Payroll Services Lead
hace 7 días
Oxford
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Payroll & People Services Operations Lead to join a large, complex public sector organisation on a 12-month basis. This is a senior leadership role focused on stabilising, modernising, and leading the payroll and people services function, ensuring accurate, compliant and efficient service delivery across the organisation. Key responsibilities include: • Leading the delivery of a timely and accurate payroll service via an outsourced provider, • Managing payroll contracts, SLAs, KPIs and service performance, • Acting as the organisation’s subject matter expert on payroll, pensions, and compliance, • Overseeing all employee lifecycle changes (pay, absence, pensions, contractual changes etc.), • Driving service improvement, process optimisation, and governance across payroll and people services, • Ensuring strong data integrity, audit controls, and reporting capability, • Leading and developing a People Services team, embedding high performance and continuous improvement, • Acting as the key interface between HR, Finance, and payroll providers You will bring: • Extensive payroll expertise, ideally within the NHS or public sector, • Strong knowledge of NHS pensions, and statutory payroll regulations, • A track record of leading payroll functions, including outsourced service manage...