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💼 Payroll Team Leader \n 📍 Location: Epsom, Surrey \n 🏢 Office-based through probation, moving to hybrid after successful completion \n 📌 Full-time \n \n We are looking for an experienced Payroll Team Leader to lead the accurate, compliant and timely delivery of a UK in-house payroll service within a large engineering and infrastructure organisation. \n This role is ideal for someone who has built their career in calm, controlled payroll operations and is ready to bring that discipline into a structured, multinational environment. \n You will sit at the intersection of hands-on payroll delivery and real team leadership, owning the day-to-day payroll operation, maintaining strong governance and controls, supporting legislative and benefit changes, and providing clear reporting to senior HR stakeholders. \n \n 🔎 The Role \n As Payroll Team Leader, you will lead the end-to-end UK payroll cycle, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time while supporting the payroll team with workload control, priorities, deadlines and escalations. \n You will also play a key role in payroll governance, National Minimum Wage compliance, benefits processing, reconciliations, reporting and continuous improvement. \n \n ✅ Key Responsibilities \n • Lead the end-to-end delivery of the UK in-house payroll cycle \n • Manage the payroll team’s daily workload, priorities and deadlines \n • Provide guidance, coaching and escalation support to payroll colleagues \n • Own payroll validation, reconciliations, exception checks, approvals and audit controls \n • Ensure compliance with UK payroll legislation, HMRC requirements, PAYE, National Insurance, statutory payments and company policy \n • Monitor National Minimum Wage compliance, especially around salary sacrifice and flexible benefit deductions \n • Process and oversee the payroll treatment of flexible benefits \n • Partner with Reward, Benefits, HR Operations, HR Business Partners, Finance, pensions and systems teams \n • Produce payroll service reporting covering accuracy, timeliness, exceptions, service levels, incidents, risks and improvement actions \n • Act as the escalation point for complex payroll queries \n • Maintain strong process documentation, controls and audit trails \n • Support year-end and statutory payroll activity \n • Identify opportunities to improve payroll efficiency, controls and data quality \n \n 👤 What we are looking for \n • Proven hands-on experience delivering end-to-end UK payroll \n • Experience in an in-house or similarly complex payroll environment \n • Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, including PAYE, NI, statutory payments, RTI and National Minimum Wage principles \n • Experience leading or managing payroll colleagues \n • Strong workload control, coaching and escalation handling experience \n • Experience with payroll-related benefits, salary sacrifice or flexible benefit schemes \n • Confident stakeholder management and payroll performance reporting skills \n • Strong attention to detail, numerical ability and deadline discipline \n • Good Excel skills and confidence working across payroll systems, HRIS platforms and employee data \n \n ⭐ Strong Differentiators \n • CIPP qualification or recognised payroll training \n • Governance, audit and controls experience, including SOX or similar compliance environments \n • Experience across pensions payroll, including DB, DC and auto-enrolment \n • Ability to translate payroll complexity into clear reporting for Finance, HR and senior leadership \n • Experience with process improvement, payroll migrations or fixing fragile payroll operations \n • Familiarity with Workday, Oracle, SAP, Dayforce, ADP, Zellis or similar systems \n \n 🎁 Why this role \n • Stable, well-established organisation with a structured HR operating model \n • Real ownership of a meaningful part of the payroll cycle \n • Direct visibility to senior stakeholders \n • Opportunity to bring calm, controlled leadership into a business that values governance and payroll accuracy \n \n 📩 For a confidential conversation, please get in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

Head of Reward – Leading Property Company \n Location: South West London \n Hours: Full-time, office-based, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am – 5:30 pm \n Salary: £75,000 – £85,000 per annum, depending on experience, plus benefits \n \n Our client, a leading property company to join its HR team as Head of Reward to drive its total reward strategy. This is an exciting opportunity for to shape and deliver a competitive reward framework that supports business performance, attracts and retains top talent, and enhances the overall employee experience. \n The successful candidate will oversee the annual reward cycle, reward governance and benefits strategy, ensuring the organisation continues to offer a market-leading reward proposition. \n Key Responsibilities \n\n • Develop and deliver the company's total reward strategy, ensuring pay, incentives and benefits align with business objectives and performance goals.\n, • Own and manage the annual reward calendar, including salary reviews, bonus planning, commission structures, share schemes and benefits renewals.\n, • It is essential that you have proven experience designing, implementing, and managing commission schemes that directly align with revenue generation and business objectives.\n, • Design and maintain salary frameworks, job grading, job evaluation and benchmarking processes to ensure fair and competitive remuneration.\n, • Oversee bonus and commission schemes, partnering with senior leadership to ensure reward programmes drive performance and support commercial objectives.\n, • Manage employee share schemes in partnership with Finance, Legal and external advisers.\n, • Lead the employee benefits strategy, including the management of benefit platforms and insured benefits such as private medical insurance, life assurance and wellbeing programmes.\n, • Support reward integration and harmonisation activities relating to business acquisitions.\n, • Negotiate with benefit providers, brokers and insurers to secure competitive packages while managing costs effectively.\n, • Oversee company pension arrangements and ensure compliance with UK auto-enrolment legislation.\n, • Ensure all reward practices, commission arrangements and pay structures comply with National Minimum Wage legislation and other relevant UK reward regulations.\n, • Produce reward analytics and market insights to support strategic business decisions.\n, • Lead gender pay gap reporting, pay transparency initiatives and provide support for Remuneration Committee (RemCo) activities.\n, • Prepare and deliver annual reporting on total reward across the business.\n\n Skills & Experience \n\n • Proven leadership experience in reward, compensation and benefits within a fast-paced, multi-site organisation.\n, • Strong knowledge of UK reward legislation, including National Minimum Wage, pensions and reward governance.\n, • Experience managing share schemes, bonus and commission plans, and insured employee benefits.\n, • Strong commercial awareness with excellent analytical skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.\n, • Excellent communication, stakeholder management and reward programme delivery skills.\n, • A strategic mindset with the ability to develop and implement reward initiatives that support organisational growth and employee engagement.\n\n To hear more send your CV for a confidential discussion

The successful candidate will oversee the annual reward cycle, reward governance and benefits strategy, ensuring the organisation continues to offer a market-leading reward proposition. Ensure all reward practices, commission arrangements and pay structures comply with National Minimum Wage legislat

The successful candidate will oversee the annual reward cycle, reward governance and benefits strategy, ensuring the organisation continues to offer a market-leading reward proposition. Ensure all reward practices, commission arrangements and pay structures comply with National Minimum Wage legislat