand their staffing establishment, budgets and payroll.
10. Take responsibility for the development of the payroll module within a new HR & Payroll system, assisting with configuration, set-up and testing and then ongoing use.
11. Work with the systems provider to develop the functionality of the payroll module and its links across the wider HR & Payroll system.

Personal Profile

The ideal candidate will be a confident Payroll professional with proven experience of managing a payroll and pension function, with an understanding of manual calculations. Ideally you hold or be working towards the CIPP qualification, coupled with prior exposure of working as part of a new HR and Payroll system implementation project. You will be an excellent communicator with a good level of excel reporting skills.

Hours and Benefits

35 hours per week (9-5) - Site based in Shrewsbury

28 days annual + Bank Holidays

Life Assurance / Pension

For further information please contact Michelle Willetts at Seymour John Ltd.

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