Payroll Senior Manager - Edinburgh

Wilkinson & Associates is working with an award-winning accountancy practice as they seek to hire a Payroll Senior Manager in Edinburgh.

Reporting directly to the Managing Partner, the role will oversee the payroll service for clients from a variety of sectors and sizes, working together with a Payroll Manager and a team of 8. The successful candidate should have proven professional payroll experience, preferably within a payroll bureau at a management level.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual to continue to deliver and develop the payroll service, in what is an exciting time for the payroll profession.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the payroll department to deliver an exceptional, high quality, service whilst maintaining excellent client relationships
• Ensure the payroll service is delivered timely, accurately and in line statutory requirements
• With the Payroll Manager, manage and delegate the workflow within the department
• Act as a skilled people manager who can coach and develop a team
• Make recommendations for improved practices and implement improvements
• Maintain and share expert knowledge and proactively identify upcoming changes that will impact payroll
• Resolve complex payroll queries and issues as they arise
• Drive business development initiatives, win new payroll clients and promote the firm
• Monitor and manage department performance including the management of fees and work in progress
• Suggest methods to improve profitability of client work and work with the Partners to achieve improvements
• Responsibility for the BACS relationship and for submitting BACS files for the firm

Required Skills & Attributes:

• Experience of managing multiple payroll clients
• Accountable leader who acts as a role model for the team
• Ability to continually improve work and develop solutions to problems
• Evidence of a positive attitude of mind to work and to clients required
• Ability to demonstrate initiative and self-motivation whilst managing a team
• Proven ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• An excellent communicator with strong writing skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Commercial awareness and confident at liaising with managers and business leaders
• Strong IT skills, with working knowledge of payroll software and ideally experience of Iris (Star) payroll