Payroll Manager

Temporary Payroll Manager

📍 Location: Digbeth (with the option to be based at Longbridge alongside the HR team)
⏰ Hours: Full-time or part-time considered
💷 Rate: Competitive hourly rate, dependent on experience and availability
📅 Contract: Temporary 

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Payroll Manager to support our payroll team during the implementation of a new payroll system. This is a key role focused on coordinating activities, managing timelines, and ensuring a smooth transition throughout the implementation process.

The successful candidate will work closely with payroll, HR, and key stakeholders to oversee actions, resolve issues, and help drive the project to a successful conclusion.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the payroll team with the implementation of a new payroll system.
• Coordinate project actions and ensure deadlines are met.
• Act as a key point of contact between payroll, HR, and system providers.
• Monitor progress and escalate risks or issues where required.
• Support testing, data validation, and process improvements.
• Ensure payroll processes continue to operate effectively throughout the implementation.
• Provide guidance and support to the wider payroll team.

Requirements

Essential

• Proven experience managing payroll operations.
• Experience within public sector and working with West Midlands Pension Fund
• Previous involvement in payroll system implementations or upgrades.
• Strong project coordination and organisational skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.

Desirable

• Experience working closely with HR teams.
• Knowledge of payroll legislation and best practice.
• Experience with system testing, data migration, or change management.

What's on Offer?

• Flexible working arrangement with full-time or part-time hours considered.
• Choice of working from either Digbeth or Longbridge.
• Opportunity to play a key role in a significant payroll transformation project.
• Competitive hourly rate based on experience and expectations.

If you have a strong payroll background and experience supporting system implementations, we'd love to hear from you.