This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing, highly acquisitive business with the Utilities industry to take ownership of the payroll procedures (10+ entities and 1k employees).

Client Details

Our Client

Growing and highly acquisitive business
Trading for 20+ years
Operating in over 15 countries globally
Employing over 1,000 people worldwide
Hounslow location but based internationallyDescription

Sole Payroll Manager

Audit external payroll providers for compliance with UK legislation, HMRC, RTI, and other regulatory bodies, identifying and mitigating risks.
Audit pension schemes to ensure compliance, including auto-enrolment, salary sacrifice impacts, and absence periods.
Create and maintain SOPs and payroll documentation for end-to-end payroll processing, preparing for potential changes in payroll providers.
Act as the main contact between operational managers and payroll providers to ensure consistency, compliance, and understanding of payroll processes.
Improve payroll accuracy by reducing late submissions and post-termination payments, and deliver cost savings by reducing third-party queries and billable hours.
Audit Time & Attendance data to ensure correct processing of hours, overtime, and absences.
Lead payroll transformation programs to optimise efficiency and accuracy, including process improvement projects.
Ensure year-end submissions (P11d, P60s, Form 42) are accurate and compliant, and conduct National Minimum Wage audits.
Collaborate with Finance for monthly payroll approvals, ensuring accuracy and coordinating BACs approval and fund release.
Implement and drive process change and automation, identifying technologies to deliver lean solutions, and handle sensitive payroll data with confidence.Profile

Sole Payroll Manager

A Payroll leader and manager - prior exposure and experience necessary (European organisation highly desirable)
Strong IT Skills
Mutli site and multi entity
Excellent system knowledge and technical ability
Based within Hounslow
Prior exposure to management of payroll projects
Exposure to Audit, payroll transformation strategy as well as moving through project work (current to future state) Job Offer

Sole Payroll Manager

Salary: £65,000 - £72,000 per annum
Life Insurance
25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
Hounslow based - 4x days per week in the office, 1x day work from home
Payroll Compliance, Audit, Transformation and process ownership
Opportunity to develop the payroll function