Posted 21 July, 2026
Payroll Team Leader
Portfolio Payroll
Harrogate, ENG, GB
Full Time
Job Description
Job Summary
\nPortfolio Payroll are currently working with a high end retailer in the Harrogate area who are currently recruiting for a Payroll Team Leader to join their team. They provide an excellent working environment, work from home opportunity and freebies!
\n\nKey Duties/Tasks:
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- Leading a team of 3 \n
- End to end payroll processing for 1700 staff \n
- Distributing workload and day to day team management \n
- Technical skills including systems & excel \n
- High level technical month reconciliation \n
- Support the busy payroll department high volume starters and leavers \n
- Experience dealing with multiple payrolls of varying shift patterns \n
- Must have very strong Excel as lots of manual processing \n
- High volume, fast paced \n
- Pension and Autoenrollment \n
- Provide comprehensive advice to employees in relation to payroll queries \n
- Ensuring all necessary payments are made within the deadlines set, for example Pension Contributions and BACS Salary Payments \n
- Manual calculations \n
- RTI Submissions \n
- Reconciliation of weekly timesheets along with the input of overtime \n
- Experience of T & A system useful \n
Desirable skills and attributes:
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- Industry experience would be great but not essential \n
- Previous senior payroll experience or long term payroll experience in a fast paced and high volume environment \n
- People management \n
- Accountability \n
- A keen eye for detail \n
- Enjoy working within a team \n
- Strong basic maths skills \n
- Confident on the phone \n
- Excellent communicator as you will be answering queries \n
- Confident with Excel \n
- CIPP advantageous not essential \n
Benefits
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- Group profit share scheme \n
- Pension 3% employer contribution, minium 4% employee contribution \n
- 1 x Life Assurance \n
- 25% employee discount \n
- Free employee Meals and drinks during working hours (when we are in the office) \n
- Up to 25 days paid holiday each year plus public holidays \n
- Normal working hours are 40 hours per week, 8.30am to 5.30pm with 1 hour unpaid break \n
- Hybrid working 3 in 2 at home \n
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\nThe Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.
