Payroll Manager

Policy Expert – Payroll Manager 

🚀 We’re on a mission to make: The most successful insurance disruptor people want to stay with for life

Are you ready to transform the insurance industry with innovative technology? At Policy Expert, we are on a mission to revolutionize Home, Pet, and Motor insurance, making it clear, fair, and great value for customers. Since our inception in 2011, our breakthrough thinking and proprietary tech, have won us over 1.5 million customers and the title of the UK’s No.1-rated home insurance provider for 9 years. 🏆  

Hear from our team about what it's like working at Policy Expert ✨ 

Your Responsibilities

As our Payroll Manager, you will be responsible for providing dedicated pay and reward expertise and professional guidance to our colleagues.

This role will be responsible for ensuring all policies, processes and procedures relating to payroll and employment tax are reviewed and maintained in line with legislation.  You will play a vital role in safeguarding the financial wellbeing of the company and ensuring our colleagues are paid accurately and on time.  Your goal will be maintaining compliance and streamlining payroll procedures for efficiency.

• Develop and enhance robust systems to process payroll transactions.
• Collating data from payroll sources and maintain payroll records.
• Oversee processing of payroll changes (New Hires, promotions, and system upgrades)

• Maintaining contact with the external payroll provider for the UK, submitting the data for the monthly payroll process, reviewing the preliminary reports, and approving the final version of the pay slips.
• Ensuring all starter and leaver paperwork is processed in a timely manner, depending on local requirements.

• Arrange weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year-end reports.
• Administer benefit plans.
• Maintain the Payroll inbox and respond to online and in person queries.
• Ensure payroll is completed in an accurate and timely manner.
• Preparation of payroll related documents.
• Maintain accurate account balances.
• Ensure all payroll information and records are maintained in accordance with statutory requirements and support internal and external audits related as such.
• Resolve issues relating to payroll from colleagues.
• Advising team members about taxes and employment laws on Salary
• Calculating wage increments, pension, overtime payments and public holiday pay
• Processing pension uploads and queries
• Issuing bank transfers for employee payments
• Analysing and reporting on payroll data
• Auditing the payroll to make sure it satisfies all government regulations.
• Developing and leading the refining of payroll procedures
• Responsible for filing P45s, P60s, P11Ds
• Contractor timesheets and filing

Who are you:

The People Team are a team of culture champions, driven to accelerate Policy Expert’s growth and enhance our colleague’s journey with us.  You will naturally inspire the colleagues around you and look to empower our people in an environment where they are recognised for their contribution.  You will lead with your desire to put people first and actively seek out opportunities to add value and be creative.

• Previous payroll management experience, demonstrable success in a similar role
• Accurate documenting skills and attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills needed to convey complex payroll matters to all levels of the
• Competent IT skills, particularly proficiency with payroll software
• You’re analytical and comfortable in dealing with data/numbers.
• You’re used to forecasting, budgeting, and reporting on key business data.
• You’re able to meet deadlines by having strong time management skills.
• You’re a motivated self-starter and passionate people manager, that’s keen to make a difference.
• You’re confident and used to presenting data in an interesting way.
• You’re an effective influencer that can manage stakeholders.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skill.
• You’re a good organiser who is level-headed under pressure.

Benefits:

📍 This role will be based in our London office in a 50/50 Hybrid mode.

💸 Generous Pension contribution scheme

🏥 Private medical & Dental cover

📚 Learning budget of £1,000 a year + Study leave (with encouragement to use it)

😁 Enhanced maternity & paternity 

🚉 Travel season ticket loan

🎟️ Access to a wide selection of London O2 events and use of a Private Lounge

🌈 Employee Wellbeing Programme

What We Stand For and Next Steps

 “We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer. We treat all applications equally and recruit based solely on an individual’s skills, knowledge, and experience. The quality and growing diversity of our team is a testament to this commitment.” 

At Policy Expert, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive environment for all candidates. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process to accommodate your needs, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring every candidate has an equal opportunity to succeed and will work with you to provide the necessary support.

We aim to contact you within 14 working days of your application. You will be notified if your application is successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements.

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