Pssl – Interim Payroll Manager

Salary: £42,000 – £54,000 per year

We have recently announced the creation of Pilgrim’s Shared Services, a fourth stand-alone company, which will bring together some of the support functions of our current three businesses (Moy Park, excluding France and Netherlands, Pilgrim’s UK & Pilgrim’s Food Masters). Its purpose is to deliver a high-quality shared service to those three businesses.

As the business grows, this shared service will broaden opportunities for career development as part of a far larger organisation. We will also continue our investment in technology to drive efficiencies and improved ways of working.

The Shared Services company includes a dedicated Procurement function. Reporting to Transactional Services Director, we are pleased to advise that we are now recruiting for an Interim Payroll Manager (12-month FTC).

The Role

• Holds overall responsibility and accountability for all Moy Park and Pilgrims Food Masters payrolls
• Leading high-performing teams for Payroll related duties
• The delivery of service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• The highest standards of financial control and meeting all compliance requirements, including SOX
• Setting the agenda within the Payroll teams for driving process improvements and digitalisation, working collaboratively with the Continuous Improvement team to secure delivery.
• Transition management of transferring PFM Payroll to align with agreed target operating models and ensure continuity of services to all business units.

Job Responsibilities 

• Timely and accurate delivery of all payrolls withing area of accountability
• Maintain a full working understanding of the organisation’s payroll procedures and other integrated business processes.
• Ensure delivery of a high quality, customer focused, and cost competitive service to the wider business in accordance with agreed Service Level Agreements.
• Ensure all targets and deadlines defined in KPIs and SLAs are met according to BUs’ expectation and agreement. Develop and maintain strong process controls to secure the completion of above
• Lead and manage the Payroll team-leaders from ’hire to retire’, managing performance, providing coaching, guidance and motivation, and developing colleagues to meet their potential.
• Assign and prioritise workloads within the team to deliver high quality results, to enable development of colleagues and to ensure uninterrupted service in the event of absence and holidays.
• Ensure that appropriate controls are implemented to reduce the risk of delays and errors, and implement actions to mitigate any impact.
• Manage the relevant budget costs and ensure spend remains in control, regularly reporting progress.
• Promote a continuous improvement culture – strive to simplify, standardise and improve processes across all Business Units towards quality and productivity improvements.
• Ensure that all deliverables expected from improvement initiatives or transitions are identified, executed, tracked and signed-off.
• Build strong relations with key stakeholders and their teams to facilitate delivery of accurate payments

What You’ll Need

• Leadership skills
• Experience of managing a team
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Decision making skills
• Good knowledge of Payroll and HR legislation
• At least 5 years’ experience of managing a payroll team
• Thorough and meticulous with extreme attention to detail
• Advanced experience using Microsoft Office packages
• Ability to identify and resolve issues and identify process improvements
• Excellent communication skills responding to queries from both internal and external stakeholders
• Experience maintaining data with a high level of data accuracy
• Experience working with payroll software packages
• Experience working with Time & Attendance software packages