Senior Payroll, Pensions and Systems Manager

• A wide-spanning role covering payroll, pensions and finance systems
• An opportunity to work within a leading Public Sector organisation

About Our Client

Working for South Yorkshire Police doesn't have to mean patrolling the streets; our police staff work side by side with uniformed officers. A strong team of professional support staff work behind the scenes in many different areas of our organisation, including in finance. We need skilled people, like you, to join our police family to keep our South Yorkshire communities safe. We have an annual budget in excess of £300 million and employ over 3,000 police officers and 2,200 support staff. South Yorkshire Police are committed to attracting, selecting, hiring, retaining and developing a diverse and professional workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve, enabling us to meet and exceed our corporate finance goals and objectives.

Like most organisations, South Yorkshire Police is transforming the way we deliver our services and run the organisation to meet ever more demanding challenges. We have a Medium-Term Resource Strategy underpinned by a draft recovery plan to help achieve our mission. The Finance department is very much at the centre of delivering this strategy working collaboratively with all senior leaders across the organisation and our external partners. Therefore, as part of this we are looking for talented individuals who are experienced finance professionals, resilient and driven to achieve change.

Job Description

In this fast-paced and varied Senior Payroll, Pensions and Systems Manager position based in Sheffield, you will strategically lead on all aspects of payroll, pensions and systems management, ensuring payroll deadlines and work within the teams are completed in a timely, accurate and compliant manner. You will work with the Senior Command Team to develop and improve efficiency, enhance controls and align processes in order to meet the demands of the organisational objectives.

Additional responsibilities will include:

• Being the strategic lead for the pensions arrangements within the force
• Managing and leading internal and external contractual relationships relating to pensions administration
• Providing direction and leadership to the Payroll Manager and Pensions team to ensure force and stakeholder requirements are met
• Creating a culture of teamwork, ensuring communication is effective, free-flowing and connecting strongly within the finance function
• Implementing effective performance frameworks for the teams, driving the delivery of KPIs for each specialism, reviewing standards of work and taking appropriate actions for discrepancies.
• Managing responsibilities for the McCloud remedy
• Ensuring compliance with Police Regulations and legislative requirements
• Advising Senior Command Team and business leaders on pension and payroll tax matters

The Successful Applicant

For this Senior Payroll, Pensions and Systems Manager, we're looking for:

• Significant, demonstrable experience of payroll and pensions management, ideally within the public sector
• Strong commercial acumen with the desire to help drive business performance and show the wider Force how Payroll, Pensions and Systems Management activity can support daily operations
• Ability to use a range of communication and influencing techniques to successfully negotiate, collaborate or effect change in relation to matters of a specialisms
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and experience of building working relationships and establishing credibility with stakeholders of all seniority
• Open to change, intellectually curious and able to challenge existing thinking to initiate and embrace innovation

What's on Offer

Outstanding pension contribution from the Local Government Pension Scheme + Enhanced AL allowance + Blue light discount card + Family-friendly policies + Wellbeing and welfare services + Hybrid working

Applications close on Monday, 5th May; however, we encourage early submissions as we may close the application process sooner if we receive a high volume of interest.

Contact
Chris Chappell

0113 243 7711
Quote job ref
JN-042025-6714792Z

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents. All third party applications will be forwarded to Michael Page.