Senior Payroll Manager

Company : Farrans

Job Description - Senior Payroll Manager

Description

We're looking for an experienced Senior Payroll Manager to lead the delivery of accurate, compliant payroll services across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Managing five payrolls for over 700 employees, you'll ensure an excellent employee experience while driving continuous improvement, governance, and payroll best practice.

You'll be an experienced payroll professional with strong technical knowledge, excellent attention to detail, and a customer-focused approach. Confident working with payroll systems and data, you'll build strong relationships, solve problems, and identify opportunities to improve processes and deliver outstanding service.

Responsibilities

Payroll Leadership & Operations

Lead the delivery of five payrolls

Ensure all payrolls are processed accurately, on time, and in full compliance with UK and ROI legislation, including

Manage payroll operations for over 700 employees, ensuring robust controls, audit readiness, and consistent service quality.

Oversee complex payroll matters including manual calculations, cross border tax considerations, and multi frequency payrolls.

Ensure accurate production and distribution of payroll documentation

Maintain payroll data integrity, ensuring all starters, leavers, transfers, and contractual changes are processed correctly across UK and ROI jurisdictions.

Governance, Compliance & Controls

Maintain expert knowledge of UK and ROI payroll legislation, taxation, employment law, and pension requirements, ensuring timely implementation of regulatory changes.

Lead on compliance activities, ensuring robust internal controls, documentation, and risk management.

Managing payroll records and systems

Partner with Finance to support reconciliations, budgeting, accounting, and cross functional governance.

Pensions & Benefits Administration

Manage the transactions, contribution uploads, and reporting for five pension schemes

Oversee enrolment, re enrolment, contribution uploads, scheme reporting, and liaison with pension providers where necessary, with HR support

Ensure accurate pension deductions, employer contributions, and statutory communications.

Systems, Technology & Continuous Improvement

Act as payroll systems lead, supporting enhancements, optimisation, and deployment of new functionality

Identify opportunities to improve payroll processes, automation, reporting, and operational efficiency.

Leverage data and analytics to inform decision making and drive process improvements.

Champion the use of technology—including AI enabled tools—to streamline payroll operations.

Stakeholder Engagement & Customer Experience

Serve as the senior point of contact for payroll queries across UK and ROI, providing expert guidance to employees and senior stakeholders.

Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, educating colleagues on payroll processes and promoting transparency.

Liasing with Group Payroll team for support, ensuring changes and processes are aligned

Team Leadership & Development

Lead, coach, and develop payroll team members, fostering a collaborative, high performance culture.

Support onboarding and development of new team members, sharing technical expertise and best practice.

Promote a resilient, supportive team environment capable of navigating competing priorities and fast paced change.

Qualifications

Significant experience managing end to end UK and ROI payroll operations in a complex, high volume environment.

Deep technical knowledge of UK and ROI payroll legislation, PAYE, NI, PRSI, USC, BIK, statutory payments, workplace pensions, and automatic enrolment.

Experience managing multi frequency payrolls and large employee populations (650+).

Strong understanding of pension scheme administration and reporting.

Experience with integrated HR & payroll systems and advanced Excel capability.

Strong analytical, problem solving, and organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.

Proven ability to manage competing demands, deliver under pressure, and maintain high accuracy.

Excellent communication skills with a customer focused, professional approach.

Experience leading or mentoring payroll teams.

A “roll up your sleeves” mindset with strong ownership and accountability.

Collaborative, supportive, and able to build trust across teams.

Resilient, adaptable, and comfortable in fast paced environments

Proactive in identifying improvements and driving positive change

Committed to delivering an exceptional employee experience.

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