We're looking for a Payroll Team Leader to join our Head Office team based in Bury!
The Payroll team supports our colleagues across the business by ensuring their pay is processed seamlessly. Our aim is to deliver a first-class service so our colleagues can keep doing what they do best!
Job Title: Payroll Team Leader
Working hours: 40
What You'll Be Doing:
* Ensuring the completion of payrolls for 35,000 colleagues over 43 payrolls, including 5 Offshore payrolls, over weekly, lunar, and monthly pay frequencies.
* Ensuring the team meets key deadlines and SLAs to a high quality.
* Promoting best practices and ensuring the team keeps our colleagues at the center of what they do.
* Training the team on payroll processing and legislative changes, monitoring their performance, and helping them develop in their careers.
* Proactively keeping an eye on trends in queries and liaising with key stakeholders across the business to resolve issues at source.
* Being the go-to person for guidance and support both within the team and across the business.
What We're Looking For:
* Experience of working with CoreHR payroll software.
* CIPP or similar accredited.
* Experience of mentoring a large team.
Essential skills:
* Previous experience of working with high volume payrolls.
* A solid understanding of payroll, benefits, and general legislation, ideally including some offshore legislation knowledge.
* Strong time management and coordination skills to help manage the team to meet key deadlines.
* People focused, with a desire to see your team succeed.
* A desire to learn and continuously improve.
* A keen eye for detail and accuracy.
* Able to organize your time to meet key deadlines both by yourself and as part of the team.
* Excellent communication skills to break down pay queries and make them understandable for our colleagues and your team members.
The Company:
The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors, and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues across 3,400 stores in over 30 markets worldwide.
We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognize the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.
To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-first, digital leader, and customer-focused organization that provides operational excellence and continuously identifies new areas of growth in our day-to-day.
We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today, and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:
* Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online.
* Discounted Gym membership.
* Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.
* Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications.
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