Payroll Manager

2 months ago


Manchester, United Kingdom AQA and AQA Affiliates Full time

**Payroll Manager**

**Permanent**

**Manchester £45000 - £51000**

**Hybrid working**

Are you a **Payroll Manager** looking for the perfect balance between challenge and quick wins.

You'll be looking for a company that is driving medium and long-term growth which will include **integration's**, **TUPE and transfers**whilst putting customers front and centre.

You're a **true leader who excels at bringing people with you** in a collaborative style whilst **motivating and empowering your teams**to succeed.

**Purpose**

To lead and develop your Payroll team through a period of change, ensuring the right processes are in place and embedding system improvements. Build a strong outward facing relationship with key stakeholders, and drive a continuous improvement culture

Work with your team to drive personal and professional development through performance delivery, engagement and clear achievable yet positively challenging objectives.

With over 1200 FTE, doubling in size seasonally and an associate (contract) workforce of 35000 you'll thrive on complexity, challenge and continuous improvement.

**What's in it for you?**
- **Strategic influence** and impact across the business and to thousands of teachers nationwide.
- Professional and personal **development at your fingertips**.
- **Supportive and driven peer group** and senior leadership team as well as a motivated team to coach, mentor and guide.
- Access to a pension which would see you paying in 7% and AQA contributing 11.5%.
- Life Assurance, PMI, Health cash plan, 35 hour working week, 25 days holiday and Christmas off increasing with services.
- The **ability to unwind and focus on self-care** through the full Headspace App and our Employee assistance and wellbeing programmes.

**What you'll do**
- Create effective and robust governance of all payroll activity, ensuring effective control frameworks and process documentation are in place and regularly reviewed for the Payroll department.
- Lead the team to deliver a fit for purpose payroll system implementing system changes and enhancements to support the direction of the business. Where external contractors are used then manage their deliverables. Working alongside Enterprise technology team manage the relationship with our payroll support provider.
- Undertake timely production of KPI Dashboard for Payroll with Root Cause Analysis to drive Right First Time performance and any reporting required to provide Payroll/Pensions visibility and analysis.
- Take **accountability** for direction setting, capacity planning and direct line management of a large team, including a specialist payroll customer services offering, technical payroll analyst and senior payroll administrators alongside a team that increases in size on a seasonal basis.
- Work collaboratively, coach, negotiate, influence and provide constructive challenge

**To succeed in this role** you'll have led and motivated payroll teams through change and were successfully involved in software implementation whilst working with multiple worker payment types and leading on year end payroll processes and reporting. Keeping an eye on all times to ensure working practices and your reporting suite is fit for purpose and adapts to the changes in the business. Here at AQA we have recently implemented MHR iTrent.

Proven experience in project management methodologies, setting and managing objectives and enhancements in a motivated and engaged team will be key to your appointment.

At AQA once you have committed to us, we commit back. This could be your new role and the one after that. Career development and progression is a real part of your ongoing conversation and we wont hold you back.

**What next?**

We are looking to hold interviews and offer by the middle of May via a 2 stage process as we want you to be able to get to know us too.

**Recruitment Agencies**

We have a preferred supplier list (PSL) in place.


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