Payroll Team Leader
hace 2 días
Epsom
💼 Payroll Team Leader \n 📍 Location: Epsom, Surrey \n 🏢 Office-based through probation, moving to hybrid after successful completion \n 📌 Full-time \n \n We are looking for an experienced Payroll Team Leader to lead the accurate, compliant and timely delivery of a UK in-house payroll service within a large engineering and infrastructure organisation. \n This role is ideal for someone who has built their career in calm, controlled payroll operations and is ready to bring that discipline into a structured, multinational environment. \n You will sit at the intersection of hands-on payroll delivery and real team leadership, owning the day-to-day payroll operation, maintaining strong governance and controls, supporting legislative and benefit changes, and providing clear reporting to senior HR stakeholders. \n \n 🔎 The Role \n As Payroll Team Leader, you will lead the end-to-end UK payroll cycle, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time while supporting the payroll team with workload control, priorities, deadlines and escalations. \n You will also play a key role in payroll governance, National Minimum Wage compliance, benefits processing, reconciliations, reporting and continuous improvement. \n \n ✅ Key Responsibilities \n • Lead the end-to-end delivery of the UK in-house payroll cycle \n • Manage the payroll team’s daily workload, priorities and deadlines \n • Provide guidance, coaching and escalation support to payroll colleagues \n • Own payroll validation, reconciliations, exception checks, approvals and audit controls \n • Ensure compliance with UK payroll legislation, HMRC requirements, PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments and company policy \n • Monitor National Minimum Wage compliance, especially around salary sacrifice and flexible benefit deductions \n • Process and oversee the payroll treatment of flexible benefits \n • Partner with Reward, Benefits, HR Operations, HR Business Partners, Finance, pensions and systems teams \n • Produce payroll service reporting covering accuracy, timeliness, exceptions, service levels, incidents, risks and improvement actions \n • Act as the escalation point for complex payroll queries \n • Maintain strong process documentation, controls and audit trails \n • Support year-end and statutory payroll activity \n • Identify opportunities to improve payroll efficiency, controls and data quality \n \n 👤 What we are looking for \n • Proven hands-on experience delivering end-to-end UK payroll \n • Experience in an in-house or similarly complex payroll environment \n • Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, including PAYE, NI, statutory payments, RTI and National Minimum Wage principles \n • Experience leading or managing payroll colleagues \n • Strong workload control, coaching and escalation handling experience \n • Experience with payroll-related benefits, salary sacrifice or flexible benefit schemes \n • Confident stakeholder management and payroll performance reporting skills \n • Strong attention to detail, numerical ability and deadline discipline \n • Good Excel skills and confidence working across payroll systems, HRIS platforms and employee data \n \n ⭐ Strong Differentiators \n • CIPP qualification or recognised payroll training \n • Governance, audit and controls experience, including SOX or similar compliance environments \n • Experience across pensions payroll, including DB, DC and auto-enrolment \n • Ability to translate payroll complexity into clear reporting for Finance, HR and senior leadership \n • Experience with process improvement, payroll migrations or fixing fragile payroll operations \n • Familiarity with Workday, Oracle, SAP, Dayforce, ADP, Zellis or similar systems \n \n 🎁 Why this role \n • Stable, well-established organisation with a structured HR operating model \n • Real ownership of a meaningful part of the payroll cycle \n • Direct visibility to senior stakeholders \n • Opportunity to bring calm, controlled leadership into a business that values governance and payroll accuracy \n \n 📩 For a confidential conversation, please get in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.