Job reference: 15627_1741943437

Payroll Specialist

Payroll Specialist

Uxbridge - Hybrid

About the role:

Supporting all payroll functions, ensuring staff are paid accurately and on time each pay period. Specialising in the operational aspects of the payroll department to achieve the highest levels of compliance and minimise exposure and risk to Manpower. Providing support to the Payroll Team Leader and Managers with the day-to-day operations of payroll. Contributing to the training and development of all team members, including cross-training oneself and others across all payroll functions to ensure a well-balanced team skill set. In addition to taking responsibility for an aligned business line or payroll area, collaborating with colleagues as a sub-team to ensure departmental goals and targets are met. Assisting in keeping processes and procedures up to date, capturing and implementing any specific business line issues or practices. Ensuring our customers have a positive experience with ManpowerGroup Payroll.

Why Join Us?

At ManpowerGroup we're a global leader in workforce solutions, empowering our people every day to discover their personal best. Our services enable our clients to win in the changing world of work and we connect more than 600,000 people every day to meaningful work across a wide range of skills and industries helping to power the success of clients around the world.

Key Responsibilities:

To perform tasks allocated from the activities of the team as a whole, this includes:

  • Assisting with the day-to-day operational aspects of Payroll functions
  • Assist in the timely administration of overpayment process and YTD manual adjustments/net pay amendments
  • Completion of manual calculations
  • Tax Year End tasks
  • Assist with the maintenance of various Pension schemes
  • Responsibility for ensuring timely completion of nominal ledger reconciliations, statutory and authorised returns to relevant bodies, in particular, the payment of all payroll disbursements
  • Completion of National Statistics Surveys
  • Assist with any payroll and system related issues including system testing
  • Support with the transition of any TUPE transfers to ensure that they are effectively transferred and that there are no payroll issues
  • Validate, audit and update payroll processes to ensure compliance and the meeting of the organisation's statutory and contractual obligations to its employees, government departments and stakeholders
  • System management- such as rolling over all annual entitlements such as sick and holiday accordingly.
  • Responsible for the processing of ad-hoc payments/advances such as Chaps/Faster Payments and entry of missing
  • P11d reconciliations and resolution of queries and submission to HMRC.
  • Receive , record, and respond to HMRC relating to RTI, EDI, TAX , NI etc
  • Contribute to maintaining an accurate employee database
  • Maintain and develop effective relationships with internal/external bodies such as HMRC/Pension Regulators.
  • Assist the team to be compliant with Data Protection at all times
  • To assist with project work
  • Achieve deadlines, monitor progress, and removes barriers where possible, to ensure that work is completed on time.
  • Proactively improving the quality of payroll through identification and resolution of issues and the continuous improvement of payroll processes, to minimise exposure and risk to the department
  • Ensure that all work is conducted in accordance with Manpower's values and standards
  • Other tasks associated with the effective running of all payroll operations

Principal Competencies:

Creates Winning Relationships

  • Interact professionally with internal and external customers
  • Maintain relationships at the relevant level with internal and external customers in the Group
  • Communicate relationship details to the Team Leader/Payroll Manager and escalate issues accordingly
  • Promote the Department on a regular basis in internal, and external meetings
  • Communicate the payroll process to internal and external customers

Achievement Orientation

  • Assist with the maintenance of Payroll Files on all employees of Manpower Group
  • Responsible for reconciliation/s according to payroll guidelines
  • Ensure payroll is completed, accurately and on time to ensure all Manpower Group employees receive their pay by due date
  • Ensure input received is of sufficient quality to pay employees effectively. Where input is of insufficient quality, work with providers to ensure effective improvements

Personal Effectiveness

  • Assist with the resolution of all queries and raise relevant documentation.
  • Process all payroll documentation accordance with the payroll procedures and a set deadline to ensure delivery is achieved.
  • Provide support to the payroll team and continue to provide a professional service in colleagues' absence.

Resilience

  • Display a flexible approach to change.
  • Maintain effective work behaviour whilst under pressure and during setbacks.
  • Demonstrate an ability to deal with confrontational situations.

Impact and Influence

  • Lead by example and inspire confidence.
  • Demonstrate the ability to influence, persuade and motivate others.
  • Demonstrate an adaptable style or approach in accordance with the situation or persons involved.

Continuous Improvement

  • Receive and provide cross training to all group members.
  • Implement agreed process changes in accordance with Manpower Group Guidelines.

Innovation

  • Contribute to regular reviews of the activities of the payroll function to ensure efficient workflow and best practices are maintained, making recommendations for change, and implementing these once agreed.

Professionalism

  • Ensure compliance with the HRMC and other legislative requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with the Manpower accounting policies.
  • Implement and maintain a control framework in line with the US requirements as required by the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation.

Qualifications and Skills:

  • A team player
  • Enthusiastic with a 'can do' positive attitude.
  • Able to influence and persuade and support team members
  • Showing customer service orientation, enthusiastic and proactive qualities.
  • Good interpersonal and organisational skills
  • A methodical approach with an emphasis on accuracy and attention to detail
  • Proven Supervisory skills
  • Excellent Written and oral communication skills.
  • Excellent IT skills. (Microsoft Office)
  • Good analytical skills
  • Good problem-solving skills
  • Thorough knowledge of Payroll legislation desirable but not essential

What you'll receive:

  • Competitive Pay: Base salary with opportunity of an annual company performance-based bonus.
  • Holidays: 24 days' annual leave (up to 27 days with service) plus your birthday off, with the option to purchase up to five additional days.
  • Pension: Competitive plan with contributions that grow with your length of service.
  • Health & Wellbeing: Flexible benefits fund offering private medical insurance, dental, gym memberships, health screenings, and more.
  • Family-Friendly Entitlements: Generous policies, including an employee assistance programme.
  • Additional Perks: Monthly early finish Fridays, discounted share purchase opportunities, annual volunteering programme and awards, gym membership discounts, and retail shopping discounts through Tastecard and ManpowerGroup Rewards.

About us:

ManpowerGroup is where our collective strength lies. We support the business and our family of brands with a connected and collaborative network of support functions. Whether it's compliance, finance, HR, IT, legal, marketing or talent - we work together as one integrated team to identify and address the company's needs. We are proud to have been voted one of the world's most ethical companies for 15 years in a row. This reflects our commitment to integrity, transparency, and ethical business practices.

We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community-a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified or experienced people regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, or disability. ManpowerGroup is a Disability Confident Employer and we're happy to talk about flexible working.

We can only consider candidates who reside in the United Kingdom and hold full right to work.

We get people and together we'll shape our future. Apply now.

About ManpowerGroup

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As the world’s workforce expert, ManpowerGroup connects more than 600,000 jobseekers with meaningful work every day, and helps more than 400,000 clients address their critical talent needs each year.

Through our comprehensive family of brands – ManpowerGroup Solutions, Experis, Manpower, Right Management and Brook Street – we deliver innovative workforce solutions to resource, manage and develop talent. By combining global presence and local expertise, we influence how people and companies work now and how they will work in the future. It’s about creating progress, by knowing what’s happening now and what will happen next in the world of work – and sharing it to benefit all.