Payroll & Benefits Manager

Vacancy - Payroll & Benefits Manager

Are you an experienced Payroll & Benefits professional excited by the opportunity to work in a fast paced environment?  Are you driven by delivering the highest standards of advice to line managers and employees? We are seeking a Payroll & Benefits Manager to join our team in Liverpool and help us keep the world moving!

Your role

This role reports to the Head of Transactional HR and is required to actively manage both weekly and monthly payroll activity along with the Group’s compensation and benefits scheme. Providing efficient support and guidance to the wider payroll team, ensuring a professional and compliant approach at all times.

In this role you’ll be responsible for leading, managing and developing the Group’s payroll function, bringing in best practice and process improvements, whilst keeping abreast and adhering to continuously changing payroll legislation by studying existing and new legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management of updates that need to be complied with.

Manage the Group’s compensation and benefits offering, including life assurance and private medical insurance, along with all salary sacrifice benefits.

You will be fully up to date of all Company policies and procedures to deliver the highest standards of HR and Payroll advice to employees, whilst ensuring all Payroll records and information is filed appropriately and in line with GDPR legislation.

What you'll bring

You will have previous experience of working in a payroll environment with strong people management skills.You will have a customer service focus with the ability to work to deadlines and changing priorities. Strong attention to detail is a must as well as excellent organisational skills and advanced knowledge and experience of MS Office, particularly Excel.

You will have excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate professionally and effectively with internal and external stakeholders.  You will have the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment whilst ensuring accuracy of work and have a ‘right first time’ approach.

Who are we?

Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator.  We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers.  Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040.  Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.

What we can offer you

In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers.  Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:

• 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
• Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
• Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
• Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required

If you believe you have the skills and experience we are seeking and you want to join a thriving and ambitious place to work, we’d really like to hear from you!

Closing date for receipt of completed applications is 11th February 2025.