Pensions & Payroll Finance Manager (6 monthsFTC)

Sir Robert McAlpine; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Pensions & Payroll Finance Manager, where you'll play a crucial role in shaping financial insights for pension schemes. This key position allows you to work closely with Trustees and finance teams, ensuring compliance and accuracy in financial reporting. With a rich history of building Britain's future heritage, this family-owned business values inclusivity and offers competitive rewards. Embrace the opportunity to influence finance perception while enjoying a supportive environment that promotes personal and professional growth.

Benefits

Flexible benefits

Performance-related progression opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience in pension scheme accounting is essential.
• Qualified accountant with ACA or ACCA certification.

Responsibilities

• Prepare Trustee Reports and ensure compliance with SORP.
• Manage financial transactions and oversee pension scheme accounts.
• Provide FRS102 calculations for financial statements.

Skills

Pension scheme accounting

Financial reporting

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

Education

ACA or ACCA qualification

Job description

We are looking for a Pensions & Payroll Finance Manager to join our finance team in Hemel Hempstead.

Why join us?

Since 1869, we've worked on building and civil engineering projects that have set the standard for others to follow - right up to present-day examples like the Eden Project, Olympic Stadium, and award-winning new Bloomberg building.

We're looking forward with excitement to the projects and opportunities ahead. Our family-owned business is where you can achieve more from your career by proudly building Britain's future heritage with us.

The Pensions & Payroll Finance Manager role:

Reporting to the Head of Transactional Finance, you will provide robust, timely, and informative financial information and guidance to the Trustees of the pension scheme. You will serve as an important contact to the Trustees, Pensions Secretary, Payroll, and Finance teams.

This is a key role where the right individual can influence the perception of finance and demonstrate to the wider business the value and insight that can be derived from forward-thinking, proactive management information.

Responsibilities:

1. Prepare Pension Scheme Trustee Reports & Statutory Accounts: Complete reports and financial statements, including all relevant notes, ensuring compliance with SORP.
2. Complete HMRCReturns and ONS Surveys: Ensure timely submission within required deadlines.
3. Manage Financial Transactions: Oversee the integrity of transactions, documentary support, posting, compilation, and maintenance of portfolio pension scheme accounts, including investments.
4. Provide FRS102 Calculations: Deliver annual financial statement calculations for companies with investments in the scheme.
5. Manage Life Insurance Schemes: Handle the management and renewals of life insurance schemes.
6. Financial Accounting for Payroll: Ensure accurate accounting of payroll costs, including reconciliation of key balance sheet accounts and accountability for correct deductions and payments to third parties such as HMRC and employee benefit providers.

Your profile

• Pension scheme accounting experience is essential;
• A qualified accountant (ACA or ACCA);
• Experienced and comfortable dealing directly with key stakeholders, auditors, and other professionals at meetings, via telephone calls, conferences, and in written form.

Rewards

We're ready to invest in you and your future, offering wide-ranging, performance-related progression opportunities. Our competitive rewards packages feature flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities.

We'd love you to join us in proudly building Britain's future heritage. Apply online now.

Sir Robert McAlpine is focused on being a truly inclusive employer. Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still love to hear from you—especially if you're part of a group underrepresented in construction. Our goal is for Sir Robert McAlpine to proportionally reflect the diversity of society. As a family-run business with strong family values, we aim to ensure that Sir Robert McAlpine is a supportive, empowering, and inclusive environment for every team member.