Payroll Manager

Permanent, Part Time (24 hours per week, Tuesday - Friday). We will also consider more hours (up to 35 hours per week) for the right candidate.

Role:

An exciting opportunity to lead, develop and support the Group’s Payroll Function, providing the full range of payroll services to all parts of the organisation.

• Manage and develop the payroll service, as part of a Group Shared Services function, ensuring it meets organisational and colleague expectations and all statutory and regulatory compliance responsibilities.
• Deliver services in line with standards agreed with JRHT and JRF.
• To be the organisational owner of the HR/Payroll system and data within this. This includes maintaining and upgrading all HR systems.
• Drive forward continuous improvement including:
  
  • Ensuring potential legislation changes are understood and preparations are made for implementation.
  • Simplification of processing
  • Colleague self-serve.

Experience & Skills

Skills:

• Working autonomously, able to problem solve and demonstrate operational and strategic skills.
• Strong analytical skills, including advanced formulas and data manipulation within Excel.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to persuade and influence people at all levels.
• Strong problem solving and delivery skills; able to work with senior leaders to analyse the issues, develop solutions and implement them.
• Experience of leading a team through change and a track record of enabling a high performing team.
• Account management: demonstrable skills of developing positive and productive relationships with external partners so that they are well equipped to work in tandem to achieve JRF/JRHT’s requirements.
• Project management skills: able to lead payroll projects and demonstrate benefits.

Experience:

• Breadth and depth of experience of working as a Payroll Manager in a range of organisations.
• CIPP or equivalent qualification is desirable but not essential

Requirements

• The post holder will be expected to demonstrate the organisation’s values and behaviours outlined in detail in JRF/ JRHT’s 'Values and behaviours’ booklet.
• Role model, champion, support as well as holding others to account for living our values through demonstrating the key behaviours that underpin our values.
• Create and champion a culture of trust by:
  
  • Acting with integrity - doing the right thing in the right way, delivering on promises and being open to challenge.
  • Always improving - making positive suggestions to improve our services and our work, embracing change, and encouraging others to do the same, and learning from mistakes, sharing that learning, and making changes.
  • Communicating well - giving others relevant information in a confident and knowledgeable way, updating people when required and listening carefully.
• Create and champion a culture that cares by:
  
  • Being supportive - looking after the health and wellbeing of yourself and others, showing people you care through your actions and being supportive and offering advice, or connecting people to places where they can access it.
  • Being Inclusive - actively valuing difference (e.g. behaviour, cognitive, gender, sexuality, ability, religion, race, background, perspective); people are proud of who; challenging discrimination and unfairness when I see it - in others and myself.
  • Showing respect - treating others with kindness and respect, seeking feedback, and receiving it openly, and apologising when you make a mistake.
• Create and champion a culture that makes a difference by:
  
  • Working together - focusing on what is best for the organisation, sharing information, encouraging teamwork, and spotting and solving problems.
  • Outcomes focused -focusing on delivering outputs and outcomes through teams in line with strategic and operational plans.
  • Resourceful - proactive and regular review to optimise all our resources, finding new ways to deliver value for money through our activities.

About us

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) is a social change organisation with a 100-year history. Our mission is to support and speed up the transition to a more equitable and just future, free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish. The Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) is a registered housing association and care provider in Yorkshire and the North East. JRF and JRHT are two important influencing organisations with an ambitious agenda for inspiring positive change in the UK in line with our vision of a prosperous and poverty free UK.

How to apply

If you share our passion and this role sounds like you, then we’re looking forward to hearing from you.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At JRF/JRHT we believe in giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. Applications are welcome from all regardless of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race, sex, sexual orientation, trans status or social economic background. We positively encourage applications from people with experience of living in poverty.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. This means that we are committed to the recruitment, progression and retention of disabled individuals. We shall also offer interviews to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the job. If you have a disability, please tell us if you would like to be considered for an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.