Payroll Manager

Payroll Manager

£40-45,000 + Private Healthcare + 25 days holiday + Flexibility

East Shropshire (Near Telford, Newport, Wolverhampton, Stafford & Cannock)

The Organisation:

Working in partnership with Seymour John, my client is a privately owned family business employing up to 750 people. This successful business has consistently grown over the last 10 years and has reached circa £100m in turnover.

To quote the Finance Director, "the culture has a family feel and the people are genuinely lovely to work with. We are based in the beautiful Shropshire countryside and it’s a pleasure to come to work."

The Opportunity

You will report directly to the Finance Director and work particularly closely with your part time Payroll Administrator colleague. Responsibilities will include ensuring accurate and timely payroll processing, compliance with legal requirements, and effective leadership of the payroll function.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the payroll function for the group of companies.
• Maintain payroll information by designing systems to collect, calculate and input/upload data.
• Update payroll records by reviewing and approving changes in exemptions, insurance coverage, savings deductions, job titles, salary/wage rates and department transfers.
• Process starters and leavers.
• Process Weekly Payroll & Monthly Salaries including bonuses, travel allowance, pensions & childcare vouchers (and other pay related benefits), maternity, paternity pay and SSP.
• Manage holiday, absence, and company sick pay/SSP calculations.
• Review processed payroll for corrections.
• Prepare payslips and payroll journals.
• Prepare reports including summaries of earnings, taxes, deductions, leave, disability, and non-taxable wages.
• Oversee HMRC payroll returns and determine payroll liabilities by approving the calculation of taxes, employer's social security, unemployment, workers compensation payments and apprenticeship levy.
• Balance the payroll control accounts resolving any payroll discrepancies.
• Administer pension contributions and auto-enrollment.
• Participate in projects to improve payroll systems.
• Run Tax Year-End procedures including P60’s and prepare P11D’s.
• Respond promptly to employee payroll queries and requests for information.
• Provide any other payroll information/reporting as required including KPI, audit support and gender pay gap.
• Ensure compliance with legislation and reporting requirements.
• Produce/maintain up-to-date payroll policies and procedures.
• Provide other adhoc duties in line with role and department as required.
• Comply with all Health and Safety requirements within the company.

Skills and Qualifications:

Essential:

• In-depth knowledge of payroll processes, legislation, statutory rates, year-end procedures, benefit in kind and P11D submissions.
• Knowledge of Excel to an intermediate level
• Good organisational and management skills.
• CIPP (Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals) qualification or equivalent preferred

The standard contract is 40 hours per week, with typical working hours being 8.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday with 1 hour for lunch (this can be flexed e.g. 8:30 to 5:30 for people working around personal commitment, child care etc). We can offer the flexibility of working a day at home provided that day is a Thursday or Friday.