Payroll Manager

Jacob Grey have partnered with a prestigious and well-established organisation to source a new Payroll Manager. Reporting to the HR Director with a dotted line to the Finance Director, you will be in the in-house expert on all payroll and pension matters for the organisation, ensuring full accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery as well as providing guidance and recommendations to the senior leadership team. The duties This is a stand alone role, with no management responsibilities. Your duties will include, but are not limited to: Ownership and responsibility for managing all end-to end-payroll operations for up to 450 permanent employees across 3 sites All aspects of payroll administration including calculating SSP, SMP, setting up starters and leavers, issuing P45s, calculating holiday pay/pro rata salary, etc Completing accurate payment runs monthly for all staff and dealing with any associated queries Liaising with the external payroll bureau monthly (currently the bureau is supporting the data entry for the monthly payroll whilst payments themselves are processed in-house) Ensuring compliance with relevant legislation such as HMRC and statutory payments Administering the organisation''s pension scheme, acting as the main point of contact for the pension providers Project work including reviewing existing payroll processes and systems and making recommendations for change as well as overseeing any subsequent implementation / migration Financial reporting and analysis ..... full job details .....