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Payroll Manager

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£38,000 monthly

Job Description - Payroll Manager

We're delighted to be recruiting a Payroll Manager on behalf of a well-established and growing retail business. The Payroll Manager is standalone role reporting into the Financial Controller and offers the opportunity to take full ownership of a high-volume payroll function, ensuring the accurate and compliant processing of payroll for a workforce of over 1,000 employees. The successful candidate will play a key role in maintaining payroll integrity, delivering high-quality reporting, and supporting continuous improvement across payroll systems and processes.

  • Salary: £38,000 - £45,000

  • 37 hours per week

  • 23 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year to a maximum of 27 days, plus Bank Holidays

  • Company pension scheme

  • Life Assurance x 2 salary

  • Staff discount

  • On-site parking


Duties and responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end payroll process for a workforce of 1,000+ employees, ensuring accuracy and timely completion

  • Process starters, leavers, contractual changes, statutory payments (SSP and SMP), and holiday pay calculations in line with current legislation

  • Validate, reconcile and audit payroll data, maintaining robust payroll controls, checks and procedures

  • Process BACS payments and investigate and resolve payroll discrepancies and employee queries

  • Maintain accurate employee records within Sage 50 Payroll and SAP HR systems, ensuring data integrity and GDPR compliance

  • Produce payroll, labour cost, pension, National Insurance, bonus and commission reports to support business decision-making

  • Identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities and efficiencies within the payroll function


Required skills and experience

  • Previous experience in a Payroll Manager,  Payroll Supervisor or similar payroll position with responsibility for high-volume payroll processing

  • Proven experience managing payroll for 1,000+ employees, including statutory payments, holiday pay calculations and payroll reconciliations

  • Strong working knowledge of Sage 50 Payroll is essential

  • Experience of SAP HR systems would be advantageous

  • Intermediate Excel skills, including VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, pivot tables

  • Strong understanding of payroll legislation, compliance requirements, audit controls and GDPR principles

  • Excellent organisational, analytical and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and build effective relationships across departments




 
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