Payroll Team Lead

Payroll Team Lead

£29000 - 35000

Permanent - Stevenage

We are seeking an experienced, knowledgeable and motivated Payroll Team Lead to join a well established and successful team supporting the public sector based in Stevenage. The main responsibilities for this role are:

• Reporting to Payroll & Assistant Payroll Manager to ensure the successful running of the team payroll, providing high quality customer service, ensuring the payrolls are processed correctly and on time.
• Managing and supervising existing payroll and pension team members.
• Work with other Team Leaders, Payroll Officers & Pension Officers to ensure that staff are paid accurately and in line with both HMRC legislation and company Policy.
• Training, coaching, and advising payroll team members about payroll and pension issues.
• Able to manual calculate complex calculations which include cross tax-year Tax, NI and Pension deductions and refunds.
• Process payroll runs, supplementary runs and reversals when necessary.
• Following audit processes to ensure monthly procedures satisfies all internal and external policy and government regulations.
• Understand and ensure compliance of company terms and conditions, local trust policies and Agenda for Change regulations, for all grades of staff within the company.
• Collaborate with Human Resources (HR) and accounting teams to build good relationships to ensure the processing of data is accurate and efficient.
• Undertake Year End Processing including validating and publishing P60's and P11d.
• Proactively maintain up to date knowledge of HMRC legislation.
• Oversee the completion of Payovers for HMRC and Third-Party Payments.
• Maintain and review the overpayments spreadsheet ensuring action is taken to recovery outstanding funds in line with policy.
• To maintain a timetable to ensure any batch processing is appropriately scheduled. Ensure that payroll reports and output are produced accurately, on time and that any appropriate action is taken.
• To oversee the correct and effective administration of the Pension Scheme ensuring accurate data is provided using the appropriate forms or via online access to the pension's agency website.
• Advocate of the Trust vision and mission statement and Trust Values.
• Undertake Team Briefings.
• Hiring and training new payroll team members
• Complete all Core Mandatory Training and Role Essential Training through ENH Academy within the allocated timescales.

Experience and qualifications required

• Must be an experienced payroll professional
• Good experience of operating at a senior level, ensuring an excellent service is delivered to both internal and external customers.
• Good end to end knowledge and experience of a Payroll/HR system implementations is required.
• Thorough knowledge of maintaining & producing P11D's/P46 Car's is required.
• Ability to lead strategic change through promoting and enabling a continuous improvement culture.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Experience in a public sector environment is preferable
• Knowledge and understanding of all relevant legislation required.
• Demonstrated leadership ability. Able to keep momentum in changing environment.
• Effective planning and time management, excellent attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
• Excellent people skills with the ability to ensure standards are met.
• Problem solving, numeracy skills, customer service focus.

This is an excellent opportunity for a Payroll Team Lead to join a fantastic team based in Stevenage.

If you are interested in the role of Payroll Team Lead please do not hesitate to apply today.

Randstad Financial & Professional encourage applications from individuals of all ages & backgrounds. Appointment will be made on merit alone but candidates must be able to demonstrate their ability to work in the UK. Randstad Financial & Professional acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment & an employment business for temporary recruitment as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies & Employment Business Regulations 2003