Your new company

You'll be joining a large people-focused organisation with a strong emphasis on high-quality internal service delivery. The environment values collaboration, continuous improvement and a positive colleague experience, with payroll seen as a key contributor to operational excellence.

Your new role

In this Assistant Payroll Manager position, you'll oversee the day-to-day running of the payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely salary processing. You'll support and develop payroll team members, act as an escalation point for complex queries, and take responsibility for maintaining high service standards. The role also includes driving process improvements, maintaining clear workflows and documentation, supporting pension administration, partnering with internal teams to refine systems, and stepping in to manage full payroll operations when required.

What you'll need to succeed

To succeed in this role, you will be operating at a management or senior team leader level already, have hands-on experience managing teams, be confident with UK end-to-end payroll, and ideally have experience with LGPS schemes and NHS pensions schemes.

This role is an FTC 12-month contract, visa sponsorship is not available, and the ideal candidate will be available to start within a few weeks notice.

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