Job Description
BELONG. There’s no place like Principality.
Our home is your home. So, when you decide to join the team, we’ll go further to bring you the warmest of welcomes. From a friendly and inviting environment to a flexible benefit package designed around you – when it comes to belonging, there really is no place like Principality. We keep it flexible wherever possible; we encourage you to look after yourself ; we do our bit in the communities we serve and support you in doing the same, and we promise to get better together .
Some reasons you may want to consider working with us; we have an award-winning flexible/hybrid working policy, we’re a 2022 winner of UK Best Large Workplaces for Women, we have a newly refurbished hi-tech office in the centre of Cardiff designed around colleague feedback, we ranked number 6 for wellbeing in 2022, we have an extensive financial and well-being benefits package ‘’Belong’’ designed to put our people first, we have consistent colleague engagement scores of over 85% and a caring community of supportive Networks. But that’s not all, discover why there’s really no place like Principality;
We have an exciting interim opportunity for an experienced Payroll Manager to join our team for 12 months. As Payroll Manager, you will lead a small team of Payroll Administrators with the responsibility of maximising the effectiveness of the team to ensure we provide outstanding payroll services across the business.
You will lead, mentor, and manage the team to ensure high performance, payroll compliance and professional development, holding accountability for quality of work and deliverables.
Responsibilities will include:
* Managing and supporting the payroll team to ensure payroll data is accurate and provided in a timely manner.
* Conducting payroll checks prior to submission.
* Process BACs payments to employees, HMRC and third parties.
* Expand current pre audit reports and process where necessary, monitor legislative changes ensuring any changes are set up correctly and regularly audit policies
* Develop and distribute all communication materials related and pertaining to company policies and the access and use of Services by team
* Be available and respond to enquiries from managed payroll/tax/benefits that will impact commit
* Authorise payroll payments with Finance
* Receive, review, and verify General Ledger information
* Resolve General Ledger exceptions
* Maintain the General Ledger setup
What we are looking for:
* Strong UK payroll experience
* Team management experience
* High level of Excel knowledge and expertise
* Pension and auto enrolment experience (High Level)
* High level of accuracy is essential.
* Strong communication skills
* Knowledge of payrolling benefits and P11Ds
* Exposure to high volume & complex payrolls
* Strong leadership & people management experienced
* Experience of implementing a new payroll system
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications.
If you have any questions in relation to this role, please contact the recruitment team –
‘’We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace where diversity is celebrated and where colleagues feel a sense of belonging’’ Daniel Priest, Inclusion Manager. But don’t just take our word for it, see what our colleagues say about working here too; Careers (principality.co.uk)