UK Payroll Lead - 12 Months Full Time Contract

Barclays; Northampton; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial services sector is seeking a UK Payroll Lead for a 12-month contract in Northampton. This role will oversee payroll management for approximately 50,000 employees, ensuring compliance and leading a team of payroll professionals while driving process improvements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in payroll administration within Financial Services.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire teams.
• Proven success in managing payroll processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the UK Payroll team ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Implement changes to payroll processes and manage risk.
• Provide support and resolve payroll-related inquiries for employees.

Skills

Leadership

Payroll Administration

Compliance

Analytical Skills

Education

CIPP Level 5 Qualification or equivalent

Job description

UK Payroll Lead - 12 Months Full Time Contract

Barclays Northampton, England, United Kingdom

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As the UK Payroll Lead, you will inspire and lead our professional UK Payroll team, striving to always ensure we provide a best-in-class service that meets the needs of our approximately 50,000 UK-based colleagues, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, compliance, and resilience. You will lead our team of payroll professionals, supporting their career development and well-being, and ensuring robust succession plans are in place for all roles, including your own. You will deliver the monthly UK Payroll on time, accurately, and in compliance with all relevant requirements, including controls, Barclays policies, SLAs, regulations, and legislation. Additionally, you will ensure timely resolution of escalated and/or complex issues, requests for exceptions to standard processes and service delivery issues, and promptly report any Risk Events or Issues.

You will own and drive the implementation of projects and changes affecting the UK Payroll team, processes, and systems, ensuring minimal disruption to service. Supporting the achievement of the Global Payroll strategy, you will partner with the Service Strategy and Transformation Team to ensure any changes to processes and systems are managed appropriately.

To be successful as a UK Payroll Lead you should have experience with:

• Extensive experience of payroll administration and support, with experience at expertise level within Financial Services.
• Demonstrated leadership experience with a proven ability to lead and inspire teams.
• Chartered Institute of Payroll and Pensions (CIPP) level 5 qualifications or equivalent.
• 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 the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills

12 Months Full Time Contract - Northampton

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 of 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 calculations of salaries and wages, overtime, bonuses, and commissions.
• Compliance related statutory filings including the management of the reply to Government institution notices related to all Statutory obligations.
• Payroll statutory reporting and filing including liaison with relevant local tax authorities.
• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
• Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
• Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
• Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
• Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
• Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
• Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Accounting/Auditing

• Industries

  Banking, Investment Banking, and Financial Services

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