Payroll Team Leader

We're looking for a Payroll Team Leader to join our Head Office team based in Bury! 

The Payroll team supports our colleagues across the business by ensuring their pay is processed seamlessly. Our aim is to deliver a first class serivce so our colleagues can keep doing what they do best!

·       Job Title – Payroll Team Leader

·       Location – BL9 8RR

·       Working rota – Mon-Fri

·       Working hours – 40

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Payroll Team Leader, you'll be doing the following: 

• You'll be ensuring the completion of payrolls for 35,000 colleagues over 43 payrolls, including 5 Offshore payrolls, over weekly, lunar and monthly pay frequencies
• You'll be ensuring the team are meeting key deadlines and SLA’s to a high quality
• You'll be promoting best practice and ensuring the team are keeping our colleagues at the centre of what they do
• You'll be training the team on payroll processing and legislative changes, monitoring their performance and helping them develop in their careers.
• You'll be proactively keeping an eye on trends in queries and liaising with key stakeholders across the business to resolve issues at source
• You'll be the go-to person for guidance and support both within the team and across the business.

What We're Looking For:

Desirable skills:

• Experience of working with CoreHR payroll software
• CIPP or similar accredited
• Experience of mentoring a large team

Essential skills:

• Previous experience of working with high volume payrolls

• A solid understanding of payroll, benefits and general legislation, ideally to include some offshore legislation knowledge.
• Strong time management and coordination skills to help manage the team to meet key deadlines
• People focused, with a desire to see your team succeed
• A desire to learn and continuously improve
• A keen eye for detail and accuracy
• Being able to keep our colleagues at the centre of all you do
• Able to organise your time to meet key deadlines both by yourself and as part of the team
• Excellent communication skills to be able to break down pay queries and make them understandable for our colleagues and your team members

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues over 3,400 stores across several retail fascia's in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

• Incremental Holiday Allowance
• Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
• Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
• Discounted Gym membership
• Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
• Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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