Head of Payroll

**Role: Head of Payroll & Benefits**

**Location: Horsham office**

**Hours: 8:45am - 5:00pm Monday to Friday**

**Salary: £60,000 - £65,000**

**Duration: Permanent**

Reporting to the HR Director, initially, this role will focus on supporting the integration and migration of a number of business units/delegations into Kheops SAP software throughout 2023 and 2024.
This role will also have responsibility for the management of 2 separate payroll teams across 2 locations: Horsham and Watford.

**Responsibilities**:

- Supporting the systems development for the change in payroll for all employees to Kheops by April 2024. This includes overseeing the team running parallel pay runs to ensure accuracy during the migration.
- Working with the HRD and EXCOM to develop and implement an appropriate Pay & Benefits strategy for the new UK Division. This includes establishing the "Third Way" - a convergence of bringing together the various different benefit strategies and packages.
- Managing the 2 payroll teams to ensure a compliant and accurate payroll function.
- Keeping abreast of law changes, tax directives and other information relating to Payroll by doing research, obtaining updates and gathering information through appropriate channels such as Payroll Institutions and Regulatory Bodies.
- Managing annual contractual and voluntary benefits campaigns.
- Work in positive partnership with other departments, such as Pensions and Insurance, to carry out any fit and gap analysis as requested between delegations and help ensure that any new benefits are fully scoped, costed and delivered as agreed.

**Your experience**:

- Come from a business, HR, payroll or finance background, with embedded relevant managerial experience. Related professional qualifications would be an advantage.
- Be highly commercial and able to align reward policy to business objectives
- Have experience of managing a team of people in a multi-site environment
- Be able to evidence excellent project management skills
- Have a very high degree of analytical skills
- Possess the critical thinking skills required to interpret the solution needed for a particular situation as well as the creative thinking skills required to use available data to help implement an appropriate strategy that will deliver business outcomes.
- Offer a strong business mind with excellent skills in communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution. You are passionate about delivering HR service excellence and you build high level of impact and influence with critical stakeholders. You are a strongcollaborator, working positively with and through other people, with strong influencing skills as you will be relying on non-hierarchical relationships to achieve successful outcomes.
- Hold solid understanding of delivering to strategic initiatives translating into bottom line results and a track record of guiding deployments from evaluation through testing, deployment, and adoption.
- You have a proven record and know-how of change management.
- Demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Be a team player with the aptitude to work independently as well as cross-functionally
- Offer the ability to prioritise own workload, analyse problems and demonstrate the ability to overcome barriers.
**Essential Qualifications/Skills**:

- Come from a business, HR, payroll or finance background, with embedded relevant managerial experience. Related professional qualifications would be an advantage but not essential
- Be highly commercial and able to align reward policy to business objectives
- Have experience of managing a team of people in a multi-site environment
- Be able to evidence excellent project management skills
- Have a very high degree of analytical skills
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