At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead payroll, benefits, and pensions to ensure accurate and timely colleague payments.
- Company: Join Mamas & Papas, a beloved brand with over 45 years of experience.
- Benefits: Enjoy 33 days holiday, company bonuses, and significant staff discounts.
- Other info: Hybrid working model with a vibrant office culture and great team spirit.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on colleague experiences in a supportive environment.
- Qualifications: Strong payroll management experience and excellent attention to detail required.
The predicted salary is between 37800 - 46200 £ per year.
Overview
For over 45 years, Mamas & Papas has supported parents from our Huddersfield roots to stores and concessions across the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Today, 1,200+ colleagues bring our much-loved baby brand to life, including 300+ at our Huddersfield head office.
As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a detail-driven
Payroll & Benefits Manager to lead payroll, benefits, pensions and employment tax compliance, creating an accurate, reassuring colleague experience.
What you’ll be doing
You’ll own the end-to-end payroll, benefits and pensions cycle, ensuring colleagues are paid accurately, on time and compliantly.
- Lead payroll operations, provider management, controls, reconciliations, reporting and audit readiness.
- Manage PAYE, NI, statutory payments, PSA, P11D, benefits taxation and HMRC submissions.
- Oversee pensions, auto-enrolment, salary exchange, deductions and provider submissions.
- Manage core benefits including medical, life assurance, pension, EV, cycle to work and wellbeing schemes.
- Support confidential colleague queries while improving payroll, benefits and pension processes.
- What you’ll bring as Pay & Benefits Manager
- Strong payroll management experience, ideally in a fast-paced, multi-site or retail business.
- Excellent UK payroll, PAYE, pensions, PSA, P11D and employment tax knowledge.
- Advanced Excel, strong analysis skills and confidence using payroll and HR systems.
- Clear communication, stakeholder management and excellent attention to detail.
- Experience of the People XD system (and HRIS system part of Access Group) being more than desirable.
Why join Mamas & Papas?
We’re an award-winning, much-loved brand where quality, care and customer experience sit at the heart of everything we do.
If you combine technical payroll expertise with care, curiosity and a passion for great colleague experience, we’d love to hear from you.
NOTE: This role is based at our Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Head Office (HD5 0RH) 3 days a week, with 2 days from home.
- We're a business that cares. Here's just some of our benefits on offer;
- 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
- Buy & Sell holiday schemes
- Company Bonus Schemes
- Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
- Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online
- Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations, from holidays, travel, restaurants, gifts & services to many more worthy discounts through our Benefits Hub
- Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances
- Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave)
- Supportive Foster Care & Carers Leave offering
- Support for Loss and Bereavement
- A Menopause Friendly Employer
- Employee Recognition and Appreciation Schemes
- At Mamas & Papas, we’re a business for the future.
Every day, we help to welcome a new generation of children into the world, and we want them to grow up in a world that’s sustainable – one that’s full of opportunity and hope.
…Oh, and a great bunch of people to work with too.
- We also operate at Head Office
- Hybrid flexi office working with 2 days working from home
- Flexi-time schemes based around core working hours whether in the office, or working from home
- Plus, free car parking, Prayer & Contemplation room, subsidised canteen, free tea & coffee, Games & TV rooms & much more.
- (NB*: All benefits subject to individual schemes criteria & terms)
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Payroll and Benefits Manager in Huddersfield employer: Mamas & Papas
Mamas & Papas is an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture where team members are encouraged to bring their enthusiasm and smiles to the forefront. Located in the heart of Colney Fields Shopping Park, employees benefit from flexible working hours, opportunities for personal growth, and the chance to make a meaningful impact on families' lives by providing expert advice on baby and parenting products.
