Payroll Supervisor

UHY Hacker Young Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Payroll Supervisor to join their London office. This role offers the opportunity to manage payroll processes for a diverse range of clients while being part of a supportive and growing team. You will play a key role in ensuring compliance with payroll legislation and delivering exceptional service. The company values work-life balance and provides a range of benefits to support your professional growth and well-being. If you are passionate about payroll and looking for a dynamic environment where you can thrive, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

28 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Subsidised gym membership

Life assurance

Season ticket loan

Enhanced maternity & paternity pay

Cycle to work scheme

Electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Proven payroll knowledge and experience in a payroll bureau.
• Strong understanding of UK tax and national insurance calculations.

Responsibilities

• Process weekly and monthly payrolls for various clients.
• Ensure payroll transactions comply with legislation and deadlines.
• Support a junior team member and respond to payroll queries.

Skills

Payroll Processing

UK Tax Knowledge

Excel

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Education

Relevant Payroll Certification

Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)

Tools

Excel

Payroll Software

Job description

Are you a self-motivated, hardworking, ambitious person looking for your next challenge? If you are,
and you’re looking to join a national operation with international reach, then we have a great role
for you, based at our London office near Tower Bridge as a Payroll Supervisor.

You can join a talented group of individuals in our Payroll department who support our growing
network of UHY firms across the UK.

Our firm

The UHY Hacker Young Group is a Top 25 UK network of chartered accountants with 23 offices
spanning England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We are also a founding member of UHY
International, our Top 20 global network, which has over 340 offices in all major global business
jurisdictions.

We are a people-first business, and we recognise that you, and the rest of our team, are essential to
deliver on our purpose of helping you prosper, whether you are a client, a member of our team, or
part of our wider community.

We want you to be challenged, to learn and grow while you’re with us, to have fun in the workplace,
work with like-minded individuals, and deliver great services.

Are you looking to join a team that:

• believes in and delivers a culture of work-life balance, with a focus on wellbeing?
• provides a clear career framework and routes to progress?
• understands the importance of rewarding and retaining high calibre teams?
• delivered 20% growth in the last 12 months?

If so we would love to hear from you.

Role overview

The firm is looking to recruit a Payroll Supervisor to join the London office.

Forming part of a department of seven, the successful candidate will be responsible for weekly and
monthly payrolls for a variety of UHY Hacker Young Clients and overseeing the work of a junior team
member.

Duties will include:

• Processing payrolls from beginning to end in accordance with current legislation, policies
  and processes, and time lines, while ensuring that all payroll transactions are approved by an
  appropriately authorised person.
• Process Leavers, Calculate Holiday payments, PILON and other associated termination
  payments.
• Calculation of absence including sickness, leave and statutory payments.
• Process other payments/deductions, including Auto-enrolment, Court orders and Contractual payments, ensuring that Audit and Statutory requirements are met.
• Input changes to employee personal details, e.g. bank account and address details.
• Input statutory changes, P45, P46, P6, and P9, student loan notices and court orders.
• Maintain confidentiality and make sure sensitive files are protected appropriately.
• Make ad-hoc payroll payments on occasion, and support the team in responding to questions.
• Maintain up to date knowledge of Payroll legislation and internal policies.
• Ensure all payroll deadlines are met and quality levels are maintained.
• Ensure all payrolls under your responsibility are processed and paid on time, and ensure pensions, PAYE/NI, are paid on time.
• Ensure information, policy & procedures and employee files are kept current and accurate.
• Support on a range of Payroll projects.
• Assist with monitoring the payroll inbox and dealing with queries in a timely manner.
• Perform any other tasks associated with payroll to complete payrolls within agreed deadlines.

Working arrangements

The working week: 35 hours per week (Monday-Friday) to be worked from 09:30-17:30 with
flexibility of hours to meet specific work demands.

Location: Your principal work base is our London Office, however we do accommodate working from
home once passed 3 month probation period and have a flexi time scheme in place which will allow
some movement around these hours.

At UHY it’s all about you – our benefits

• Study Package, including TOIL (Time off in Lieu).
• 28 days holiday (including bank holidays).
• Discretionary Christmas shutdown not counted as part of holiday entitlement.
• The ability to ‘purchase’ extra days leave in salary sacrifice.
• Private medical insurance at discounted rates.
• Private medical insurance (Assistant manager and above).
• Subsidised corporate gym membership at Fitness First.
• Life assurance (4x salary).
• Season ticket loan (for travel).
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity pay.
• Pension Scheme arrangements.
• Employee discount platform – UHY Plus.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Electric car scheme (coming soon).

Person specifications – Desirable experience and skills

• Preferred experience working in a payroll bureau.
• Proven payroll knowledge.
• Knowledge of UK manual tax and national insurance calculations.
• A confident user of Excel and Word.
• Good communication skills, both verbally and written, and the ability to work independently or as a member of a team.
• Invested in promoting a customer care/service-based approach and operate with discretion.
• The ability to be pro-active, flexible, and adaptable while problem solving when required.
• Experience of working in a fast-paced, growing environment.

Our core values and behaviours run through everything we do and support our purpose of helping
you prosper. They set the tone for our team to work by and we are looking for people who value the
same things as us: living empathy, making progress, being present and enjoying it!