Payroll Manager in Newton

Payroll Manager – Multi-site workforce

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Location: Home based with occasional UK wide travel

Contract: Part-time

Salary: £45-52,000 + benefits (pro-rat'd 4 days/week)

HPR are delighted to be working with a fast-growing and dynamic business that is growing at an extraordinary rate, this growth is through both organic growth and acquisitions.

With rapid growth comes challenges, with challenges comes opportunities, and with opportunities comes reward.

With employees based across the country is role is fully remote, requiring the need to occasionally travel to company sites the vast majority of the working hours are home based.

The opportunity

The Payroll Manager will take end-to-end ownership of the payroll operation, ensuring colleagues are paid accurately, securely and on time while maintaining rigorous statutory compliance, financial control and data integrity. With a mixture of monthly and weekly paid employees, along with interim and permanent colleagues.

This is a hands-on management role in a national, operationally complex business. The Payroll Manager will control the full payroll cycle, manage payroll inputs and validation, work closely with HR and Finance, resolve employee and manager queries, maintain strong audit trails and ensure Moorepay is used effectively as the core payroll platform.

The role requires someone who combines deep UK payroll knowledge with strong systems capability and disciplined operational execution. The workforce is geographically spread and may include multiple pay groups, variable hours, overtime, allowances, expenses and other operational pay inputs; accuracy, cut-off discipline and robust controls are therefore critical.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Own the complete payroll cycle from data collection and input through validation, approval, payment and post-payroll reconciliation.
• Establish and manage a clear payroll calendar, cut-off timetable and control framework, ensuring all stakeholders understand deadlines and responsibilities.
• Process and validate starters, leavers, contractual changes, salary changes, overtime, bonuses, allowances, deductions, absence-related pay and other variable payroll inputs. xgikmsk
• Ensure tax codes, National Insurance, student loans, attachment orders, statutory payments and other deductions are applied correctly.
• Review payroll outputs in detail before approval, investigating anoma...