Payroll Team Leader

Salary: £36,000 – £44,400 per year

Payroll Elite have partnered with this national organisation who is looking to recruit a strong payroll professional to join their growing team within our outsourcing function. They are seeking an experienced and responsible individual, with enthusiasm and ability to take on new challenges to support their payroll manager, in building a strong and efficient team.

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Main duties (in addition to these functions employees are required to carry out such duties as may reasonable be required)

• Working alongside the Payroll Manager to help supervise the team.
• Reviewing and processing fortnightly, monthly & quarterly client payroll for various sized clients in a diverse range of industries.
• Act as a technical lead and escalation point within the team for any unusual queries or issues. Awareness to know when a question should be referred to the partner or a specialist.
• Ability to fully cover payroll manager as necessary and act self sufficiently in managing the team and client delivery.
• Support the Payroll Manager in ensuring policies and procedures are kept up to date and are being followed consistently across the team. 
• Be proactive in improving procedures and making the team as efficient as possible, always looking to raise the quality of the service delivered to clients.
• Acting as a technical champion within the team, reviewing our current use of software and technology, and helping build a roadmap for future enhancements and improvements.
• Ensure clients are compliant with auto enrolment pension requirements and able to answer pension related questions from both the team and clients.
• Support Payroll Manager in quoting for new work and meeting new clients, taking the lead in setting up all aspects of a new payroll.

​Person Specification

• Experience of supervising or managing a payroll team
• Excellent technical knowledge (for example in relation to pensions, tax codes, PAYE, redundancies)
• Excellent systems knowledge
• Demonstrable evidence of dealing with clients and staff in a professional manner
• Ability to problem solve and seek resolutions
• Ability to take responsibility and ownership for own work as well as wider team 
• Good use of initiative
• Excellent communication skills with different stakeholders – clients, staff, partners, team across different communication channels. Must have strong written and communication skills and able to review emails drafted by team
• ​Equipment/Software Packages used
• IRIS (STAR) payroll
• Excel 
• Word
• CCH Central

​Qualifications/education required

• Necessary qualifications will depend on experience but expectation of A level standard and payroll qualification favourable

Experience required

3-5 years’ experience within a similar role 

Experience and working knowledge of using payroll software, IRIS experience desirable

Working knowledge of Word and Excel 

Working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook

Understanding of how to manually calculate tax and NI and the impact of different tax codes

Understanding of statutory payments and how these are processed through payroll

Understanding of salary sacrifice payments

Experience of Auto Enrolment and employer’s obligations 

Experience setting up new PAYE schemes with HMRC

​Particular aptitudes/ skills required

Attention to detail

Organised with the ability to meet strict deadlines

Logical and systematic approach

Highly Numerate

Strong communication skills

Computer Literate

Work on own initiative and a major team player