Payroll Team Leader

Ref: 218-JH

Role: Payroll Team Leader

Salary: Competitive

Location: Chesterfield

Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Benefits:

• Hybrid working
• Birthday off after qualifying period
• Weekly rewards
• Employee discounts 
• Ongoing training and development
• Annual colleague awards and recognition events
• Salary advance scheme

The role

Glu Recruit is recruiting for an experienced Payroll Team Leader to join a large, established organisation in Chesterfield.

Reporting to the Group Payroll Manager, you’ll lead a team of four and oversee the accurate and timely processing of payroll for approximately 2,600 employees across hourly and salaried payrolls. You’ll combine hands-on payroll expertise with team leadership, compliance, reporting and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of four payroll professionals
• Oversee payroll processing for approximately 2,500 hourly paid and 100 salaried employees
• Ensure payrolls are processed accurately and on time
• Review and reconcile payroll outputs and ensure appropriate approvals are obtained
• Maintain compliance with HMRC regulations, tax legislation, pensions and statutory requirements
• Keep up to date with payroll legislation and implement required changes
• Ensure payroll liabilities are paid within required deadlines
• Resolve employee payroll queries professionally and empathetically
• Analyse payroll data, identify trends and errors, and produce reports
• Support reporting including gender pay gap and PSA requirements
• Support internal and external audits and maintain appropriate documentation
• Work closely with People, Operations, IT and external partners to improve payroll processes and data accuracy
• Identify opportunities for automation and process improvements
• Support payroll system implementations, upgrades and testing
• Escalate payroll risks, issues and improvement opportunities to the Group Payroll Manager

The successful candidate

• Proven experience managing payroll operations within a medium to large organisation
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation and HMRC requirements
• Previous experience supervising or managing a payroll team
• Experience using payroll systems
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work effectively across all levels of an organisation
• CIPP qualification would be advantageous
• Exposure to P11D, payrolling benefits and PSA reporting would be beneficia