Payroll Specialist, Senior Manager

The key responsibilities of this role include:

• Manage a team of UK and International payroll implementation specialists
• Manage implementation team client portfolios and workflow
• Design compliant payroll solutions and oversee transition to the PwC delivery model
• Project manage new payroll setups and chair client progress meetings
• Oversight and control of client deliverables to PwC standards
• Key Payroll contact for clients and payroll colleagues across the PwC network
• Senior Management team reporting on status of implementation projects and early stage delivery
• Be knowledgeable on global mobility and impact on payroll processing in both home/host country
• Be familiar with employer tax reporting obligations and work with PwC tax colleagues and clients to implement tax compliance solutions where they are closely connected with payroll eg P11D reporting
• Advise payroll colleagues and clients on the correct payroll tax/social security treatment of complex remuneration eg share's, Restricted Stock Unit's, overseas payments, trailing bonuses and pensions
• Introducing new procedures to improve first time payroll accuracy and efficiency
• Keep up to date with payroll legislative changes as well as any other changes affecting payroll processing, for example pension auto-enrolment, apprenticeship levy, pay rolling benefits etc
• Support team recruitment, training and continued development
• Work as part of the management team in supporting business growth and delivering our business strategy
• Provide payroll consultancy services to current and potential payroll clients
• Represent PwC payroll at internal and external stakeholder events

Skills and experience:

• Signicant experience in the complexities of processing complex payrolls
• Solid working experience in a manager/senior manager role is essential
• A professional payroll or tax qualification eg CIPP diploma or ATT
• Recent relevant experience with implementing payroll and/or employer tax solutions
• Experience in leading several large scale payroll implementations
• Flexibility and good team working skills
• The ability to travel occasionally is desirable
• Strong in both written and verbal communications
• Drive and determination
• Good customer service skills and comfortable in a client facing environment
• Very highly organised
• Strong IT skills and can adapt quickly to working with new technologies

About Us
About PwC

We're one of the world's leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

Assurance

Assurance is a dynamic place to be right now, and the variety of opportunities on offer is unprecedented. It's work that really does matter. It matters for businesses, governments and society at large. Our team provides confidence on the most complex decisions companies have to take and this provides a wealth of opportunities to everyone who joins us and works with us.

The skills we look for in future employees

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Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

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