Payroll Manager

Job Description

Agincare, one of the UK’s largest care providers, has an exciting career opportunity for an experienced Payroll Manager to join our finance team, based at our Head Office in Portland, Dorset situated on the beautiful Jurassic Coast.

We require a payroll specialist with the vision to build and develop a ‘best in class’ payroll function that is scalable and aligned with Agincare’s growth plans.  They will have strong team management skills, leadership experience and be familiar with large, complex payrolls covering multiple sites, companies and employee types.  Ideally with a record of simplifying and improving processes and systems.

What’s on Offer

Agincare is a family run organisation that is proud of its values and strives to  deliver the highest levels of care to our service users. Working at Agincare brings many benefits including …

• Very competitive salary to be discussed depending on experience 
• Fully funded training and career development 
• Blue Light discount package (superb discounts on travel, leisure, entertainment and more)
• EAP - Employee Assistance Program (offering support for employees and their families)
• Company pension scheme
• Staff appreciation incentives; Internal competitions to win prizes such as vouchers, holidays, extra annual leave
• Refer a friend scheme up to £1000

About the Role

The Payroll Manager will lead a team of six, ensuring pay is processed on time and accurately for almost 4,000 colleagues across the group. They will also be responsible for Agincare’s compliance with all government payroll regulations, especially in the area of National Minimum Wage rules.

Key Duties;

• Lead, support and develop the payroll team
• Continually review and improve payroll processes and systems
• Work closely with HR and Operations to ensuring the accuracy of payroll data
• Work closely with the accounting team to ensure payroll accounts are posted correctly
• Oversee all HMRC submissions and payments
• Oversee all Pension submissions and payments
• Preparing and maintaining accurate records and reports of payroll transactions
• Regularly auditing payroll to check compliance with relevant regulations
• Lead on any payroll related projects

About You

• You must have a comprehensive understanding of Payroll and Tax/NI issues
• Previous experience in managing a team, with good organisational and planning skills
• Good interpersonal skills and ability to build strong professional relationships
• CIPP level 5 (minimum) or equivalent
• Experience with Iris Payrite and NetSuite would be a distinct advantage
• An understanding of the health and social care sector is desirable 

About Agincare

We’re a family run business caring for people since 1986.

With over 4,000 team members, we’re one of the UK’s largest care providers and are continuing to grow. We have nearly 100 locations across our care homes, home care branches and live-in offices – there really is something for everyone.

Agincare are signatories of the Care Leaver Covenant and are committed to supporting care leavers to live independently.

Agincare are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.