Payroll & Pension Manager

Location: Hybrid - Billericay

Salary: Competitive

Contract Type: Permanent

Working Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday

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What you’ll do:

We're on the lookout for a Payroll & Benefits Manager to lead the delivery of accurate, compliant, and timely payroll services across Ground Control in the UK and Ireland – supporting around 1,000 employees.

You'll head up a small but mighty team of three Payroll Administrators, managing processes, driving integration across systems (Bob HR, Bob Payroll, Sage, D365 Finance), and delivering key payroll projects.

Key Responsibilities:

Payroll Operations & Compliance

• Oversee the end-to-end payroll processing for the UK and Ireland, ensuring full compliance with legislation and internal policies.
• Lead on financial reconciliation, statutory returns and year-end processes.
• Ensure proper application of tax laws, pay regulations and company agreements.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Manage and develop a team of four payroll administrators.
• Provide coaching and support to ensure service excellence and ongoing learning.

Systems & Reporting

• Maintain and enhance payroll system integrations with Bob HR and D365 Finance.
• Identify, plan and implement process improvements, increasing accuracy and efficiency.
• Generate payroll reports for Finance and HR.

Benefits & Pensions Administration

• Oversee changes to employee benefits, ensuring accurate deductions and charges.
• Work with HR to support benefits strategy, regularly reviewing schemes for best value.
• Manage multiple types of pension schemes (including auto-enrolment and group pensions).

What we’re looking for:

• Experience of managing a UK payroll.
• Hands-on experience with payroll systems – Bob Payroll (Pento) and Sage preferred.
• Strong understanding of payroll compliance, pensions and statutory reporting.
• Skilled in analysing data, creating reports and supporting financial reconciliation.
• Track record of leading people and building capability in a payroll team.
• Knowledge of managing an Irish payroll.