Payroll Manager - 12 Months Full Time Contract (Hiring Immediately)

JR United Kingdom; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the payroll sector seeks a Payroll Manager based in Glasgow. This role involves managing complex payroll functions, ensuring compliance, and overseeing a team to contribute to process improvements. Ideal candidates will possess extensive payroll administration experience and display strong leadership and strategic thinking skills.

Qualifications

• Extensive payroll administration experience, especially with large payrolls.
• Experience managing a team expected.
• Success in driving process improvements from conception to implementation.

Responsibilities

• Manage UK and Crown Dependency payrolls and transition payrolls to the EME team.
• Oversee payroll activities and ensure compliance with HMRC.
• Lead a team and set objectives to foster a productive work environment.

Skills

Payroll administration

Decision-making

Strategic thinking

Risk management

Influence at senior levels

Change management

Job description

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Client:

Barclays Bank PLC

Location:

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Posted:

10.06.2025

Expiry Date:

25.07.2025

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Job Description:

In this Payroll Manager role, you will manage UK and Crown Dependency payrolls, lead the transition of Crown Dependency payroll to the EME team, and oversee post-payroll activities, ensuring accurate payments and submissions to HMRC and vendors. You will collaborate with the Control team for monthly processes, review working instructions, and ensure timely HMRC returns.

The role involves contributing to change projects and the Global HR Transformation Program, focusing on system design, implementation, and process reengineering. Key responsibilities include overseeing payroll activities, providing support, implementing operational governance, ensuring team readiness for change, and maintaining legislative compliance. Collaboration with Continuous Improvement and Change Teams and participation in projects are also essential.

To succeed, you should have extensive payroll administration experience, especially with large, complex payrolls, and experience managing a team. You must demonstrate decision-making, influence at senior management levels, and success in driving process improvements from conception to implementation.

The role may also involve assessing key skills such as risk management, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, and technical expertise.

Purpose of the role

Manage payroll functions, including calculating employee pay, withholding taxes, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring compliance.

Accountabilities

• Process payroll for various employee types, calculate taxes and contributions, and handle payments.
• Maintain payroll records and troubleshoot issues.
• Support employees with payroll queries, including salary calculations, bonuses, and deductions.
• Ensure statutory filings and liaise with tax authorities.
• Contribute to policy development, operational effectiveness, and collaborate across functions.
• Lead a team, set objectives, coach, and appraise performance.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviors to foster an excellent work environment.
• For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members.
• Consult on complex issues and support risk mitigation and policy development.
• Manage risks and strengthen controls.
• Coordinate with other areas to achieve organizational objectives.
• Analyze data from multiple sources to solve problems creatively.
• Communicate complex or sensitive information effectively.
• Influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

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