Are you an experienced Payroll Manager seeking a new Permanent opportunity? Would you like to receive Amazing benefits? If so, we have the most perfect position for you.
Payroll Manager
Location
Faversham, Kent
Salary
£50,000 – £55,000
Benefits
- Hybrid working: 2 days flexible, 3 days in the office after training
- 25 days annual leave
- Monday‑Friday, 9am‑5pm with 30 minutes for lunch
- Free parking
- Simply Health and Life Assurance cover
What makes this role exciting?
- The opportunity to modernise and shape a key function
- The chance to simplify complexity and create lasting impact
- Exposure to modern, integrated systems
- A supportive environment focused on improvement and investment in people
Key responsibilities
- Lead the end‑to‑end payroll function within a complex environment, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery across multiple payrolls
- Take ownership of payroll transformation activity, reviewing and redesigning existing processes, controls, and ways of working
- Support the consolidation and simplification of four existing payroll runs, working towards a more efficient payroll structure
- Act as a key driver of change, helping to shift a long‑established team towards new systems, processes, and behaviours
- Provide hands‑on expertise in payroll systems, ensuring optimal use of system capability
- Work closely with HR colleagues to ensure effective integration between payroll and the HR system
- Identify and address legacy payroll rules, working with stakeholders to standardise and modernise where appropriate
- Lead, develop, and upskill payroll team members, building confidence in system‑led payroll processing
- Ensure compliance with statutory requirements, internal controls, and audit standards
- Provide insight, reporting, and recommendations to support strategic decision‑making
- Oversee the company’s four pension schemes, ensuring compliance with auto‑enrolment requirements
- Support staff cost budgets and costings for new projects
Ideal candidate
- Proven experience in a Payroll Manager or senior payroll leadership role within a complex organisation
- CIPP qualification (Level 5 preferred) or equivalent
- Experience managing multiple payroll cycles and navigating operational complexity
- Demonstrable track record of delivering payroll transformation, process improvement, or change initiatives
- Experience leading, developing, and upskilling payroll teams
- Hands‑on experience with payroll systems
- Experience working with integrated HR/payroll systems
- Strong stakeholder management experience, including Finance, HR, and senior leadership
- Up‑to‑date knowledge of UK payroll legislation, statutory requirements, and compliance obligations
- Understanding of payroll controls, audit requirements, and risk management
- Knowledge of payroll best practice, including process standardisation and automation
- Awareness of system integrations between payroll and HR platforms
- Understanding of the challenges associated with legacy payroll rules and how to modernise them
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