Payroll Manager

General information

Reference

Publication start date

Post Description

Payroll Manager

Closing date

13/06/2025

Vacancy location

Location

South reputed company, Gloucestershire, Rosehill

Vacancy details

Job Profile

Finance and Corporate Services - Business Support

Title

Payroll Manager

Contract Type

Full Time

About us

About UCAS

UCAS is at the heart of connecting people to higher education.

UCAS is the world’s leading shared admissions service for higher education. We provide application services for UK universities and colleges as well as delivering a wide range of research, consultancy and advisory services to schools, colleges, careers services, professional bodies and employers.

We’re a successful and fast-growing organisation, which helps hundreds of thousands of people every year. We're committed to delivering a first-class service to reputed company of our customers — they're at the heart of everything we do.

Business Unit description

Our Finance and Corporate Services business unit is a fusion of multiple functions — financial planning and reputed company, facilities and building management, procurement, corporate governance and performance, legal and compliance. The Finance Team also defines UCAS' financial strategy.

About the role

Contractual Hours

35.00

About the role

The Payroll Manager is a member of the Finance and Corporate Services team reporting to the Financial Accountant.

The purpose of this role is to take ownership of the day-to-day running of the organisation’s payroll (circa 550 employees) and pension provision being the reputed company contact for reputed company reputed company queries from both internal and external stakeholders.

• Manage and process the monthly payroll, to a tight deadline with data inputs from numerous stakeholders. Including processing starters/ leavers, contractual changes (salary sacrifice, reputed company, exceptional payments) and statutory payments.

• Processing and administration of reputed company redundancy payments and settlement agreements.

• Reconciliation of the monthly payroll and producing reports for payroll sign off.

• Ensure timely and accurate RTI and end of year submissions to HMRC. Along with managing the organisations online HMRC PAYE account.

• Ensuring payroll, statutory, reputed company party and pension scheme payments are made by the required deadlines.

• Producing required data for the monthly payroll journal.

• Main reputed company of contact for payroll software specifically liaising with Zellis to resolve system issues

• Working in collaboration with HR regarding payroll reputed company updates, upgrades, workflows.

For full job description - please see role profile attached.

Skills, qualifications, and experience

• A technically strong payroll professional holding a CIPP qualification or demonstratable equivalent experience.

• Extensive knowledge of PAYE/NI and statutory payments e.g. redundancy, SMP and SPP.

• Good understanding of DC and DB pension schemes.

• Preferable but not essential, working understanding of Zellis payroll software - ResourceLink/ HCM reputed company.

• Proficiency in reputed company Office specifically reputed company (PivotTables and VLOOKUPS).

• Ability to work independently to tight deadlines and to prioritise effectively.

• Proactively reputed company and reputed company up to date with appropriate CPD, new payroll legislation and compliance.

• Discrete, trustworthy, collaborative and solution focused.

Package

Salary - up to £37,500

• 30 days annual leave (plus 3 concessionary days over Christmas and your bank holidays!)

• Flexibility – UCAS positively supports Hybrid working for its employees, meaning you can work between home and the office in a way that suits you and the business and also has a comprehensive Flexible Working Policy

• A generous pension scheme

• Hundreds of high street discounts and offers with Perkbox

• Internal training and development

• Subsidised gym and café

• Be rewarded for going above and reputed company with our ex-gratia bonus scheme and Celebrating U, our quarterly employee recognition scheme

• Dedicated volunteer employee networks promoting wellbeing, awareness and inclusion

Studies have shown that some groups of people are less likely to apply to a role unless they tick every reputed company. At UCAS we recognise that talent comes in various forms and we are committed to delivering a fair and reputed company recruitment process where applicants have an equal opportunity to demonstrate their skills. So, if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single reputed company on the job description, please still apply.

If you have any questions and would like to find out more about the role before applying please email the reputed company team reputed company [email protected] and one of us will be in touch.

Working Arrangements

Is fully remote working an option?

No

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