Payroll Team Leader

Job Title: Payroll Team Leader

Location: Salisbury or Farnborough

Salary: £DOE + Package

Key Skills: Payroll, Team Leader, Manager, SLA, Requirements, Payslips, Reporting, Ledger, Reviews, Policies, Procedures, Month End, HMRC

An experienced Payroll Team Leader is required to play a key role in providing professional and responsive payroll service to customers both internally and externally adhering to the defined SLA and requirements.

The Role:

So, what will you be doing as a Payroll Team Leader?

• To manage the Payroll Team ensuring that all people are paid accurately and that payslips, statutory returns and reports are produced and validated in a timely manner working in conjunction with our third-party Payroll provider.
• Work closely with our Payroll provider to ensure that all reporting requirements are to quality and time
• Ensure appropriate workload allocation, sharing of knowledge, review performance and encourage a culture of continuous improvement and outstanding customer service
• Ensure the team are undertaking day-to-day payroll activity to ensure practical knowledge and smooth running of the service, enabling provision of cover on all payrolls.
• Ensure that goals are clearly communicated in Performance reviews and linked to individual and team objectives.
• Provide any required training/development for team, including developing a structured induction for new starters.
• Ensure compliance with statutory and pension scheme requirements, e.g., P11Ds, auto-enrolment.
• Ensure an efficient validation and reconciliation of post payroll output and the loading of costing files to General Ledger.
• Ensure that all reconciliation of month end payments to external agencies, such as HMRC, pensions are managed in a timely manner
• Work closely with Finance to ensure that processes align and work effectively
• Ensure Payroll team are fully informed and trained in any required improvements or changes
• Ensure all our people are updated on any pension's news/changes in a timely manner.
• Develop/review/update policies and procedures to ensure statutory compliance ensuring stakeholder engagement and effective implementation.
• Work with other internal and external teams as required including tax and finance to provide required information and continuous improvement.

What are we looking for in our next Payroll Team Leader?

• Have a proven track record of experience as a team leader / manager of a Payroll team
• Have a comprehensive knowledge of payroll systems
• Have the ability to create, review and supply policies and procedures
• Legislative and award compliance - ability to interpret relevant awards and legislation
• Problem solving ability, analytical and numeracy skills
• Strong customer focus
• Have experience coaching & mentoring of team members.
• Experience in devising & implementing strategies for service improvement

My client is keen to get this position filled ASAP, so if you feel you have the skills and desire to provide passion and drive as the next Payroll Team Leader, this is the opportunity for you!

So, if you are interested in joining a well-established, renowned, globally recognised organisation working with experts in their field as the next Payroll Team Leader, hit that apply button now!

**PLEASE NOTE***

Security Clearance (SC) or eligibility to gain is required to be considered for this vacancy

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