Payroll Manager

We are currently working with an elite US law firm who wish to hire a Payroll Manager to join their busy Payroll team to support their London and European offices of over 500 staff. They are keen to hire an interim Payroll Manager on a minimum 12-month FTC full-time basis.

• Salary of circa £80,000 prorata and a range of benefits including best holiday allowance in the market
• Hybrid Working - 4 days office & 1 remote. Hours - 9.30 am to 5.30 pm
• City/LivSt

The Payroll Manager will have experience leading a busy in-house payroll department, using ADP Freedom/ADP HCM, from the legal or corporate sector and have hands-on UK and international payroll accounting experience.

Payroll Manager Responsibilities:

• Overseeing payroll review, submission and compliance of the London and European offices
• Supervision of the Payroll Coordinator
• Main contact of department for HR, Out-sourced providers, office managers, Tax, and HMRC whilst ensuring a high level of customer care and service delivery
• Accurate input and validation of all payroll information to the online payroll system, ensuring that salaries are successfully processed within strict deadlines
• Overview and management of monthly process completions in accordance with internal Standard Operating Procedures
• Complete all year-end reporting of PSA, P11Ds, STVB A, London ADP Year-end process with issue of P60s
• Monitoring US paid employees on the shadow UK payroll, including calculating Tax and NI Liability for the US Payroll to implement
• Earnings, Tax & NI paid for each US associate ready for US tax returns. Liaising with the firm's accountants during the year and at year-end to ensure correct employees included on year-end filing and payments balance. Preparing and distributing P11D to US employees
• Responsible for the submission of Gender Pay Gap figures
• Work with Human Resources to calculate and execute complex termination arrangements and applying to the payroll
• Dealing with any manual payments and special requests in accordance with instructions from authorised managers and HR as appropriate
• Benefits: providing the Benefits Manager with payroll advice on specific benefits, dealing with pension queries and providing pension breakdowns, managing and processing parental leave requests
• Provision of analysis and reporting of payroll data as and when required
• Working as a fully integrated member of the team, establishing good rapport, helping and supporting other team members whenever appropriate
• Keeping up to date with changing legislation relating to all aspects of payroll