Head of Pay and Benefits

Role Overview & Responsibilities

We are working with a prestigious FM company to recruit a Head of Pay & Benefits to join the business. Reporting to the HR Director, this role is responsible for initiating and leading tasks and processes, taking responsibility and being accountable, where relevant, for the work and roles of others whilst exercising broad autonomy and judgement within broad parameters in their area of responsibility.

Reporting to the HRD, initially, this role will focus on supporting the integration and migration of a number of business units/delegations into Kheops SAP software throughout 2023 and 2024.

As part of this convergence, the role will be responsible for the establishment, application and management of consistent pay and benefits policies and packages for all employees and IR35 third parties across the new UK Division which support business objectives and the Common Language as well as meeting all legal requirements.

This role will also have responsibility for the management of 2 separate payroll teams across 2 locations (1 basked in Horsham and 1 based in Watford, totalling 12 employees).

Responsibilites:

• Supporting the systems development for the change in payroll for all employees to Kheops by April 2024. This includes overseeing the team running parallel pay runs to ensure accuracy during the migration.

• Working with the HRD and EXCOM to develop and implement an appropriate Pay & Benefits strategy for the new UK Division. This includes establishing the “Third Way” - a convergence of bringing together the various different benefit strategies and packages.

• Managing the 2 payroll teams to ensure a compliant and accurate payroll function.

• Keeping abreast of law changes, tax directives and other information relating to Payroll by doing research, obtaining updates and gathering information through appropriate channels such as Payroll Institutions and Regulatory Bodies.

• Managing annual contractual and voluntary benefits campaigns.

• Work in positive partnership with other departments, such as Pensions and Insurance, to carry out any fit and gap analysis as requested between delegations and help ensure that any new benefits are fully scoped, costed and delivered as agreed.

Skills/Qualifications needed:

• Come from a business, HR, payroll or finance background, with embedded relevant managerial experience. Related professional qualifications would be an advantage but not essential

• Be highly commercial and able to align reward policy to business objectives

• Have experience of managing a team of people in a multi-site environment

• Be able to evidence excellent project management skills

• Have a very high degree of analytical skills

We recognises the importance of helping our employees balance their work and home life by offering flexible working arrangements across many of our roles which include working from home to enable employees to balance their working life with other priorities.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent, Temporary contract
Contract length: 18 months

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Profit sharing
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person