Payroll Manager

Role: Payroll Manager (Maternity Cover, 12-month FTC)

Location: Leeds (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum dependent on experience

To support our Payroll team through a period of Maternity leave, we are seeking a Payroll Manager on a 12-month fixed-term basis. As Payroll Manager, you will lead our dynamic Payroll team to ensure payroll is processed accurately and to appropriate deadlines, whilst conducting various other payroll-related duties, including reporting, workload distribution, and managing enquiries. You will be a natural leader with the ability to manage the rest of the team to succession, whilst forming excellent relationships with the wider finance team to support them when required.

Key Responsibilities

• Accurately prepare and process monthly payrolls to appropriate deadlines.
• Manage and process calculations for amendments, adjustments, deductions, holiday pay, and statutory payments.
• Payroll-related administration, including processing new starters/leavers, benefits, P11Ds, Statutory Leave and pay including SSP, SMP, and SPP.
• Being a point of contact for employees for all payroll-related queries and issues.
• Managing Pension administration to ensure compliance is adhered to.
• Conducting year-end routines including P60s and P11Ds.
• Integrating acquired businesses and ensuring that TUPE has been considered.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Demonstrable experience within an end-to-end Payroll management role (essential).
• A strong understanding of payroll regulations, tax, and PAYE.
• An understanding of pension processing (desirable).
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to meet deadlines.

Please refer to our job description to review the responsibilities and person specifications in more detail.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Benefits

• 30 days holiday plus public holidays
• Wellbeing day
• Birthday holiday
• Volunteering day
• Private medical insurance, 24/7 digital GP and health advice
• Employee assistance programme providing support for your mental and physical health
• Group pension scheme
• Life assurance scheme
• Eyecare vouchers
• Family leave
• Referral scheme

About Progeny

We create, enhance, and preserve wealth.

We are the first and only firm in the UK to bring together independent financial planning, asset management, tax, HR, and private and corporate legal services.

We are forward-thinking and tech-driven, using technology to eliminate paperwork, improve communications, and enrich the relationship between client and adviser.

At Progeny, we believe that we all have the power to make good things happen. We want to use our success as a catalyst for making real change. We created the Progeny Foundation to support local charities including Zarach and we have recently achieved the globally recognised B-Corp certification.

In 2023, we continued to onboard new team members, resulting in an overall growth of 17%. We are the proud winners of the Yorkshire Financial Awards 2024 Best Employer award for the third year running