Payroll & Pensions Manager

A Payroll & Pensions Manager is urgently being recruited for a client based in Northampton. This is a hybrid role with 2 days in the office and 3 days working from home.

• Leading a team which is strategically responsible for managing payroll and pensions undertakings, ensuring that the payroll department or organisation is always on the right side of legislation, best practice and statutory reporting
• Leading the payroll team to ensure that all payrolls are transacted accurately
• Ensuring that the company meets all of its required payments, in good time, to recognised pension schemes and to HMRC for tax and Employer’s National Insurance
• Accountable for ensuring all of its required statutory pay / pensions returns as well as gender and other pay gap reporting
• Responsible for ensuring that the company remains up to date with statutory and best practice on all matters related to payroll and pensions
• Exploring and making strategic recommendations on how they might improve its formal and ad-hoc employee recognition schemes
• Leading a team which provides a first‑class and timely service.
• Continuing to invest in self‑development so as to always be abreast of emerging Payroll trends as espoused by the CIPP and other bodies, and by other additional means, and so that self‑capabilities continue to grow

The post holder will be expected to undertake other responsibilities and tasks as reasonably requested by the Director of Human Resources