Payroll Manager

Location

Crawley, West Sussex | United Kingdom

Job description

Payroll Manager

Our team in the UK has an unwavering focus on our commitment to excellence in everything we do, delivering mission solutions with speed, innovation and flawless execution.

L3Harris is dedicated to recruiting and developing diverse, high-performing talent who are passionate about what they do. Our employees are unified in a shared dedication to our customers’ mission and quest for professional growth. L3Harris provides an inclusive, engaging environment designed to empower employees and promote work-life success. Fundamental to our culture is an unwavering focus on values, dedication to our communities, and commitment to excellence in everything we do.

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions that meet customers’ mission-critical needs. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea and cyber domains. L3Harris has approximately $18 billion in annual revenue and 50,000 employees, with customers in more than 100 countries.

Job Title: Payroll Manager

Job Code: 9074

Job Location: UK – Crawley – West Sussex

We can offer you flexible working practices and a hybrid working pattern, with time in our offices and your home, to enable a good work-life balance

Important to know:

Due to the nature of this role you will need to be a UK nationality and the ability to obtain a security clearance. Applicants who accept a conditional offer of employment must meet the requirement of right to work in the UK and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information and will be subject to government security checks.

About this opportunity and L3Harris UK

From 12 UK sites, our team of over 1,400 people deliver unique capabilities across air, land, sea, space and cyber for military, security and commercial customers, worldwide.

L3Harris Training Systems play a key role on delivering the L3Harris Commercial Aviation Solutions mantra of ‘Creating Safer Skies’. From our computer-based solutions all the way to our state-of-the-art Full Flight Simulators (FFS), improving the training experiencing and creating safer skies is at the heart of everything we do. Our Fixed Training Devices (FTD) and FFS feature aircraft-specific flight decks, offering the form, fit, feel, and function of the actual aircraft.

About the role:

We are looking for a Payroll Manager, to join our payroll team in Crawley. You will take ownership of the day-to-day provision of an efficient payroll function that supports and sustains the business activities, both strategically and operationally, operating within company policies and procedures and complying with legal requirements and meeting the needs of our colleagues ensuring confidence in their pay.

A few of our employee benefits are:

• Hybrid working where possible
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays), increasing with long service and with the opportunity to buy/sell up to 5 days
• Private medical insurance with optional family cover
• Pension scheme of up to 7% employer contribution
• Life Assurance 4x salary (flexible up to 10x)
• Group income protection
• Flexible opt-in extras such as a health care cash plan, dental insurance, gym membership, critical illness cover and cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance program providing mental health and wellbeing support

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide advice and guidance to managers and staff on matters relating to payroll as required.
• Manage monthly UK payroll cycle, responsible for the provision of accurate and timely payroll payments in accordance with current legislation.
• Manage administration and implementation of benefit schemes.
• Monitor the accuracy of all information held in the payroll system (ADP Streamline) especially in regard to all employee lifecycle changes, i.e. starters, leavers, job changes, payroll information, etc.
• Act as first point of contact with ADP. 
• Assist Finance with the monthly payroll related journals, ensuring correct information is provided to reconcile back SAP system.
• Maintain salary sacrifice and taxable benefits within payroll system.
• Prepare forms P11D and PSA as required.
• Project work and any other ad hoc tasks as necessary.

Essential Skills :

• Extensive experience with ADP systems preferred.
• Experience of managing end to end monthly payroll process.
• Strong IT skills, advanced user in Word and Excel and ability to manipulate data
• Excellent planning and organisation skills

What else could be helpful to be successful in this role

• Experience of SAP useful but not essential

As an equal opportunities employer, L3Harris is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join L3Harris.

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