Group Payroll Manager

Reference Number: JR250101

Location: Hybrid working – home and our office based near London Bridge

Working Pattern: Full Time, 37.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Number of roles: 1

Salary: £65,000 – £70,000 per annum

We are looking for a Group Payroll Manager to join our team.

As our first ever Group Payroll Manager, you’ll bring our two UK payroll teams under shared leadership for the first time. You’ll be more hands-on for the Kaplan International side, where you’re replacing an outgoing Payroll Manager, and less so for the Kaplan Professional UK side where we have a long serving Payroll Manager in place. As well as making sure everybody continues to be paid correctly and on-time every month, you’ll create a cohesive payroll team that learns from each other’s best practices. A key focus will be developing, improving and operating controls and leading projects such as process improvements as well as the on-boarding of additional Kaplan operations in the UK and beyond onto our payroll system and/or processes and controls.

In this role, you will:

• Combine two teams of two into one team of four.
• Oversee a payroll operation that is responsible for around 3000-3500 payslips every month in the UK.
• Play a key role in managing Kaplan's relationship with ADP.
• Manage one or more of our payroll’s personally, helping to share the workload around the team.
• Oversee smaller international payrolls in Ireland, UAE, Saudi Arabia and Portugal, working with external partners as required.

This is an excellent opportunity for an exceptional Payroll Manager who is confident managing multi country payrolls and who is looking to expand to build their career with an industry leader.

What you’ll bring to the role

You’ll be an experienced payroll professional with a proven track record of effective payroll management across multiple payrolls, and delivery of successful projects/improvements.

Specific experience and skills will include:

• ADP iHCM payroll system (desirable)
• Workday HR system (desirable)
• Onboarding new businesses to a group payroll
• Accounting skills e.g., reconciliations and GL function within payroll system (desirable)
• Experience of automating data input/uploading data
• Strong numeracy skills and technology skills
• Excellent knowledge of HMRC rules and guidelines
• International payrolls
• Relevant payroll qualification (desirable)
• Experience of working in a SOx environment (desirable)

What we do

Kaplan International, a division of Kaplan Inc., is a leading for-profit company in the field of international education, which offers Higher education programmes for students in the UK, USA, Australia, Singapore and Hong Kong, English language courses across locations in UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and vocational training for financial services sector in Australia. We welcome students from more than 100 countries around the world. Kaplan Inc. is owned by Graham Holdings (NYSE: GHC)

What we offer

As well as a competitive salary, hybrid/home working where possible, and paths for career progression, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 28 days annual leave*
• Big discounts on Kaplan courses for you and your family
• 24/7 confidential helpline providing counselling and other support services
• Company pension contributions
• Maternity, Adoption, Shared Parental and Paternity/Partner pay which is well above statutory levels
• Medicash Health Cash Plan

*Please note that the annual leave entitlement will be calculated on a pro rata basis if the role is part time.

How to apply

Please apply with CV and cover letter no later than 11pm on 28th September 2025. Note, we recommend that you apply at the earliest as we reserve the right to close the role before the closing date if we have gathered a suitable shortlist.