Payroll Team Leader

Portfolio Payroll are currently working with a high end retailer in the Harrogate area who are currently recruiting for a Payroll Team Leader to join their team. They provide an excellent working environment, work from home opportunity and freebies!

Key Duties/Tasks:

• Leading a team of 3
• End to end payroll processing for 1700 staff
• Distributing workload and day to day team management
• Technical skills including systems & excel
• High level technical month reconciliation
• Support the busy payroll department high volume starters and leavers
• Experience dealing with multiple payrolls of varying shift patterns
• Must have very strong Excel as lots of manual processing
• High volume, fast paced
• Pension and Autoenrollment
• Provide comprehensive advice to employees in relation to payroll queries
• Ensuring all necessary payments are made within the deadlines set, for example Pension Contributions and BACS Salary Payments
• Manual calculations
• RTI Submissions
• Reconciliation of weekly timesheets along with the input of overtime
• Experience of T & A system useful

Desirable skills and attributes:

• Industry experience would be great but not essential
• Previous senior payroll experience or long term payroll experience in a fast paced and high volume environment
• People management
• Accountability
• A keen eye for detail
• Enjoy working within a team
• Strong basic maths skills
• Confident on the phone
• Excellent communicator as you will be answering queries
• Confident with Excel
• CIPP advantageous not essential

Benefits

• Group profit share scheme
• Pension 3% employer contribution, minium 4% employee contribution
• 1 x Life Assurance
• 25% employee discount
• Free employee Meals and drinks during working hours (when we are in the office)
• Up to 25 days paid holiday each year plus public holidays
• Normal working hours are 40 hours per week, 8.30am to 5.30pm with 1 hour unpaid break
• Hybrid working 3 in 2 at home