Sole Payroll Manager

Michael Page (UK); Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Sole Payroll Manager to oversee payroll compliance and transformation initiatives. The individual will audit external payroll providers, improve submission accuracy, and collaborate with finance to ensure correct payroll processing. The role is based in Hounslow, offering a salary between £65,000 - £72,000 per annum, along with benefits including life insurance and holidays.

Benefits

Life Insurance

25 days holiday + Bank Holidays

Opportunity to develop payroll function

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll management, preferably in a European organization.
• Ability to audit payroll compliance and implement process improvements.
• Strong IT and system knowledge with technical capability.

Responsibilities

• Audit payroll providers for compliance with UK legislation.
• Create and maintain SOPs for payroll processes.
• Lead payroll transformation programs to optimize efficiency.
• Collaborate with Finance for payroll approvals and submissions.

Skills

Payroll management

Strong IT skills

Audit exposure

Project management

Job description

Overview

Continue to grow the payroll function - sole to team manager. Ownership and process oversight.

About Our Client

Our Client

• Growing and highly acquisitive business
• Trading for 20+ years
• Operating in over 15 countries globally
• Employing over 1,000 people worldwide
• Hounslow location but based internationally

Job Description

Sole Payroll Manager

• Audit external payroll providers for compliance with UK legislation, HMRC, RTI, and other regulatory bodies, identifying and mitigating risks.
• Audit pension schemes to ensure compliance, including auto-enrolment, salary sacrifice impacts, and absence periods.
• Create and maintain SOPs and payroll documentation for end-to-end payroll processing, preparing for potential changes in payroll providers.
• Act as the main contact between operational managers and payroll providers to ensure consistency, compliance, and understanding of payroll processes.
• Improve payroll accuracy by reducing late submissions and post-termination payments, and deliver cost savings by reducing third-party queries and billable hours.
• Audit Time & Attendance data to ensure correct processing of hours, overtime, and absences.
• Lead payroll transformation programs to optimise efficiency and accuracy, including process improvement projects.
• Ensure year-end submissions (P11d, P60s, Form 42) are accurate and compliant, and conduct National Minimum Wage audits.
• Collaborate with Finance for monthly payroll approvals, ensuring accuracy and coordinating BACs approval and fund release.
• Implement and drive process change and automation, identifying technologies to deliver lean solutions, and handle sensitive payroll data with confidence.

The Successful Applicant

Sole Payroll Manager

• A Payroll leader and manager - prior exposure and experience necessary (European organisation highly desirable)
• Strong IT Skills
• Mutli site and multi entity
• Excellent system knowledge and technical ability
• Based within Hounslow
• Prior exposure to management of payroll projects
• Exposure to Audit, payroll transformation strategy as well as moving through project work (current to future state)

What\'s on Offer

Sole Payroll Manager

• Salary: £65,000 - £72,000 per annum
• Life Insurance
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Hounslow based - 4x days per week in the office, 1x day work from home
• Payroll Compliance, Audit, Transformation and process ownership
• Opportunity to develop the payroll function