Payroll & Finance Specialist
| Posting date: | 19 January 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 January 2026 |
| Location: | Manchester, Greater Manchester, M1 4BT |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4755054_1768821843 |
Summary
Your new company
This established business is seeking a permanent payroll lead to oversee the payroll department, lead strategic projects and process improvement. Your new company is based in central Manchester, with on-site parking and hybrid working hours. This is an excellent opportunity for any team leader or standalone payroll professional.
Your new role
Within your new role, you will process the end-to-end payroll on a monthly basis, whilst also reporting and processing any overseas payroll via local vendors, preparing and posting payroll journals, balance sheet reconciliations for payroll-related accounts, general month-end duties and journal entries.
You will be the payroll lead alongside finance duties, assisting with statutory payment deductions, P60's, P11D's, PSA's, auto enrolment for pension schemes. You will also have a strong proactive approach and communication skills to work with internal stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have both experience of processing payroll and management accountant duties.
*** Visa sponsorship is not available***
What you'll need to succeed
To succeed in this role, you will have previous experience leading in a payroll and come from or have a background in accounting. Have strong end-to-end UK payroll processing, including managing the starters to leavers process and handling any payment deductions, and ideally have a background in accounting. Communicate well with external vendors or internal stakeholders and lead on any strategic projects such as BIK.
What you need to do now
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