Our client is a family-owned retailer with over 180 stores in the UK and rapidly growing ecommerce and International franchise ; They are a service centric brand and an employer of choice, recognised as a Sunday Times Top 100 Best Companies to work for in the UK who care about their people, customers and the communities in which they ; They are now looking for a Payroll & Benefits Manager to join their head office team based in ; As Payroll & Benefits Manager you will be part of our People team managing a team of five payroll specialists. You will be fully responsible for a busy group payroll department servicing over 1700 permanent employees and up to an additional 1000 temporary store employees at peak. This involves delivery of both UK store and Head Office payrolls and several smaller overseas payrolls. This role is to cover a period of maternity leave on a 12month MAT cover contract. Responsibilities - Payroll & Benefits Manager - Manage the team ensuring that payrolls are accurate, transmitted on time and compliant with all current territory legislation. - Administration of employee benefits including renewals and 3rd party account management. - Managing & supporting the payroll team to deliver hourly and salaried payrolls and all statutory processes including year-end. - Managing Company & Group benefits including renewals and liaising with 3rd party providers including, Holiday, Company sick pay, Payroll Giving, Auto- enrolment Pension Scheme, Life Cover, Private Health Insurance, salary sacrifice schemes and PAYE Payrolling Benefits such as company cars - Managing HR Administration team including contracts & Offer Letters and Right to Work - Providing reports and payroll data to the wider business, 3rd parties and board Required Skills - Payroll & Benefits Manager - A minimum of 5 years payroll experience with at least two years managing a payroll team and delivering multiple payrolls - CIPP qualification is preferred but not essential - Excellent knowledge of payroll procedures and current payroll legislation. - Previous experience in managing employee benefits include Benefit in KIND and Payrolling Benefits - Tech Savvy- excellent excel skills and an ability to analyse, manipulate and interrogate numerical information V look ups/macros. - Knowledge of RLA (Northgate) system or similar web hosted Payroll and HRIS is essential. - Experience of report writing within SAP or similar systems would be helpful As Payroll & Benefits Manager You will be an experienced professional with experience of managing a busy payroll from start to finish. You will need to be well organised, accurate and able to deliver results under pressure and to tight deadlines. This brand moves at pace so you will also need to be energetic and embrace change with a diplomatic and decisive can-do ; As Payroll & Benefits Manager you will also be a great team leader who can effectively plan the team's workload and manage all the detail that is so important in payroll. The Payroll & Benefits Manager role offers a competitive salary with profit bonus and additional benefits such as life cover and ; It also offers the chance to work in an amazing culture and environment where you will be challenged and can add immediate value. Apply now to be considered for the Payroll & Benefits Manager role and to be part of our clients on-going success ;