Payroll Operations Manager (18 MTH FTC)

The role

Are you a dynamic leader with a passion for payroll operations? Southwark Council is looking for an experienced Payroll Operations Manager to cover maternity leave for up to 18 months. This is your chance to lead, inspire, and make an impact within a fast-paced, professional payroll team!

In this role, you’ll be an integral part of ensuring our payroll processes run smoothly and efficiently, managing a team of Payroll Officers who handle payroll transactions with precision, ensuring the seamless collection and validation of data. Your expertise will help resolve a wide range of payroll-related issues for managers, staff, pensioners, and external third parties.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take the reins and manage a dedicated payroll team, ensuring high-quality, efficient service.
  Lead, inspire, and develop your team to deliver a pro-active, fast-paced payroll service that adds value.
• Ensure accurate and timely monthly payroll processes, including reconciliations, finance postings, and full payment submissions (FPS).
• Provide high-quality responses to queries from employees, managers, and stakeholders, enhancing customer satisfaction.
  Be a crucial part of the team driving the deployment of the Council’s new payroll/HR and finance system.
• Ensure accurate data collection and validation for staff, pensioners, and other payrolls including generating payslips, P45s, and P60s.

How will you make an impact as our Payroll Operations Manager?

• Payroll operations experience in HR or Payroll teams.
• Strong knowledge of PAYE Tax, National Insurance, and Pension rules.
• Proven team leadership and development skills.
• Experience collaborating with managers, employees, and stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Local Government pay and conditions (a plus).
• Excellent customer relations and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong communication skills for handling queries.
• Ability to guide and support payroll system users.
• Confident managing complex payroll tasks, ensuring compliance.
• This role offers flexible home working blended with travel into our London Bridge HQ.

About Southwark Council

Southwark Council is the largest local authority social landlord in London, managing 55,000 homes lived in by 40% of Southwark’s residents. We are home to over 18,300 businesses including iconic London venues such as The Shard, The Tate Modern and Borough Market along with many social enterprises and we have a young, diverse, and growing population.

At Southwark we are committed to making our borough just and fair and are taking positive action to tackle inequalities. Our residents and communities are our greatest asset and the passion we have for Southwark is shared by millions of Londoners who enjoy our outstanding cultural offer, use our hospitals and attend our universities.

Our refreshed borough plan and focus on Southwark Stands Together, (which is our work with Southwark’s communities and the council’s staff to tackle racism, injustice and inequality) underpins all that we do.

Salary Range: £44,430 - £51,663

Benefits and more information:

https://jobs.southwark.gov.uk/why-us/

Recruitment timetable:

Application Closing Date: 11.59pm on the 13th of January 2025

Interview Date: W/C 20th of January 2025

We are an organisation who is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at senior management level in the Council.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme:

As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role, and identify with one of the below criteria:

• Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
• Are currently in care or have previously been in care.
• If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, in which case we will move the key dates for the process. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.