Colas
Location
Birmingham | United Kingdom
Job description
Colas Ltd are a UK subsidiary of the global Colas Group, which operates in over 50 countries worldwide and employs over 55,000 people including over 1500 in the UK across multiple sites. We are specialists in highways construction and have been involved in large-scale UK and international construction projects within the highways, airfields, and marine sectors as well as offering highways maintenance services and manufacturing our own innovative surfacing products. We hold a 'Gold Investor in People' award for continuously developing and rewarding our employees, offering excellent career potential.
Colas is looking for a Payroll Manager to lead, manage, and develop a payroll team of 5 to deliver accurate processing of employee pay and benefits across the Colas Ltd Group, including its Subsidiaries, Allied Infrastructure, and Continental Bitumen for approximately 1400 people. With a continuous improvement mindset, challenge the current way of working, ensuring the systems we have work for us and proactively seek resolution to problems with the relevant provider if required, whilst ensuring compliance against legislation including external statutory reporting and internal business insight.
As a payroll specialist, your primary responsibility will be to ensure the accurate and timely processing of weekly and monthly payrolls. This will involve enrolling your colleagues, paying them accurately, and proactively resolving any queries that arise. You will play a key role in developing the Payroll Team to take ownership of the end-to-end payroll cycle. You will provide cross-functional training to address any shortfalls due to absenteeism, ensuring that the team can operate effectively and efficiently at all times.
In addition to payroll processing, you will be responsible for administering Company benefits and making statutory payments to employees. You will also manage TUPEs and instill a continuous improvement mindset within the team. This will involve identifying areas for improvement and implementing new processes, procedures, and technologies to streamline payroll operations and enhance compliance.
Working closely with the HR Service Team and Third Party Advisors, you will ensure full compliance with current legislation at all times. This will involve staying up-to-date with the latest regulations and best practices and implementing any necessary changes to ensure that the Payroll Team operates within legal and ethical guidelines.
We are looking for someone with experience in using integrated Payroll and Workforce Management Systems, particularly PeopleXD. The ideal candidate should also have experience in managing Directors' Payroll and Salary Sacrifice Schemes, ensuring National Minimum Wage Compliance, working with Benefits Providers, and processing end-of-year payroll. We are looking for someone passionate about employee engagement, who has excellent communication skills (both written and oral), and can adapt to different audiences. Confidentiality and professionalism are also important qualities. Finally, the candidate should have good attention to detail and excellent time management skills.
Here at Colas, we offer a great total compensation package, including:
A salary of up to £50,000 depending on experience
Our Colas Pension Scheme has combined contributions of up to 10%
Life Assurance Scheme which is x4 basic salary
25 days annual leave per year + Public Holidays
Holiday Purchase & Selling Scheme
Hybrid Working Scheme
Opportunities to study towards a fully funded Professional Qualification
Ongoing personal/professional development
Discounts on car leasing, holidays, cinema tickets, restaurants and much more through our online employee benefits portal
As a business, we hold three core values Caring , Sharing and Daring .
We are committed to Caring for our colleagues, promoting, equality and diversity, and maintaining a culture of fairness, transparency, and respect for all employees, clients, communities, suppliers, contractors, and other stakeholders.
We harness a productive environment where talents are being fully utilised and organisational goals are met, Sharing our knowledge and expertise with colleagues to progress and expand on new ideas, promoting trust, responsibility, and solidarity.
Our culture is built on an innovative and pioneering mindset, Daring to welcome new ideas and approaches. We are driven to invest in our employees and encourage them to participate in innovation, moving forward and striving to provide sustainable infrastructure solutions.
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