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We are currently working with a large City based US law firm who wish to hire a Payroll Manager to join their busy Payroll team to support their London and European offices of over 500 staff. They are keen to hire an interim Payroll Manager on a minimum 12-month FTC fulltime basis
Salary of circa £70,000 DOE pro rata and a range of benefits
Hybrid Working - 4 days office & 1 remote. Hours - 9.30am to 5.30pm
City
The Payroll Manager will have experience using a recognised Payroll system, preferably ADP Freedom, ideally from the legal sector and have hands on UK and international payroll accounting experience.
Payroll Manager Responsibilities;
- Overseeing payroll review, submission and compliance of the London and European offices
- Supervision of the Payroll Coordinator
- Main contact of department for HR, Out-sourced providers, office managers, Tax, and HMRC whilst ensuring a high level of customer care and service delivery
- Accurate input and validation of all payroll information to the on-line payroll system, ensuring that salaries are successfully processed within strict deadlines
- Overview and management of monthly process completions in accordance with internal Standard Operating Procedures
- Complete all year-end reporting of PSA, P11Ds, STVBA, London ADP Year-end process with issue of P60s
- Monitoring US paid employees on the shadow UK payroll, including calculating Tax and NI Liability for the US Payroll to implement
- Earnings, Tax & NI paid for each US associate ready for US tax returns. Liaising with the firm’s accountants during the year and at year end to ensure correct employees included on year-end filing and payments balance. Preparing and distributing P11D to US employees
- Responsible for the submission of Gender Pay Gap figures
- Work with Human Resources to calculate and execute complex termination arrangements and applying to the payroll
- Dealing with any manual payments and special requests in accordance with instructions from authorised managers and HR as appropriate
- Benefits: providing the Benefits Manager with payroll advice on specific benefits, dealing with pension queries and providing pension breakdowns, managing and processing parental leave requests
- Provision of analysis and reporting of payroll data as and when required
- Working as a fully integrated member of the team, establishing good rapport, helping and supporting other team members whenever appropriate
- Keeping up to date with changing legislation relating to all aspects of payroll
- Undertaking any other tasks or responsibilities that reasonably fall within the remit of this post
Payroll Manager Requirements;
- Candidates must have at least 4 years current payroll processing experience (UK, European and US) within a law firm or accountancy partnership as well as managing a team.
- Experience dealing with outsourced payroll providers
- Experience using ADP Freedom and advanced Microsoft Excel knowledge
- Accurate, numerate, exceptional eye for detail
- Ability to work with integrity and discretion
- Self-motivated leader and communicator able to manage own workload
