Payroll Manager

Department: People

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: London

Description

What you'll be doing:

• Responsible for end-to-end monthly RVU payrolls reporting and managing the final reconciliations and sign-off process
• Ensure all payrolls are processed accurately and on time.
• Review all of our current payroll processes to ensure they increase efficiency with Workday
• The delivery of statutory UK year end processes (P60, P11D,PSA)
• Ensure our benefits broker relationship is utilised effectively
• Is a subject matter expert on all aspects of our pension and benefits
• Manage the engagement and communication of our current benefits ie: pension workshops, internal communications, webinars, annual benefits fair, benefits lunch and learns
• Monitor benefit trends to identify opportunities to develop and innovate our benefit proposition, ensuring we remain competitive and we have a differentiated and market leading offering that appeals to all of our employees across the group.
• Line management of the Payroll & Benefits Administrator
• Assist with annual pay & bonus review and ad hoc salary benchmark reporting and other key projects as directed by the Head of HR
• Oversee the management of our benefits platform, Zest
• Responsible for keeping RVU compliant with UK legislation (pension cyclical re-enrollment, national minimum wage, new tax year threshold updates)
• Responsible for pension administration (assessing workforce and paying contributions)
• Manage relationships with HR and Finance teams across the Group
• Support with internal and external audits
• Contribute to key reporting processes such as gender pay gap reporting
• Collaborate with Financial controller to ensure workforce is assigned the correct financial cost and allocation

What we're looking for

• Credible, fast-thinking, collaborative, results-driven and commercial individual
• Apply a methodical and meticulous approach to solving difficult, sometimes ambiguous, problems
• First class stakeholder management & influencing skills
• Stakeholder management & communication- excellent communicator with the ability to effectively interact with and influence at all business levels
• Collaborative, hands-on approach to ensure success across a team based environment
• Experience specialising in payroll and benefits for 700+ employees
• Experience of managing payroll in Workday preferred
• Strong Excel skills (including PivotTables, INDEX, IFS, VLOOKUPs) and ability to work with large data sets
• Leadership - experience of managing a small team
• Priorisation - ability to ensure focus on the most important tasks for optimal outcomes
• Solution focused approach - challenges existing processes to identify and implement better solutions

What we offer

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300 “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing to 30 days) + 2 days “My Time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, dental plans and employee assistance programme
• Employee discounts programme
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected