Client Payroll Team Lead

Client Payroll Team Lead, Remote, UKWe have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Payroll professional to manage one of our Client Payroll teams. This position is important as you'll be responsible for leading and developing a team of Payroll Executives to ensure the accurate delivery of a 1st class payroll service by ensuring clients’ payrolls are run in an accurate, efficient, and effective way.As a Client Payroll Team Lead, your responsibilities will be as follows: - Managing, supporting and mentoring a team of Payroll Executives to include regular 1-2-1s, ‘Year In Reviews’ and carrying out regular team meetings - Authorising holiday requests to ensure there is adequate cover within the team - Logging and managing team sickness - Providing support to the payroll team using your knowledge on various specialist areas, e.g. workplace pensions, manual payroll calculations, importing payroll data and client accounts - Working with Team Leads to ensure the payroll allocations are up-to-date and to include the allocation of new clients within the team - Leading projects identified by Regional Operations Manager - Keeping up-to-date with new payroll legislations and compliance and ensure the changes are communicated within the team - Identifying areas where improvements can be made and put forward suitable recommendations for changing the payroll process - Ensuring the daily BACS is submitted for IRIS Payroll Professional - Keeping up-to-date with upgrades and developments within payroll software updates - Monitoring KPIs and risk register - Attending client meetings when required. - Acting as a point of contact for any escalations - Managing a small portfolio of clients - Deputising for the Regional Operations Manager when required - Any other duties as may from time to time be reasonably required.

The successful candidate will: - Hold a CIPP Diploma or equivalent (desirable) - Significant payroll processing experience - Education sector experience (desirable) - Intermediate user of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel & Outlook - Experience of IRIS Payroll Professional (Desirable) - Experience working in a payroll bureau/outsourcing service (desirable).

About IRISAs one of the UK’s largest privately held software companies, IRIS Software Group exists to simplify the lives of businesses, schools and organisations.IRIS provides software solutions and services that substantially enhance operational compliance, efficiency and accuracy, empowering the users of our technology to look forward with certainty and confidence.

Over 4 million parents use our software to connect with their child’s school, 18% of UK employees are paid via an IRIS payroll solution, 50,000 SMEs use IRIS cloud bookkeeping and 21,000 firms rely on us for legislative compliance.

Our operational software is the invisible but essential beating heart of our customers’ businesses, supporting them in a range of objectives, from maintaining legislative compliance to boosting engagement with stakeholders and enhancing productivity. It’s vital these mission-critical functions work first time, every time. That’s why IRIS helps businesses run the tough stuff, stay compliant and get operational tasks done right first time, every time – so they can focus on productivity and growth.

IRIS is a company built on hiring the best people; our people are our greatest assets.They enable us to be the innovative, market-leading, and high-performing company that we are today. We’re delighted to be certified as a Great Place to Work and one of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women. These accolades confirm that our employees have a consistently positive experience at IRIS, with the certifications considering employee wellbeing, diversity and inclusion, trust in management, effective communication and recognition/reward.IRIS is committed to engaging, rewarding and empowering our employees, and this is central to what we do. This is why we work to create an environment where employees feel like they are part of a team.