The Role
Manage end-to-end UK payrolls for a portfolio of clients, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely processing. Responsibilities include payroll checks and reconciliations, discrepancy resolution, client governance meetings, performance reporting, payroll documentation, calendars, query resolution, and continuous process improvement. The role requires strong UK payroll legislation knowledge, numerical ability, attention to detail, customer service skills, organization, and proficiency with payroll systems and Microsoft Excel.
Summary Generated by Built In
Our payroll operations are the at the heart of our business, managing a portfolio of customers managing the delivery of end-to-end UK payrolls, ensuring that the service is consistently delivered accurately and on time while providing a best-in-class customer experience. Managing your own portfolio of customers, you'll act as a trusted partner and expert, supporting them to make sure they deliver for their people.
We have an office base in Edinburgh city centre and have adopted hybrid working of 2 days per week in the office and 3 working from home. We're happy to discuss how that might look for you as part of the hiring process.
We have an office base in Edinburgh city centre and have adopted hybrid working of 2 days per week in the office and 3 working from home. We're happy to discuss how that might look for you as part of the hiring process.
On a typical day, you'll...
- Act as the primary point of contact for a diverse portfolio of payroll clients, providing a consistently high standard of service and building strong, trusted client relationships.
- Process end-to-end UK payrolls across a range of client sizes and levels of pay and payroll complexity, ensuring accuracy and compliance at every stage.
- Carry out thorough payroll checks and reconciliations, identifying and investigating discrepancies and ensuring any issues are resolved before payroll is finalised.
- Lead and chair regular client governance meetings to monitor progress, review performance, address issues and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Prepare accurate and insightful monthly governance reports, highlighting key performance measures, issues, trends and actions.
- Maintain and regularly review payroll manuals, ensuring they remain accurate, relevant and aligned with current processes and client requirements.
- Prepare and maintain payroll calendars and checklists, ensuring all key deadlines, processes and controls are clearly documented and checking sheets are completed for every payroll.
- Respond to payroll queries from clients, partners and colleagues, investigating issues and providing timely resolutions wherever possible, while appropriately escalating more complex matters through the relevant internal channels.
Does this sound like you?
- Previous experience in a payroll bureau, accountancy practice or similar client-facing environment, ideally with responsibility for managing payrolls for multiple clients and providing a high standard of service and support.
- Proven experience processing UK payroll, with a good working knowledge of UK payroll legislation and processes, including PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments, workplace pensions, payroll deductions, starters and leavers, payroll reconciliations and HMRC reporting requirements.
- A strong aptitude for numbers, with excellent numerical and analytical skills and ideally experience gained within a payroll, finance or accountancy environment.
- A genuine commitment to delivering an exceptional standard of customer service, with a proactive and professional approach to understanding and meeting client needs and a willingness to go the extra mile
- Excellent attention to detail, with the ability to identify discrepancies, recognise when something does not look right and take ownership of issues through to resolution.
Strong IT and systems skills, with confidence using payroll software, databases and Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel, and the ability to learn and adapt to new systems quickly - Highly organised, proactive and action-oriented, with the ability to manage competing priorities, work effectively under pressure and take ownership of tasks through to completion
- A continuous improvement mindset, with the confidence to identify opportunities to improve processes, systems and ways of working for the benefit of both clients and colleagues
- CIPP qualification or working towards a relevant payroll qualification would be advantageous
About
Our Story From our entrepreneurial origins as a founder led start up, to a high performing global player working with some of the world's most recognisable brands, activpayroll has both a fantastic history and masses of future potential. Our story began in 2001, when our founder saw a gap in the market to support the oil and gas industry. Today, we are a leading global professional service organisation, providing integrated global and domestic payroll solutions, expatriate taxation services, global HR services and online HR people management tools to over 1,200 companies in more than 150 countries worldwide. We’ve Got YouHiring people is more than an investment of time and money – it’s an investment of trust. You trust us to help you realise your fullest potential, work with brilliant people and recognise your achievements. In return, we trust your abilities, we trust your instincts and are fully behind you to deliver the great work you are capable of - empowering you to make the tough calls and valuing your opinions, ideas and abilities.
Skills Required
- Previous experience in a payroll bureau, accountancy practice, or similar client-facing environment
- Experience managing payrolls for multiple clients
- Experience processing UK payroll
- Knowledge of UK payroll legislation and processes, including PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments, workplace pensions, payroll deductions, starters and leavers, payroll reconciliations, and HMRC reporting
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Experience in a payroll, finance, or accountancy environment
- Excellent customer service and client relationship skills
- Excellent attention to detail and discrepancy-resolution ability
- Strong IT and systems skills, including payroll software, databases, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Excel
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure
- Continuous improvement mindset
- CIPP qualification or progress toward a relevant payroll qualification
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The Company
What We Do
Created to let your business work seamlessly in multiple countries by giving you complete clarity and confidence, activpayroll is global payroll, international payments, global mobility and HR in one. Pay your people compliantly, on time, every time, worldwide. Take control with accessible tech. Team up with global tax specialists to stay one step ahead of legislation and compliance. Strengthen your workforce with our strategic HR specialists, and work with a partner that gets your vision of global clarity. Wherever in the world your business takes you, we’ve got you.
