Payroll Transformation & Audit Lead

Develop a Payroll function - Audit, Compliance and Governance

Impactful work - transformation lead

About Our Client

Our Client is a growing and highly acquisitive business, trading for over 20 years, operating in over 15 countries globally, and employing over 1,000 people worldwide. The position is based in Hounslow but operates internationally.

Job Description

Payroll Transformation & Audit Lead

• Audit external payroll providers for compliance with UK legislation, HMRC, RTI, and other regulatory bodies, identifying and mitigating risks.
• Audit pension schemes to ensure compliance, including auto-enrolment, salary sacrifice impacts, and absence periods.
• Create and maintain SOPs and payroll documentation for end-to-end payroll processing, preparing for potential changes in payroll providers.
• Act as the main contact between operational managers and payroll providers to ensure consistency, compliance, and understanding of payroll processes.
• Improve payroll accuracy by reducing late submissions and post-termination payments, and deliver cost savings by reducing third-party queries and billable hours.
• Audit Time & Attendance data to ensure correct processing of hours, overtime, and absences.
• Lead payroll transformation programs to optimise efficiency and accuracy, including process improvement projects.
• Ensure year-end submissions (P11d, P60s, Form 42) are accurate and compliant, and conduct National Minimum Wage audits.
• Collaborate with Finance for monthly payroll approvals, ensuring accuracy and coordinating BACs approval and fund release.
• Implement and drive process change and automation, identifying technologies to deliver lean solutions, and handle sensitive payroll data with confidence.

The Successful Applicant

Payroll Transformation & Audit Lead

• Immediately available and/or on short notice.
• A Payroll leader and manager - prior exposure and experience necessary (European organisation highly desirable).
• Strong IT Skills.
• Excellent system knowledge and technical ability.
• Based within Hounslow - need to travel to the office (hybrid).
• Prior exposure to management of payroll projects.
• Exposure to Audit, payroll transformation strategy as well as moving through project work (current to future state).

What's on Offer

Payroll Transformation & Audit Lead

• Immediate Start - Interim to Permanent opportunity.
• Salary c. £330-£380 per day.
• Initial rolling 6-month contract.
• Life Insurance.
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays.
• Hounslow based - Hybrid working.
• Payroll Compliance, Audit, Transformation and process ownership.