Head of Payroll UK&I

Head of Payroll – UK & Ireland
Location: Hybrid working from our Corby offices
RS Group is looking for a highly skilled and dynamic Head of Payroll to lead the function within our UK&I business. Acting as our subject matter expert you will develop an innovative payroll strategy through business partnering with key stakeholders and working in partnership with all functions to provide insight and deliver operational excellence.

What You’ll Be Doing

As our Head of Payroll UK&I, you will:

• Provide a core service of accurate and efficient payroll processing ensuring all payments are processed in accordance with described processes
• Research, develop and recommend policies to ensure compliance in advance of HMRC changes (or relevant tax body) which impact all aspects of Employment Tax directly or indirectly
• Add value to payroll related and associated activities by continually critically reviewing and analysing processes on order to develop and maintain an innovative payroll strategy.
• Partner with HRSC, Reward, Pensions and Indirect Procurement to deliver an engaging and effective employee benefits package
• Maintain SAO, HMRC (or relevant tax body), External and Internal Audit compliance in relation to employee remuneration and expenses payments
• Deliver compliant executive share and Bonus Plans
• Effective business operation and risk management in relation to payroll related activities. Maintain an effective disaster recovery / business continuity plan.
• Identify and utilise strengths within the teams to support career progression and build meaningful development plans.
• Develop the skills and potential of your team, inspiring the delivery of engaging training, good quality feedback and career progression.
• Create a culture of honest and open communication; facilitating regular opportunities for team communication and delivery of department & business updates.
• Drive a high performing culture of quality within your team; acting upon opportunities for improvement in employee payroll experience
• Undertake all people management processes in line with company guidelines such as absence management.

About You
As the ideal candidate, you will bring exceptional leadership skills, technical expertise, and a proactive approach to managing payroll. You’ll excel at collaborating with stakeholders and other teams, ensuring seamless delivery, system optimization, and continuous improvement.
 

What We’re Looking For

• Minimum of CIPP diploma in Payroll Management.
• Comprehensive and working knowledge of payroll systems.
• Demonstrated payroll management experience.
• Experience in dispensations, PSA’s and Employee benefits packages.
• Demonstrated team leadership ability.
• Ability to create, review and supply policies and procedures.
• Legislative and reward compliance – ability to interpret relevant rewards and legislation.
• Problem solving and analytical skills.
• Numeracy skills - reconciliations and statistics.
• The highest level of confidentiality.

The extras you’ll get:

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:​

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation​
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome​
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support through to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause​
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery​
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all. 

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.  ​

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.  ​

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.  ​

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.  ​

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. ​

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.​