Payroll Manager

7 days ago


Birkenhead, United Kingdom Cammell Laird Full time

Payroll Manager – Cammell Laird

This role, reporting to our Finance Director is responsible and accountable for the payroll function to ensure accurate, efficient, effective, compliant management of payroll cycles for all of our employees.

Our Payroll team collate and process pay information on a weekly and monthly basis for between 600 and 1000 employees who are hourly paid and salaried across 2 of our businesses.

You'll be making sure that payroll is completed on time and all external payments are processed too.

So who are we?

Cammell Laird, known across the globe and based at our Birkenhead facility, on the banks of the River Mersey expand across 130 acres which includes four dry docks, a large modular construction hall and extensive covered workshops.

We've played a strategic role in UK shipbuilding for the past 200 years, repairing, maintaining and building ships and other vessels.  

Neway, previously a subsidiary of Cammell Laird was founded in 2003 and provide a wide range of services to the marine and industrial sectors, including painting, blasting and project management services.

And what will you do?

  • You'll be hands on while you process both hourly and salaried employees payroll ensuring payments are made on time on weekly and monthly basis
  • Ensure full compliance with UK tax laws, National Insurance contributions (NIC), pensions regulations, holiday pay, statutory sick pay (SSP), maternity / paternity pay, and other payroll-related regulations. Ensure deductions and payments (e.g., PAYE, student loans) are correctly calculated and submitted to HMRC
  • You'll prepare and submit RTI (Real-Time Information) submissions to HMRC, and ensure that all necessary tax forms, such as P45, P60, and P11D, are issued on time. Ensuring compliance with auto-enrolment pension requirements and you'll make sure that contributions are processed and reported.
  • You'll maintain employee payroll records, including salary, hourly rates, overtime, deductions, bonuses, and other earnings and resolve corrections for errors or discrepancies
  • Overseeing the administration of employee benefits (e.g., pensions, healthcare) you'll ensure accurate deductions for taxes, pensions, student loans, and other voluntary benefits.
  • You'll perform regular payroll audits, verifying payroll entries against time and attendance records. Reconcile payroll-related accounts, such as PAYE, NIC, and pension contributions, ensuring they are aligned with HMRC records.
  • Addressing payroll-related queries from employees, you'll assist and resolving any issues with sensitivity, tact and discretion
  • You'll generate and present regular payroll reports, including cost analysis, labour reports, and other payroll-related financial documents for management review.
  • You'll train and support your team of 2-3 and help them with their professional development.

And what we looking for?

  • Practiced knowledge and experience of Payroll Policies and Procedures as well as awareness of UK Employment law, NI, HMRC and pension requirements
  • Strong written and interpersonal skills including the ability to work with sensitivity, tact and discretion ensuring confidentiality within payroll with the ability to explain complex payroll information to employees and stakeholders
  • Exceptional time management, planning and organisational skills to meet non-negotiable targets
  • Experience maintaining and updating payroll systems and the ability to analyse payroll data using excel for management reporting
  • The ability to pay close attention to detail while working under pressure and confidence working high volumes of data whilst maintaining an exceptionally high standard of accuracy using Excel spreadsheets
  • Problem solving skills that ensure payroll discrepancies and issues can be resolved efficiently and professionally
  • Payroll management qualification eg CIPP (Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals)

Due to the nature of what we do for some of the customers that we work with, some roles working for Cammell Laird are subject to security control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform with us.

You must also undergo a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check before your employment starts, which will include a basic DBS check.


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