Senior Payroll Manager

1 day ago


Edinburgh, United Kingdom Page Personnel Finance Full time

Our client are looking for a Payroll Senior Manager to lead the payroll team. You'd be reporting directly to the Managing Partner. You would oversee the payroll service for their clients, working together with the Payroll Manager and a team of 8.

**Client Details**

Our Client is an independent chartered accountants firm who have been around for over 100 years and have offices throughout the UK.

**Description**
- Lead the payroll department, working with a Payroll Manager and overseeing a team of 8.
- Ensure the payroll service is delivered timely, accurately and in line with client service levels and statutory requirements.
- With the Payroll Manager, manage and delegate the workflow within the department.
- Act as a skilled people manager who can coach and develop a team.
- Ensure effective policies, procedures and systems are in place to ensure high standards. Make recommendations for improved practices and implement improvements.
- Maintain expert knowledge and proactively identify upcoming changes that will impact payroll. Ensure knowledge is shared in the team.
- Resolve complex payroll queries and issues as they arise.
- Regular communication with clients to enhance relationships and improve service.
- Drive business development initiatives, win new payroll clients and promote the firm generally.
- Monitor and manage department performance including the management of fees and work in progress. Suggest methods to improve profitability of client work and work with the Partners to achieve improvements.
- Responsibility for the BACS relationship and for submitting BACS files for the firm.

**Profile**
- Proven professional payroll experience, preferably with a payroll bureau at management level.
- Experience of managing people successfully.
- Experience of managing multiple payroll clients.
- Ability to continually improve work and develop solutions to problems.
- Evidence of a positive attitude of mind to work and to clients required.
- Good organisation and time management skills.
- Commercial awareness with the ability to develop new business opportunities.
- Confident at liaising with managers and business leaders.
- Strong IT skills, with working knowledge of payroll software and ideally experience of Iris (Star) payroll.

**Job Offer**

Great salary with Hybrid working.

Option to work in the Edinburgh or Glasgow office.

Opportunity to manage a payroll team of 8.

Bonus scheme.

Other great perks.


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