Payroll Team Manager

Payroll Team Manager 
£35,000 to £45,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 6A)
Full time 37.5 hours a week, Monday to Friday
Manchester city centre – hybrid working 

We’re looking for a Team Manager to join our Payroll team in Manchester.

In this role, you’ll manage a busy team of around 9 colleagues, whose job it is to make sure every colleague is paid the right amount at the right time. The team use Oracle Fusion to process the salaries for approximately 70,000 Co-op employees and pensioners on a 4-week cycle, so they have a big job on their hands. 

What you’ll do

• Take responsibility for all line management duties for a team of Payroll colleagues, including onboarding, performance management and individual development
• Act as the escalation point for members of your team with complex queries
• Maintain payroll processes and standards, working closely with your team to make sure pay accuracy is above 99%
• Manage payroll compliance under audit, data privacy and data protection guidelines and regulations and check/sign-off of year-end reporting
• Make sure that the business complies with payroll legislation and that reporting and payments are completed.

This role would suit people who have 

• Good general IT skills with the ability to use programmes in the Microsoft Office Suite
• The ability to mentor and support a team to achieve great results in a busy environment
• Excellent customer service skills
• CIPP or equivalent Payroll qualification

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme at Disability Confident Scheme - Co-op Colleagues and more about our commitments to diversity and inclusion at Diversity and Inclusion