Payroll Manager - 12 Months Full Time Contract

www.topfinancialjobs.co.uk - Jobboard; Northampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Payroll Manager to oversee UK and Crown Dependency payrolls, ensuring accuracy and compliance in payroll processing. Responsibilities include managing team operations, ensuring timely submissions, leading change initiatives, and collaborating with various stakeholders for seamless transitions. Strong leadership, payroll expertise, and problem-solving skills are essential for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience managing complex payrolls and a team.
• Track record of influencing at senior management levels.
• Ability to handle complex situations while maintaining maturity.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll functions including calculating employee pay and withholding taxes.
• Administer employee payroll records and provide support on payroll queries.
• Ensure compliance with statutory obligations and timely submissions.

Skills

Payroll administration

Team management

Decision making

Negotiation

Risk management

Change management

Process improvement

Education

Experience at expertise level in payroll

Job description

In this Payroll Manager role, you will be managing 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 of handling complex and challenging situations.
• Evaluating and implementing/or rejecting proposed operational change.
• Proven and demonstrable success at driving process and procedural change initiatives— from conception, design to implementation.

You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in the role, 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 any other deductions, as well as maintaining accurate payroll records for the business.

Accountabilities

• Processing payroll for hourly, salaried, and commissioned employees, calculating tax and other contributions, withholding, and paying out as appropriate.
• Employee payroll record administration and troubleshooting.
• Guidance and support to employees on all payroll matters, including queries related to salary and wages calculations, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
• Compliance with statutory filings, including managing responses to government notices related to statutory obligations.
• Payroll statutory reporting and liaison with relevant local tax authorities.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions and business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using professional knowledge and skills to deliver impactful work. Set objectives, coach employees, appraise performance, and determine rewards.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, demonstrate leadership behaviors to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver excellence. The four LEAD behaviors are: Listen and be authentic, Energise and inspire, Align across the enterprise, Develop others.
• For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments, guide team members, and identify new directions for projects, incorporating cross-functional methodologies to meet outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues, providing advice to support issue resolution.
• Identify risk mitigation strategies and develop new policies/procedures to support governance.
• Manage risk and strengthen controls related to work.
• Perform work related to other areas, understanding how they coordinate and contribute to organizational objectives.
• Collaborate with other work areas to stay aligned with business strategies.
• Engage in complex data analysis from multiple sources to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information clearly.
• Influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.

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