Payroll Supervisor

Our client who is one of the world's leading independent assurance, tax and advisory firms, are driven by independent thinkers that provide high quality business and financial advice to a wide range of clients in countries all over the world, are lookingfor an experience Payroll Supervisor for a 12 month contract assignment to cover maternity leave.

They would also look at fully remote working with the odd day visiting the offices in Reading of Milton Keynes.

**Job Description Summary**:
We believe we’re best positioned to make a meaningful impact on the economy. Every day, we provide a diverse range of organisations with the kind of business and financial advice it takes to do this. Our ideas and insight empower our clients to make bigdecisions about the future and unlock sustainable growth. With a relentless focus on quality and integrity, we help businesses, communities and our people to flourish.

**Let’s talk about the job**

If you enjoy working on a wide-reaching range of projects that will help businesses and communities flourish, you’ll fit right in. Here are some things you can expect from this Payroll Supervisor role.
- **Making quality second nature.** This means doing what’s right even when no one’s looking. The work that you will do has a major impact on our clients and our firm. We pride ourselves on the high-level standards we have for the work that wedo.
- **Own your own work.**Working alongside other Payroll Supervisors, you will co-lead payroll operations to ensure all outsourced client payrolls and electronic bank payments are processed accurately and on time. You will ensure all client workis carried out accurately, profitably and on a timely basis in accordance with the firm's professional standards and to the satisfaction of clients and engagement partners. You will have solid payroll technical knowledge allowing you to proactively reviewall payroll work before it is sent to clients.
- **Be a part of a team.** You will be working with a team of likeminded payroll professionals. You will be supervising and developing our Payroll Associates and Trainee Payroll Associates technically and operationally. You will lead in managingeach team members client portfolio and ensuring that work is re-allocated as required to cover absence, bottlenecks and unique events. You will be fully supported by the Payroll Management team and other Payroll Supervisors and will report to a Payroll Manager.
- **Take responsibility.** You will have a busy and varied role. The key elements of the role will include:

- Preparing approximately 10 complex payrolls per month ranging from 1 to 400 employees from start to finish to a high level of accuracy whilst meeting strict client deadlines
- Payroll and electronic bank payment reviews
- Escalation point for technical or operational issues
- Supervising workload within the pod system, and ensuring that work is re-allocated as required to cover absence and bottlenecks
- Reviewing Payrolls prepared by Payroll Associates and Trainee Payroll Associates
- Dealing with escalation issues arising from clients
- Ensuring accurate and timely delivery of payroll output and payments
- Attending client meetings.
- **Build your brand.**You will actively seek opportunities to attend training courses to develop technical and personal skills to enhance your own personal brand. You will be working effectively with all members of the team, building the confidenceand respect of peers and subordinates.

**The minimum criteria**

**Skills to set you apart**:
Here are a few more skills we are looking for. Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box. It’s important for us to support you in your role and help you to develop along the way.
- Experience of outsourced payroll in a bureau environment
- Strong payroll technical knowledge
- Advanced level Excel skills
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and flexible in approach
- Able to work under pressure in a high turnover environment and prioritise own workload
- Good communicator with colleagues and clients
- Wants to be part of a growing service line within the organisation

**Share ideas and profits**

Unlike most firms, they also have a shared enterprise. So when the firm does well, everyone does well by taking home a share of the profits. Of course, to get those profits, they need to share ideas and share responsibility for our work, too.

**Excellent Benefits include**:

- Bike4work
- Buying holiday
- Charitable contributions
- Childcare scheme
- Critical illness cover
- Dental insurance
- Health assessment
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Pension
- Personal accident insurance
- Private medical scheme
- Travel insurance
- Eye care