Reward and Payroll Manager

As the Reward and Payroll Manager, you will will lead the monthly payroll cycle across the UK&I businesses and support the Total Reward and HR Services Manager in the delivery of the organisation's reward strategy - to include benefits management, job evaluations, salary benchmarking, company car management, analytics and reporting. You will have demonstrable experience in Compensation, Benefits and Payroll management. Hybrid working from Maidenhead.

Client Details

Our client is a renowned international FMCG company

Description

As the Reward and Payroll Manager, you will be working in collaboration with the local HR teams, this role will lead the monthly payroll cycle across the UK&I businesses and support the Total Reward and HR Services Manager in the delivery of the organisation's reward strategy.

This position sits within the HR Shared Service team and is a vital role when it comes to supporting the enterprise. Alongside payroll processing, the role is responsible for compliance, monthly disbursements, the generation of statutory reporting, and supporting the Total Reward & HR Services Manager with benefits management, job evaluations, salary benchmarking, company car management, data quality and analytics, and report generation.

Rewards

• Assist in and own the delivery of data for annual benchmarking projects (Mercer); annual & monthly benefits platform cycle (My Rewards); annual ASR & Bonus and annual insurance renewals (PL, EL, Motor and all benefit providers) and work as the analytics expert in wider HR function projects.
• First point of contact for any reporting and analytics requests (e.g., Pay equity study) from the HR function, and other areas of the business, using data from the different HR systems, maintaining high standards of accuracy and presentation.
• Identifying, raising, and resolving issues with data integrity, working with the appropriate teams to make improvements through training and process modelling, to ensure all data is accurate, especially for ASR and bonus purposes.
• Perform job evaluations on request and participate in reward and payroll surveys to benchmark and analyse compensation trends.
• Oversee the full management of company car programs, including policy administration, vendor coordination, and employee support to ensure compliance with company policies and legal regulations. Act as principle contact for the annual P11d (CAR) submission.
• Own the Amazing Achievement Awards process, ensuring smooth operation and alignment with recognition objectives.
• Provide day-to-day support for benefits administration, acting as the first point of contact for employee benefits queries.
• Support the annual renewal of the benefits platform, including vendor coordination, data analysis, and employee communications.
• Serve as the primary contact for visa support, managing annual sponsorship renewal, ensuring immigration compliance, maintaining a strong relationship with Fragomen, and advising employees on visa processes.
• Active participant in all HR projects that impact payroll and rewards, such as system upgrades, testing or policy implementations.

Payroll

• Manage the end-to-end payroll process, ensuring timely and accurate payments to employees.
• Manage the relationship with outsourced payroll providers in line with SLAs.
• First point of contact for any payroll related queries from internal customers.
• Serve as first escalation point regarding any payroll issues or complaints and work with the service provider to ensure satisfactory resolution.
• Manage the annual payroll cycle/calendars/payroll deliverables (4 monthly UK payrolls, 1 Irish payroll).
• Manage and oversee processing of monthly payroll changes, for full hire to retire life cycle of associates, and checking all entries inputted by Payroll Administrator.
• Responsible for obtaining sign off from Total Reward & HR Services Manager for payroll each month and committing the payrolls within specified deadlines.
• Manage and process all benefits related payroll data, including My Rewards, TMC and Octopus cars and assist finance team with queries on invoices from benefit providers.
• Ensure HMRC documents (P11Ds, P60s etc.) are processed and distributed within the required deadlines.
• Generate and distribute all monthly payroll reports as required to stakeholders, including payroll reconciliation and General Ledger reports per payroll for finance.
• Global Mobility - liaise with tax partners Vialto and Global Mobility team in NL on LTI/ RSU's, and annual tax returns.
• Lead on any projects directly impacting payroll.

This role offers hybrid working opportunities, with the expectation that you will work from the Maidenhead office 3 times per week.

Profile

To apply for this role, your profile will closely match the following:

Must have:

• Demonstrable experience across Benefits, Compensation and Payroll activities, ideally within a blue-chip business.
• Experience working across complex functional structures and BUs.
• Proven experience in stakeholder management.
• Experience of continuous improvement within HR Services.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Inspiring team leadership style.
• Vision and desire to drive change.
• CIPD or other appropriate professional qualification; Degree level education or otherwise.

Nice to have:

• Experience in an FMCG environment.
• Experience in an international environment.
• Experience in a matrix organisation.

This role offers hybrid working opportunities, with the expectation that you will work from the Maidenhead office 3 times per week.

Job Offer

This Reward and Payroll Manager role offers the following benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• 12.5% annual bonus.
• Pension: 5% employee, 10% employer.
• PMI single cover.
• Holidays: 27 days (+3 available through holiday purchase) plus Bank Holidays.
• Flexible Benefits platform.
• Life Assurance x 4.