Payroll Team Leader

Posting date:	17 February 2026
Salary:	£34,816 per year
Additional salary information:	National: £34,816 London: £37,008
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	03 March 2026
Location:	London
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	449208/2

Summary

In the Department of Health and Social Care, we are proud of our purpose – to enable everyone to live more independent, healthier lives for longer. To achieve this, and create a great place to work, we have four values: we are inclusive, we constantly improve, we challenge, and we are agile. If this sounds like an environment you would like to work in, we would love to hear from you.

This is a business-focused operational delivery role, offering a fantastic opportunity to have an impact on the way we deliver Payroll services across the organisation. This role will require the successful individual to full time or 0.8 FTE as a minimum.

As Payroll Team Leader, you will be part of the HR and Payroll Operations leadership team, responsible for delivering a range of customer focused employee services across the Department of Health and Social Care. Our role is to:

Deliver an accurate and timely payroll service in a fast-paced environment, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time every month

Work as part of a senior team to ensure compliance across payroll, pensions and benefit services

Review processes and ways of working to improve the employee experience and team efficiency.

HR Payroll Services is a fast-paced, dynamic, and demanding environment, where our team is committed to putting customers at the heart of everything we do. We collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across the department, including employees, managers, HR teams, business areas, and third-party providers such as our payroll bureau and benefit providers.

We are dedicated to fostering a high-performance culture, continually refining, and embedding new ways of working to drive continuous improvement.

As an experienced payroll professional, you will have experience of leading or supervising a team with a strong focus on customer service and efficient delivery.

In this role you will be responsible for the quality and timeliness of our monthly payroll cycle, working with the team to ensure the accurate processing of our permanent and temporary data, checking processes, reconciliation work and liaising with our benefit and pensions providers.

You will perform monthly payroll comparison checks to ensure pay elements and disparities are justified or addressed, ensuring the service meets the needs of the business and our customers.

You will also oversee complex cases and support the team with general queries working with the Reward Team, HR Operations and the wider department, ensuring resolution in a timely manner.

You will be responsible for the integrity of data in our systems, ensuring our processes are followed and continuously improved to ensure compliance and exemplary data management. There is a strong focus on improving the customer experience and overall efficiency.

You will also collaborate with other teams across the department in completing audit and other reporting requirements, including General Ledger reconciliations, within strict deadlines.

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