Job Description

Payroll Manager, UK

Reports To: Head of Global Payroll
Team: Payroll
Location: Reading
Job-Type: Full-Time

Purpose of the Role:
We are looking for a driven and enthusiastic Payroll Manager to join our team. As a part of our team, you\'ll engage with an amazing and inclusive group of colleagues and leaders. If you enjoy working in a fast-paced, dynamic work environment and have a desire to develop your career while making a meaningful impact on our business, this is the opportunity for you! The successful candidate will manage, lead and develop a team while working with our stakeholders to deliver best in class payroll services to the business.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility of UK payroll - manage the payroll process from start to finish, ensuring timely and accurate processing, delivery, and reconciliation.
• Review and approve payroll in line with compliance and control processes.
• Guide process and control improvements across all responsibilities and document in these areas.
• Manage the day-to-day operational relationship with our payroll vendors.
• Maintain a strong high-performing team through effective recruiting, training, coaching, team building, performance management and resource planning.
• Responsible for keeping documented payroll SOPs and work instructions up to date.
• Ensure procedures are compliant and consistent with current regulations.
• Ensure accurate processing of bank files and payments to employees and various third parties.
• Play a pivotal role testing system upgrades and new functionality rollouts, ensuring updates to statutory rules are implemented within the payrolls and communicated to stores.
• Foster and maintain positive relationships with the internal stakeholder groups.
• Partnering with P&C Leads regularly to provide legislative updates/Payroll changes.
• Assist with year-end duties such as balancing, reconciliations and reporting, for example: P11D information.
• Demonstrate a hands-on approach to problem solving.
• Deliver projects and payroll related communications.
• Demonstrate and maintain a positive customer service focus to both internal and external payroll customers.
• Responsible for drawing up payroll calendars and deadlines whilst remaining aware of tax, social security, and bank holiday deadlines.
• If required, provide support in case of labour inspections and payroll audits.
• Check and sign correspondence where required.
• Assist with monthly reconciliation process and resolution of any payroll discrepancies.
• Play a lead role with new store implementations and in the stabilisation of stores by successfully implementing existing processes.
• Oversee pension administration and returns

Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years payroll experience is required with some experience of managing people.
• CIPP Qualified or Equivalent.
• A solid understanding of payroll processes, compliance practices and systems.
• Hands-on approach to problem solving and a \'can-do\' attitude.
• Able to step in and out of day to day payroll related activities where required to support the team.
• Ability to make decisions and drive through solutions.
• Strong people management experience.
• Detailed knowledge of tax regulations including year-end processes.
• Demonstrable experience of working to deadlines and performing duties under pressure.
• Microsoft Excel knowledge to at least Intermediate level.
• Ability to see through tasks fully with minimal support ensuring team is kept on board and fully informed.
• High level of proficiency with MS Excel.
• Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment and communicate effectively to audiences of varying levels of seniority.

Personal Attributes:

• Highly organised, detail-oriented, possessing the ability to effectively prioritise projects and deliverables whilst meeting deadlines
• Excellent planning and organisation skills, ability to multi-task, plan and prioritise work schedule for self and team and work within agreed timescales.
• Excellent attention to detail and an ability to analyse and interrogate high volumes of data as well as demonstrating an ability to focus on higher level overview.
• Organizational and time management skills in managing multiple, diverse and sometimes conflicting priorities while working in a fast-paced environment.
• Proven ability in managing sensitive matters whilst ensuring all Primark information remains confidential to the business.
• Be a collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal/communication skills.
• Proven ability in developing effective working relationships across all levels of the organisation.
• Operates with a high level of integrity, diplomacy, tact and professionalism.
• Effective and persuasive presentation skills, including the ability to present complex information in an understandable manner to all areas of the business.
• Ability to lead, influence and coach others.
• Sound judgement, unquestionable ethics and integrity with high degree of transparency and trust.

Function

Finance

Job Profile

Payroll Manager

Time Type

Full-Time

Primark