Group Payroll Manager

Summary of the role's main purpose:

• This role reports to the Head of Payroll in day-to-day managerial responsibility across the Group Salaries Team, ensuring that the highest level of customer service is provided to both internal and external customers
• To ensure full governance is always in place and compliance with statutory requirements
• The role will be to work in close connection with the Assistant Payroll Manager and the Senior Payroll Analyst on a day-to-day basis making sure there is a smooth running of the payrolls under the team's remit

Key Responsibilities:

• Line management responsibility for the complete team
• Overseeing all People Management including weekly 121 meetings and bi-annual PDR completion and documentation
• Maintaining relationships with service providers FMP/IRIS and Activ
• Maintaining the bureau payroll relationship
• Acting as the escalation point for payroll-related processes and liaising with HR for issue resolution
• Ensuring tax compliance with the Group Tax Manager
• Overseeing the collation of all workload and task rota of team on day-to-day processing with the assistance from the Assistant Payroll Manager
• Carrying out training assessment requirements needed for the Team and making sure this is executed
• Overseeing the Tax compliance reporting across all payrolls in house and bureau including Payrolling Benefits in Kind and P11D reporting
• Final responsibility for all checking and control process within the team
• Performing final month end checking and exception controls across all payrolls
• Monitoring and clearing shared mailbox inquiries and handling sensitive data requests.
• In conjunction with the Assistant Manager updating payroll process documentation and implementing new procedures
• Assisting in audit preparation & testing sample checks
• Controlling of Reporting for all Internal & External stakeholders
• Assisting with new payroll onboarding.
• Responsible for all managing of recruitment and onboarding
• Supporting the onboarding of a new HRIS payroll system, including testing, parallel processing, and go-live phases.
• To support with payroll ad-hoc projects.
• The role will be expected to assist the Finance Service Director to cover for the Head of Payroll when necessary.

INDPAY

49649BW