Assistant Payroll Manager

Assistant Payroll Manager - Fixed Term

The Perfume Shop

Role Purpose:

To ensure the efficient, accurate and timely processing of salary and wage payments for all employees, Head Office, Retail and Warehouse. Ensure all information is processed in accordance with internal procedures and in-line with statutory / legal requirements. To deputize for the Payroll Manager as required.

A typical day in this role includes:

• Responsible for preparing and running monthly and lunar(4 weekly) payrolls, according to the payroll processing schedule
• Responsible for managing on-going auto enrolment procedures
• Ensure compliance with statutory payroll requirements
• Work collaboratively other departments, mainly finance, to provide all relevant payroll data
• Calculate and verify information received, including claims for all statutory payments, whilst dealing with the implications of salary sacrifice schemes
• Process P45s and P46s for new starters, tax codes issued by HMRC on P6 forms and student loans issued by HMRC and the Revenue in ROI
• Produce weekly Payroll reports such as Payroll Spend versus Payroll Budget
• Support the Payroll Team to dealing with all payroll related correspondence
• Assist the Payroll Manager in leading and motivating the Payroll Team, monitoring, and encouraging improvements towards standards of work via guidance, coaching and mentoring
• Build good working relationships internally and with relevant AS Watson employees in the wider group
• Maintain up to date knowledge of relevant changes in legislation and apply to the role
• The above list is non-exhaustive and additional duties may be required

This job is a good fit for you if you:

• Have detailed knowledge of how payroll is processed across a multi-site environment including variable pay processing (monthly and 4 weekly payrolls) and HMRC procedures and requirements.
• Can conduct yourself in a professional and confident manner, enabling you to liaise with employees at all levels

What you'll need:

Knowledge:

• Detailed knowledge of how payroll is processed across a multi-site environment including variable pay processing (monthly and 4 weekly payrolls) and HMRC procedures and requirements.
• Working knowledge of MS Office applications, especially strong Excel skills

Skills:

• Excellent skills in operational payroll workload planning
• Good management skills (decision making, coaching) - confident in day to day management of a small team
• Works well under pressure and to make sound judgement calls about how multiple competing priorities should be addressed
• Good communication skills
• Demonstrable accuracy and attention to detail

Experience of:

• Have a good level of experience of managing / supervising an in-house payroll team
• Experience of running more than one payroll in a Retail business is desirable