Mamas & Papas
Payroll and Benefits Manager
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Overview
For over 45 years, Mamas & Papas has supported parents from our Huddersfield roots to stores and concessions across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Today, 1,200+ colleagues bring our much-loved baby brand to life, including 300+ at our Huddersfield head office.
As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a detail-driven Payroll & Benefits Manager to lead payroll, benefits, pensions and employment tax compliance, creating an accurate, reassuring colleague experience.
What You’ll Be Doing
- You’ll own the end-to-end payroll, benefits and pensions cycle, ensuring colleagues are paid accurately, on time and compliantly.
- Lead payroll operations, provider management, controls, reconciliations, reporting and audit readiness.
- Manage PAYE, NI, statutory payments, PSA, P11D, benefits taxation and HMRC submissions.
- Oversee pensions, auto-enrolment, salary exchange, deductions and provider submissions.
- Manage core benefits including medical, life assurance, pension, EV, cycle to work and wellbeing schemes.
- Support confidential colleague queries while improving payroll, benefits and pension processes.
What You’ll Bring As Pay & Benefits Manager
- Strong payroll management experience, ideally in a fast-paced, multi-site or retail business.
- Excellent UK payroll, PAYE, pensions, PSA, P11D and employment tax knowledge.
- Advanced Excel, strong analysis skills and confidence using payroll and HR systems.
- Clear communication, stakeholder management and excellent attention to detail.
- Experience of the PeopleXD system (and HRIS system part of Access Group) being more than desirable.
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Why join Mamas & Papas?
We’re an award-winning, much-loved brand where quality, care and customer experience sit at the heart of everything we do.
If you combine technical payroll expertise with care, curiosity and a passion for great colleague experience, we’d love to hear from you so take those amazing first steps and APPLY TODAY.
NOTE: This role is based at our Huddersfield, West Yorkshire Head Office (HD5 0RH) 3 days a week, with 2 days from home.
Benefits
We're a business that cares. Here's just some of our benefits on offer;
- 33 days holiday, increasing up to 40 with service.
- Buy & Sell holiday schemes
- Company Bonus Schemes
- Employer pension contribution from day 1 enrolment.
- Significant staff discounts for family & friends from our shops & online
- Ongoing offers & discounts across a variety of external organisations, from holidays, travel, restaurants, gifts & services to many more worthy discounts through our Benefits Hub
- Subsidised health & critical illness cover and insurances
- Supportive family related leave policies (including company enhanced pay for maternity, IVF & Fertility, surrogacy, paternity, adoption, shared parental leave)
- Supportive Foster Care & Carers Leave offering
- Support for Loss and Bereavement
- A Menopause Friendly Employer
- Employee Recognition and Appreciation Schemes
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At Mamas & Papas, we’re a business for the future. Every day, we help to welcome a new generation of children into the world, and we want them to grow up in a world that’s sustainable – one that’s full of opportunity and hope. Oh, and a great bunch of people to work with too.
We also operate at Head Office:
- Hybrid flexi office working with 2 days working from home
- Flexi-time schemes based around core working hours whether in the office, or working from home
- Plus, free car parking, Prayer & Contemplation room, subsidised canteen, free tea & coffee, Games & TV rooms & much more.
(NB*: All benefits subject to individual schemes criteria & terms)
Mamas & Papas (Head Office)
Colne Bridge Road,
Huddersfield,
West Yorkshire
HD5 0RH
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