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Payroll Manager
Head of UK Payroll, Compensation & Benefits
About the Role
You will lead the end-to-end UK payroll, compensation, and benefits processes, ensuring accurate and timely delivery through an outsourced model while maintaining strong governance and compliance.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage multiple UK payrolls, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance
- Own payroll inputs, controls, reconciliations, and year-end activities
- Manage outsourced payroll providers and ensure SLA delivery
- Partner with HR and Finance to ensure smooth process integration
- Oversee benefits administration and support salary review cycles
- Ensure correct payroll data, taxation, and HMRC compliance
- Act as a Workday/payroll data expert, ensuring data integrity and system efficiency
- Drive process improvements, controls, and audit readiness
- Act as the main contact for payroll queries, ensuring clear communication and issue resolution
Your Background
Essential Experience & Skills
- Strong experience in a standalone or senior UK payroll role
- Deep knowledge of UK payroll legislation (PAYE, NI, statutory payments)
- Experience managing outsourced payroll providers
- Familiarity with HR/payroll systems (ideally Workday) and strong Excel skills
- Strong analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills
- High attention to detail, integrity, and ability to work independently
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Proactive, solution-oriented mindset
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About Prysmian
Prysmian , as an Equal Opportunity Employer, aims to attract and recruit individuals with diverse backgrounds, skills, and abilities. We strongly believe that diversity brings significant value at all levels of the organization, increasing the possibility of capturing market opportunities and maximizing value for our customers and stakeholders.
With Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) as part of our Social Ambition 2030 and a strategic pillar of our company culture, Prysmian is committed to developing an organization that prioritizes talent, where people feel respected, included, and free to fully express their potential.
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DE&I Commitments
All Managers and HR teams at Prysmian are responsible for ensuring DE&I policies are respected during the recruiting process and addressing unconscious biases. All applicants will be considered for employment with no regard to:
- Race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, origin
- Citizenship status, socio-economic status, age
- Sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation
- Marital status, disability, military service, veteran status
- Pregnancy, parental leave, medical conditions
- Any other characteristic protected by law
Prysmian will provide reasonable accommodations for disclosed physical or neurological conditions, where feasible.
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