Payroll & Benefits Manager
UK Visa Sponsorship Analytics
Occupation Type
Book-keepers, payroll managers and wages clerks
Occupation Code Skill LevelMedium Skilled
Sponsorship Salary Threshold
£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
Standard minimum applies
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Description
The Role
We are looking for a proactive, detail-oriented and quality-driven Payroll & Benefits Manager to establish, process and maintain our payroll and benefits operations across multiple countries.
Reporting directly to the Head of HR Operations, the successful individual will be responsible for delivering efficient and accurate payroll solutions in-house and through third party vendors, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and compliance with relevant regulations. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Finance, IT and wider HR team to optimise processes, enhance controls and resolve issues with a strong root-cause approach.
The successful candidate will play a key role in sourcing and managing market competitive and compelling employee benefits plans/solutions, ensuring they remain cost-effective, compliant and aligned with the business needs. This includes, providing expert advice, managing vendors and ensuring seamless administration for colleagues.
Key Responsibilities
We are looking for a proactive, detail-oriented and quality-driven Payroll & Benefits Manager to establish, process and maintain our payroll and benefits operations across multiple countries.
Reporting directly to the Head of HR Operations, the successful individual will be responsible for delivering efficient and accurate payroll solutions in-house and through third party vendors, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and compliance with relevant regulations. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Finance, IT and wider HR team to optimise processes, enhance controls and resolve issues with a strong root-cause approach.
The successful candidate will play a key role in sourcing and managing market competitive and compelling employee benefits plans/solutions, ensuring they remain cost-effective, compliant and aligned with the business needs. This includes, providing expert advice, managing vendors and ensuring seamless administration for colleagues.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee end‑to‑end payroll processing across multiple countries, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely delivery.
- Proven expertise in managing payroll and benefits is essential, ideally across multiple countries.
- Familiarity of payroll software, including configuration, workflows and business rules.
- Strong understanding of payroll processes, tax regulations and compliance requirements.
- Familiarity in Workday configuration tools, such as pay policies, pay codes, and earnings/deductions setup.
- Experience in implementing and supporting Workday payroll solutions, including end-to-end project lifecycle.
- Ability to interpret complex payroll requirements and design effective system and process solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Strong knowledge of compensation and benefits practices: This includes flexible benefits, pensions, health benefits, bonuses, and other benefits.
We combine specialist broking with analytics, modeling and research to help insurers optimize risk transfer, strengthen balance sheets and achieve sustainable growth. Our approach is relationship-driven, transparent and outcome-focused.
At the heart of Willis Re is a focus on delivering the most cutting-edge analytical solutions to enable more informed, better decision-making for risk selection, portfolio optimization, and capital management.
The launch of Willis Re brings a strategic advantage of being unhindered by legacy, an ability to leverage data, statistical models and advanced technologies with the best knowledge and expertise to deliver more efficient and effective reinsurance outcomes. This places Willis Re in a unique position to build a truly analytically driven business, focused on creating solutions for the reinsurance industry that are future led and forward thinking.
Willis Re will also leverage recognized technical expertise from WTW’s Insurance Consulting & Technology business includ
ing their advanced modeling and analytical capabilities. Alongside this will be WTW’s Research Network, an award-winning business supporting and influencing science to improve the understanding and quantification of risk.