Payroll Supervisor

**Job Overview**:
Are you ready to lead a team of five skilled payrollers in a collaborative and supportive environment? Join us at LKQ Euro Car Parts as our new Payroll Supervisor.
We take pride in our dynamic and effective payroll department, ensuring accurate and timely payments for over 10,000 employees across the UK and Ireland. Led by our Group Head of Payroll, we offer flexibility in working hours and personal commitments, along with the opportunity to collaborate with various business areas, including Fleet, HR, and Finance. Although predominantly a home-based role you may be required on occasion to attend our luxurious Tamworth offices, free and secure parking is available, we celebrate our successes together and prioritize a culture of putting people first, treating all colleagues and customers with respect and professionalism.

**Why work for LKQ**:
We are a people first organisation for our colleagues, the customer is at the heart of everything we do, and in turn we put our colleagues at the forefront of our business. As with many of our roles, we are happy to talk about flexible working options, we are committed to supporting a healthy work life balance. We are looking for people who love what they do, are passionate about delivering only the absolute best and make it their business to excel, whatever their role. We strive to support all our employees through their individual career paths and thrive within our business.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Excellent knowledge of SAP Success Factors and SAP Payroll
- End to End knowledge of UK and Irish Payrolls
- Producing all company monthly reports for general ledger
- Calculate and report on company liability (Class 1A, Class 1B, Pensions liability, NLW/NMW increase etc)
- Working closely with Head of Payroll for continuous business and team improvements
- Providing audit support - internal and external
- Managing all payroll related payments to employees and third-party payments / invoices
- Managing schemes such as Child Care and Cycle to Work, as well as other employee benefits.
- Managing pensions, health care, company cars etc and adapt to company changes
- Completing management reports and associated query handling
- Be the main contact for outside bodies such as HMRC / Courts to ensure compliance
- Day to day management of the team
- Maintaining and improving current processes and procedures
- Performing daily payroll department operations
- Managing workflow to ensure all payroll transactions are processed accurately and timely
- Reconciling payroll prior to transmission and validate confirmed reports
- Understanding taxation
- Processing correct garnishment calculations and compliance
- Processing accurate and timely year-end reporting when necessary (P60, P11D, PSA etc)
- Developing ad hoc financial and operational reporting as needed
- Updating and reconciling monthly bank statements from SAP

**Skills and Experience**:

- Efficient leadership skills, with training and development of direct reports
- Excellent knowledge of SAP Success Factors and SAP Payroll
- Proven previous Payroll management experience is essential
- Good understanding of Microsoft Office with intermediate Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent customer service and communications skills - both verbal and written
- Excellent knowledge of pensions, benefits, and tax liabilities
- Attention to detail
- Able to work to deadlines
- Effective time management
- Professionalism for integrity of sensitive and confidential data
- Collaborative and supportive of colleagues
- Proven change management experience
- Previous T&A Kronos / UKG knowledge. We are looking to implement T&A system soon

**What we offer**:

- 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Flexible working
- 10% Bonus
- Hapi benefits retail discount on multiple retailers
- Cycle in to work scheme
- Staff discount, purchase car parts at cost plus VAT
- Genuine career progression and continual ongoing development
- Pension
- Occasional team social events (optional)
- Access to a 24-hour Employee Assistance Programme, offering financial and wellbeing support