Interim Payroll Manager

Elevation Recruitment Group are currently recruiting an Interim Payroll Manager to join a well-established business based in York the area to cover an initial maternity period of 6 - 12 months.

Reporting to the Reward and Systems Manager you will oversee 3 junior staff members within the Payroll team and will take overall responsibility for the accurate, timely and compliant payroll service and the delivery of additional payroll projects and development.

The Main duties of the role are to include:

* Manage the payroll team and take ownership of the full end to end payroll process, delivering process and people improvements
* Oversee 3 staff members (Payroll & Benefits Co-ordinator and x2 Payroll & Benefit Administrators)
* To continuously review, develop and document payroll processes to achieve optimum efficiency, data accuracy and data quality. Train and develop the team on how to use appropriate systems and to ensure that all training materials and procedures are correct and up to date
* Responsible for management of all UK payroll related functions to ensure best practice, processing, and generation of the company payroll.
* Ensuring you deliver of a comprehensive and compliant payroll service for the company (approx. 10 payrolls, 1400 weekly/monthly employees plus 1100 headcount pensioner payroll)
* Contribute to the 2017 implementation of a new HR and payroll system covering all UK payroll processes
* Maintain knowledge of legislative changes in payroll and make recommendations on impact
* Contribute to the implementation of the people, reward and systems vision and strategy
* Assist and support the Reward and Systems Manager is adopting smart solutions in the team
* Take responsibility for seeing payroll projects through to completion with little or no daily oversight, taking account of the impact on the HR department and wider business

Elevation Recruitment Group would be keen to hear from candidates with the following stills and experience:

* Proven experience running or supervising a complex weekly and/or monthly payroll system, including knowledge of all calculations required for, for example, maternity, paternity, sickness, etc
* Strong people management experience
* Strong working knowledge and previous experience of using multiple HR and payroll systems
* Previous experience in producing financial and management reports, statistical information and analysis
* Have a strong working knowledge of employment legislation
* You will have highly developed organisational and management skills

Elevation Accountancy & Finance is a specialist division of Elevation Recruitment focusing on Finance positions in Yorkshire and surrounding regions. If you match the specified criteria and are interested in discussing the position in more detail, we would love to hear from you.

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