This is a 12-15 month Fixed Term position within our Payroll department, based in Chiswick.

As Head of UK Payroll you will:

Lead on defining, developing and delivering payroll strategy to maximise cost effectiveness, aligned with business needs, comply with legal requirements, and to reflect current best practice

Responsible for the delivery of an accurate and timely UK payroll, including compliance with all legislative and statutory requirements

Manage, motivate and develop Payroll Advisors so ensure monthly payroll is delivered

Reconcile/audit employee benefits process

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

Oversee the processing of all UK payrolls.

Advising on complex payroll issues

Checking payroll data entry, by sample checking the monthly payroll reports and ad hoc audits

Ensure statutory payments are made on-time to HMRC including monthly PAYE and annual P11d and PSA payments, and that pension payments are made monthly.

Manage the relationship with HMRC and ensure the Company's compliance with statutory requirements.

Ensure the Resourcelink system is kept to the proper level of maintenance, ensuring all upgrades are properly tested prior to installation on the Live system.

Maintain relationships with suppliers (Zellis, Thomsons Online Benefits, Aegon Pension, Concur and others). Periodically review supplier performance and propose solutions where required.

Critically review and analyse KPIs as well as current payroll, benefits and tax procedures, in order to recommend and implement changes leading to best-practice operations. Ensure procedures are properly documented to ensure business continuity.

Reconcile benefits invoicing, ensure issues are resolved with suppliers, and reconcile benefits accounts quarterly.

Co-ordinate and audit Payroll execution of the annual salary review, annual bonus payments and benefits window renewal to maximise accuracy

Communicate actively with HR, Finance and other departments as required, to review cross-departmental impacts and reconcile data sharing.

Act as the Payroll Subject Matter Expert for the business. This includes ensuring that legislation knowledge is kept up to date and CPD is undertaken to accomplish this.

Manage payroll payments to ex-pats in liaison with Group HR, and in alignment with company policy and best practice.

About you:

Full operational end-to-end UK Payroll experience

Management of payroll team in a multi-site environment

A good understanding of accounting processes particularly balance sheet reconciliations

Able to participate in and lead working groups to resolve process and legislative compliance issues

Ability to demonstrate strong leadership, influencing, facilitation & stakeholder management skills across all levels of management.

Up to date knowledge and understanding of payroll legislation

Our Excellence Behaviours: Client-centric, Agile, Collaborative. These three behaviours represent how we do things at BSI. They help us ensure that BSI is a great place to work and a highly successful business.

To protect our candidates and BSI employees during the Covid-19 outbreak, all interviews will take place remotely.