What You Will Deliver

• Take direct ownership of monthly UK payroll, including processing, reconciliation, statutory reporting and employee queries.
• Review international payroll arrangements, mapping providers, processes, approvals and local requirements.
• Develop and deliver a phased plan to consolidate payroll oversight and improve consistency across markets.
• Strengthen controls, documentation and accountability while maintaining accurate, timely payments.
• Manage local providers and build effective relationships with colleagues across HR, Finance and overseas offices.
• Improve payroll information, cost reporting and alignment with financial processes.
• Support systems changes and the integration of additional businesses as the organisation develops.

What We Are Looking For

You will be an experienced international payroll professional who can move comfortably between operational detail and project delivery.

You should bring:

• Practical ADP experience is essential.
• Strong technical UK payroll expertise and the confidence to run payroll personally.
• Proven responsibility for international payrolls and overseas provider relationships.
• Experience delivering payroll consolidation, systems implementation or substantial process improvement.
• Strong reconciliation, compliance and control knowledge.
• The ability to maintain monthly delivery while progressing a change programme.
• An approachable, confident manner and the credibility to gain support from senior and local stakeholders.

Experience with pensions, taxable benefits and variable remuneration will be valuable. Wider benefits strategy experience would also be welcome.

Why Consider This Role?

You will have the opportunity to build a global payroll function with direct access to the HR leader and visibility across the business.

The project has depth: establishing UK ownership, improving fragmented international arrangements, strengthening reporting and connecting payroll with wider systems and Finance changes.

There is also scope for your remit to evolve through future integrations and broader involvement in reward, systems or operations, depending on your interests and the needs of the business.

For someone who enjoys solving problems, taking ownership and delivering lasting improvements, this offers a varied role with a substantial project to lead.

Middlemore is committed to equal opportunities and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.