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Payroll Bureau Manager
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
153 days ago
Salary
£45K - £50K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Payroll Bureau Manager
Sona Technologies
• Running end-to-end payrolls for a growing portfolio of enterprise customers with complex payroll requirements (hourly pay rates, overtime, weekly, fortnightly or monthly payrolls). • Being the go-to person for your clients, owning those relationships and giving them confidence in our service • Spotting where we can improve and helping put those improvements into action • Supporting our sales team from time to time as a payroll expert, helping prospective customers understand how our bureau works • Collaborating with teams across Sona, from Implementation and Product to Customer Success and Support • Getting to grips with our HR and WFM platform and how it connects with payroll • Keeping an eye on KPIs, SLAs and compliance to make sure we’re delivering the best possible service • Staying on top of legislation, tools and trends that might impact our payroll service
Job Requirements
- Solid experience processing UK payrolls, ideally in a bureau or outsourced setting
- Strong attention to detail and a love for getting things right, especially when working with numbers
- Good Excel or Google Sheets skills (e.g. VLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, SUM, CONCATENATE)
- Great communication skills, you’re confident talking to customers and building trust
- A proactive, can-do attitude; you spot problems before they happen and enjoy finding ways to solve them
- Proactive and solutions-driven, tackling challenges head-on with a positive attitude.
- Commercially aware and eager to drive improvements, not just follow the status quo.
- Ownership mindset; if it can be done today, don’t wait for tomorrow.
Benefits
- Salary: £45,000 - £50,000
- Remote first (UK based). Travel to the London office or customers required ad-hoc, you can expect to travel at least once a month for team days, meet ups or to see customers.
- Share options
- 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
- Extra day of leave for every year of service
- Pension contributions matched up to 5%
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Enhanced parental leave & pay
- Co-working space stipend for those based outside London
- Bi-annual all expenses paid team retreats
- The latest Macbook and equipment budget for your home office
- Professional development budget
- Unlimited free books
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