Head of Payroll

Are you an experienced payroll professional with exceptional leadership capability?

Do you have over 10 years experience working within a busy payroll function, ideally in a multinational business?

Would you like to work for a leading business with a fantastic remuneration package?

For more information please contact Alex on [email protected]

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee payroll operations across the UK and Ireland, ensuring the timely and accurate delivery of all payrolls.
• Deliver a high-quality, customer-focused, and cost-efficient service to the wider business, aligned with agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Ensure full compliance with all relevant legislation, regulatory, and reporting requirements.
• Maintain a deep understanding of payroll procedures and integrated business processes, acting as a subject matter expert across the organisation.
• Develop and maintain robust process controls, ensuring effective governance and minimising risks of delay or error.
• Implement and monitor control reporting frameworks to ensure compliance and accuracy across all payroll processes.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, simplifying, standardising, and optimising processes across all business units to enhance quality and productivity.
• Drive problem resolution and data integrity, maintaining high standards of housekeeping, accurate data archiving, and employee master data accuracy.
• Ensure successful delivery of improvement and transition initiatives, tracking progress and ensuring all deliverables are met and signed off.
• Build and sustain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including HR, Finance, and external vendors, to ensure accurate and timely payments.
• Lead and develop the Payroll team, setting clear objectives, providing coaching and guidance, and supporting professional development.
• Prioritise and allocate workloads to maintain consistent service quality and operational continuity during absences and peak periods.
• Partner with HR and Finance leaders to support payroll integrations and system transitions.
• Support internal and external audits, ensuring documentation accuracy and transparency.
• Manage payroll budgets, maintaining cost control and providing regular progress and variance reporting to agreed timelines.

Essential

• 10+ years' experience in payroll management, ideally within a multinational organisation.
• Proven leadership experience, including managing managers and cross-functional teams.
• Strong knowledge of payroll compliance and statutory reporting requirements.
• Highly detail-oriented with exceptional accuracy and analytical skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrated ability to identify issues, resolve problems, and drive process improvements.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication, and decision-making skills.
• Experience maintaining and managing high volumes of payroll data with precision.
• Hands-on experience with payroll software and systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, HR, or a related discipline.
• Ideally CIPP qualified
• Ideally project management qualification