Professional Lead – Pension Fund Payroll
- Location: Trowbridge (2–3 days onsite per week)
- Contract Length: 3 months
- Rate: £350–£450 per day (Umbrella)
Overvi
ewAn experienced Payroll professional is required to lead the delivery of pension payroll services for a large Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) fund. This is a hands-on leadership role responsible for ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll operations, while driving continuous improvement across systems and processes. The role will oversee a small team and act as the subject matter expert for pension payroll, working closely with internal stakeholders, auditors, and system team
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Key Responsibili
- tiesLead the end-to-end delivery of pension payroll services, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and adherence to critical deadli
- nes.Manage and support a small payroll team, including workload planning, performance oversight, and developm
- ent.Ensure payroll processes comply with relevant legislation, HMRC requirements, and LGPS regulati
- ons.Oversee payroll for c.20,000 pensioners, including monthly payroll and ad-hoc payments such as lump sums and death benef
- its.Develop and improve payroll policies, procedures, and controls to enhance efficiency and reduce r
- isk.Act as the key contact for internal and external audit activities, ensuring all recommendations are addres
- sed.Lead on system utilisation and improvements (including Altair payroll), ensuring effective testing, configuration, and implementation of chan
- ges.Resolve complex payroll issues and provide expert advice on technical queries and legislative interpretat
- ion.Collaborate with finance, systems, and wider pension teams to ensure seamless service deliv
- ery.Represent the organisation at regional or national forums on payroll-related matt
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Key Requir
- ementsExtensive experience within payroll, ideally within LGPS or public sector pension environ
- ments.Strong understanding of payroll legislation, compliance, and audit require
- ments.Proven experience leading or supervising payroll
- teams.Experience working with payroll systems (Altair highly desir
- able).Strong analytical and problem-solving s
- kills.Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication s
- kills.Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to tight dead
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- esirableExperience within Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) envi
- ronmentsKnowledge of pension payroll processing and fund admini
- strationExperience of process improvement or transformation ini
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