PAYROLL & HR SERVICES MANAGER This dynamic career opportunity exists with a sizeable, UK blue chip organisation on a transitional journey of growth and evolvement. Without a doubt, it is a great time to join a high-energy team and fast-paced working environment, where you will be able to make your mark in a role that offers you the opportunity to evolve and progress a complex Payroll function and its associated HR and administrative services. As Payroll Lead, having overall responsibility for ensuring payroll is effectively delivered month on month, your primary remit is to provide excellent Payroll and People Support Services across this complex business, inclusive of first-line colleague support, with a Payroll and Onboarding team reporting in, ensuring effective team and service delivery in line with SLAs. Collaboratively engaging across the People Team and facilitating a high-performance culture and key to this role, you will identify, support and deliver the continuous improvement of Payroll and HR systems, processes and policies. About You Essentially you must have a high level of payroll knowledge and experience, the more complex the better. Experience of working collaboratively with an outsourced payroll provision would be advantageous, but you must still be confident and able to reconcile, report and lead a sizeable and complex payroll function, with a hands-on approach and the willingness to roll your sleeves up when necessary. A performance track record of implementing Payroll Systems and Administration change, improvement and systems development would be hugely beneficial, particularly in transitioning from complex manual to automated systems. CIPD / CIPP qualification would be desirable, but not essential. However, you must be highly IT literate, with strong Excel skills in particular. A confident collaborator and a strong, highly effective leader of high-performing teams, you will be a natural problem solver, with great attention to detail, an analytical outlook and a keen driver of change, performance improvement, systems evolvement and continually enhancing delivery of services. This offers hybrid working (2 fixed days in the office, based in the West Midlands). Please note, if you would like to apply, you must have full eligibility to live and work in the UK