Sole Payroll Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing, highly acquisitive business with the Utilities industry to take ownership of the payroll procedures (10+ entities and 1k employees).

Client Details

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

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.

Profile

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)

Job 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