Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Impress employers and recruiters.
Choose from hundreds of resume examples.

Target Resume Now

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Payroll Manager to lead our payroll function and ensure the accurate, compliant, and timely delivery of payroll services. This is an exciting opportunity for a payroll professional with strong leadership skills, extensive payroll knowledge, and a passion for continuous improvement. The successful candidate will oversee the end-to-end payroll process, manage a team of payroll professionals, ensure compliance with statutory requirements, and drive enhancements to payroll systems and processes.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing the monthly payroll processing for all payrolls, both existing and any new customers
• End-to-end payroll processing on Oracle Payroll
• HMRC submissions
• Year end - including P60s and P11Ds
• Produce and reconcile reports at the end of each payroll period for stakeholders
• Pension administration including teachers pensions
• Ensure all pension reports are completed and submitted to the providers within the agreed timeframe
• Managing a team including training and staff development
• Leading and supporting payroll projects
• Driving improvement and positive recommendations
• Ensure all statutory reports for all payrolls are generated and submitted with the correct data within agreed deadlines
• Ensure compliance with NMW and London living wage
• Complete ONS surveys as due
• Manage CHAPs payments, back dated payments, including pay awards, deductions & salary sacrifice elements & court orders, overpayments
• Creating and sending BACS files
• Handling complex payroll queries
• System updates as and when required
• System configuration

Requirements

• Satisfactory employment references and CIFAS identity checks
• Satisfactory declaration of interest
• Continued professional body registration
• Public-facing role requires fluent English, with confidence and accuracy, sufficient for effective performance of the role

Skills

• Payroll management
• Leadership skills
• Extensive payroll knowledge
• Continuous improvement
• Oracle Payroll
• HMRC submissions
• Year-end processing (P60s, P11Ds)
• Report reconciliation
• Pension administration
• Statutory reporting
• NMW and London living wage compliance
• ONS surveys
• CHAPs payments
• BACS file creation
• Complex payroll query resolution
• System updates
• System configuration

Location

• London

Work Type

• Full time
• Permanent

Experience Level

• Experienced

Education Level

• CIPP
• Evidence of continuous professional development

Salary/Compensations

• PO6 £54,267 - £57,402 (Cost of living pay award pending)

Benefits

• Good Work Standard employer accreditation (fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression, diversity and recruitment)
• Flexible working arrangements considered

About the Company

• Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work.
• A highly ambitious borough, driven by culture and the innate creativity of its residents, developing new and innovative ways to build communities.
• A Council that is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded.
• One of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers, committed to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace.

Equal Opportunity

• Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff.
• The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population.
• Uses statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace.
• Committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: Promoting equality of opportunity, Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage, Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels, Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all.
• Respecting Diversity is a core Council value.
• Operates an anonymous shortlisting process to reduce the risk of bias in recruitment activities.
• Operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first.
• Considers candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme.