Senior Manager - Payroll and Management Accounts

Senior Manager - Payroll and Management Accounts Full or Part time – HYBRID offered Our client is a well respected Practice which are fast growing and well established. Completely independent they offer a great career path and unlimited career opportunities. If you are ACCA or ACA qualified, you have delivered payrolls in practice, and you would rather interrogate a payroll than produce one, this is the ideal role for you.

Our client offers fully flexible hybrid working arrangements for all our team. The role can be full-time or part-time. ABOUT

THE ROLE This is a review and advisory role. It is not a processing role Our client are automating their monthly payroll compliance process end to end using AI-enabled payroll software, with a first-pass review carried out by our own AI tooling before anything reaches a person. What arrives on your desk is therefore already prepared and already checked once. Your job is the judgement layer above that: is this right, and is it the right thing to be doing at all?

The payroll clients are mostly overseas businesses employing people in the UK, and UK subsidiaries and branches of overseas groups. Alongside standard UK payrolls run direct payment schemes, shadow payrolls, modified payrolls and short-term business visitor arrangements, so the technical range is wide. This is a hybrid role, split between the payroll department and our accounts and management accounting team.

The two halves reinforce each other: the payroll feeds the management accounts, and someone who understands both catches what someone who understands only one will miss. The review layer
• Reviewing the prepared payroll before anything is released to a client or to HM Revenue & Customs, and reviewing to a documented standard, against the work papers, every time
• Owning the monthly and annual compliance calendar, and the accuracy and timeliness of every submission
• Real Time Information (RTI) reporting, year-end reporting, P11D and P11D(b) returns, PAYE Settlement Agreements (PSAs) and Employment Related Securities (ERS) returns
• Reconciling PAYE accounts with HM Revenue & Customs and resolving allocation and charge disputes
• Auto-enrolment and workplace pension duties: assessment, re-enrolment, declarations of compliance and salary exchange arrangements, including recognising when a client has a duty it has not yet met
• Managing the payroll team's capacity, workload and deadlines, and setting the standard they work to
• Managing fees, work in progress, recoverability and billing, and managing scope creep The advisory layer (the reason the role exists) Every payroll run raises questions. We want someone who sees them, understands them, and raises them. For example:
• Expenses reimbursed: is anything in there not deductible, classified inaccurately for the bookkeeping and VAT, or in fact taxable pay?
• Travel and subsistence: is this a temporary or a permanent workplace, does detached duty relief apply, and has the position changed?
• Items that are taxable but better handled through a PAYE Settlement Agreement, for example private mobile telephones used for business
• Employees crossing the £100,000 threshold, the effect on the personal allowance and on entitlement to childcare support, and what the employee can do about it
• Employees crossing the High Income Child Benefit Charge threshold
• Net pay that has moved unexpectedly, and why
• Tax code changes: what the code actually means, and whether it is accurate
• Pecuniary liabilities, and how they are treated in the payroll
• National Minimum Wage risk, including where a deduction or salary exchange takes pay below the rate
• Termination payments, post-employment notice pay and settlement agreements
• Employment status and…