Head of Payroll (London)

66 Days Old

Location: This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our Corby or London Office.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Head of Payroll to join our highly driven People Shared Services Team. In this critical role, you will take the lead in managing the payroll function for our 3,500 employees in the UK, while creating and executing the global payroll strategy. Youll have the opportunity to drive operational excellence and influence the direction of payroll services across the organisation.

What you will be doing:
Lead day-to-day management of our payroll team, ensuring performance against agreed SLAs and KPIs.
Support the development of requirements for payroll supplier proposals, ensuring alignment with business needs.
Ensure compliance with regulatory and business requirements, overseeing payroll solutions in line with relevant tax and social security bodies.
Oversee payroll implementation, ensuring solutions meet predefined success criteria and align with business requirements.
Develop effective risk management and disaster recovery plans related to payroll activities.
Lead, inspire, and develop the payroll team, offering feedback, training, and career progression.

About you:
Experienced Payroll lead with a strong ability to manage pressure and change.
Proven track record in a payroll leadership role, managing multiple payroll solutions and vendors.
Strong understanding of people systems and platforms and up-to-date tax and social security legislation.
Experience with payroll system reviews and supplier selections.
Proven ability to deliver projects involving significant technical change.
Strong problem-solving, analytical, and numeracy skills (e.g., reconciliations, statistics).

We are RS Group:
RS is a global solutions partner for industrial customers and suppliers. Our business has operations in three geographical regions the Americas, EMEA and APAC, supported by global organisations for supply chain, corporate functions, marketing, and product & supplier management.

Our market today is large, fragmented, local in nature and digitally immature. Only a few international distributors serve it, with many regional and local providers, who largely trade offline. We stock over 2,500 supplier brands, 500k products and 61% of our sales are digital.

We are committed to Making Amazing Happen for a better world and our Vision is to become first choice for customer, suppliers, our people, and communities.

RS is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people thrive. We recognise that a diverse and representative workforce is critical to our success, and our aim is to create a business where people can be their true selves. Our employees expect this as a matter of course and it is fundamental to how we attract, develop, and retain the best talent.

In line with our D&I policy, we recruit and develop employees who are the best suited to the requirements of the job role, regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability.

The extras youll get:
At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits youd expect from a FTSE listed company, weve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:
Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma
Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members
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

Are you ready to explore the possibilities?

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Location:
London
Job Type:
FullTime

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