Senior Payroll Manager - Manchester/Newcastle/Leeds/Glasgow (1568076)

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The Opportunity

We are looking for driven and ambitious Payroll Delivery professionals who are keen to develop a challenging and stimulating career. As a Payroll Senior Manager, you will be responsible for delivering high-quality and timely payroll services to a portfolio of clients ranging in size and complexity. This is an exciting role in our fast-growing UK Payroll Operate team.

Payroll is a strategic growth driver for EY and therefore has senior leadership interest and support.

Your key responsibilities

• Ultimate responsibility for the end-to-end payroll process for a portfolio of clients ensuring that the payrolls are processed and submitted each pay period in a timely and accurate manner
• Undertaking in-depth reviews of the work carried out by the payroll team prior to client delivery
• Advising on any technical payroll matters arising, such as termination payments, payrolling of benefits, statutory payments
• Developing relationships with clients and providing a client-centric service to new and existing clients.
• Managing team workloads and allocations
• Counselling of staff including annual and in-year reviews
• Preparing client fee and budget details and ensuring the team comply with internal finance procedures
• Managing engagement financials and reporting on revenue and margin for client portfolio.
• Developing and improving payroll service delivery processes and procedures.
• Effectively identify, manage, resolve, and mitigate key risks and issues impacting the client delivery, and acting as a point of escalation.
• Understanding of and complying with Quality and Risk requirements for professional service firms
• Working with internal teams to ensure effective procedures are established for the setup of internal and external systems, tools, and processes as part of the client transition process

Skills and attributes for success

• Solid UK Payroll technical knowledge
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Demonstrable good project management and time management skills - balance multiple priorities by considering importance, level of urgency and other dependencies.
• Assertive and proactive approach to the delivery of client engagements
• Ability to network effectively within large organisations and build relationships with individuals and clients
• Ability to utilise research effectively and explain complex subjects in a clear manner
• Ability to build strong client relationships and commitment to delivering exceptional client service

To qualify for the role, you must have

• Over 8+ years' relevant hands-on experience in Payroll
• End-to-end Payroll knowledge and experience is a must within a high-volume payroll business (a bureau environment would be beneficial)
• Expertise in understanding payroll compliance, rules, and legislations in a multi-country environment and with up-to-date knowledge
• Thorough understanding of upstream and downstream processes that impact Payroll.
• Good IT skills including experience of working with Excel documents
• Experience of managing a team
• Payroll qualifications e.g., Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) preferred or relevant work experience

What we look for

• Flexibility and good team-working skills
• Strong in both written and verbal communications
• Highly organised with excellent customer service skills and comfortable in a client facing environment
• Strong IT skills and can adapt quickly to working with new technologies
• Proven capability to define, document and rollout procedures and processes across multiple departments and/or groups.
• Ability to work with internal/external customers globally and/or virtual basis
• Ability to support with the development of standard methodology, tools, and templates.

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we're using the finance products, expertise and systems we've developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

Join us in building a better working world.

Apply now.