Payroll Team Leader

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Payroll Team Leader to join a well-established and growing company. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong end-to-end payroll experience who enjoys leading a team, improving processes and ensuring the delivery of an accurate, compliant and efficient payroll service.

Working within a collaborative finance and HR function, you will take responsibility for overseeing the day-to-day running of the payroll department, supporting a small team while ensuring multiple payrolls are processed accurately and on time. You’ll provide expert payroll guidance, resolving complex queries and identifying opportunities to improve existing processes. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to further develop their leadership skills within a supportive business that genuinely values its employees and offers long-term career progression.

What We’re Looking For

• Previous experience leading or supervising a payroll team, with the ability to motivate colleagues, allocate workloads effectively and ensure payroll deadlines are consistently achieved.
• A positive and supportive leadership style, with a passion for coaching others, sharing knowledge and contributing to a collaborative team culture.
• A strong understanding of UK payroll legislation, including PAYE, National Insurance, pensions, statutory payments and HMRC requirements, with the confidence to apply this knowledge when resolving complex payroll queries.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate payroll discrepancies.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple payroll cycles, prioritise competing deadlines and maintain exceptional levels of accuracy within a fast-paced environment.

What You’ll Receive

• Excellent opportunities for career development, working within a business that actively supports professional growth.
• Flexitime and a healthy work-life balance, giving you greater flexibility around your working day while supporting your personal commitments.
• A comprehensive benefits package, including a company pension scheme, life assurance and access to a wide range of lifestyle benefits and discounts.
• The opportunity to lead a payroll function, giving you real ownership, autonomy and the chance to influence payroll processes and drive continuous improvement.
• Long-term stability with a successful and well-established organisation that invests in its people and recognises outstanding performance through a variety of employee reward and recognition schemes.

Summary

If you’re an experienced payroll professional looking for the next step in your career and would like to join a business where your expertise will be valued, your ideas encouraged and your development supported, we’d love to hear from you.