Group Payroll Manager

Carrington Wood; St. Austell; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist recruitment consultancy is seeking a skilled Group Payroll Manager for a permanent position near St Austell. The role entails managing payroll processes, ensuring compliance, and supporting HR functions across multiple business units. Candidates should have strong payroll experience, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to handle financial controls. This position offers a competitive salary between £35,000 and £40,000 and a supportive working environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Supportive working environment

Opportunity for ownership of payroll processes

Qualifications

• Experience in a multi-site environment is preferred.
• Solid understanding of pensions and statutory compliance is necessary.
• Confident handling reconciliations and financial controls required.

Responsibilities

• Manage weekly and monthly payrolls for multiple business units.
• Ensure accurate employee data and department allocations.
• Oversee pension administration and submissions.
• Handle third-party reporting and payment obligations.
• Maintain accurate personnel files and employee documentation.

Skills

Strong payroll experience

Understanding of payroll legislation

Financial controls

Attention to detail

Strong communication skills

Ability to work cross-functionally

Adaptability

Job description

Group Payroll Manager – St Austell – Permanent
💰 Salary: £35,000 – £40,000
📍 Location: Near St Austell
🕒 Hours: 40 hours, Onsite
📅 Start: ASAP

Are you an experienced payroll professional who thrives in a fast-paced, multi-entity environment? Do you enjoy taking ownership of payroll processes, ensuring compliance, and supporting a smooth HR operation? If so, this could be an excellent next step.

Carrington Wood is delighted to be working with our client to recruit a Group Payroll Manager. This is a hands‑on, varied role that plays a key part in ensuring accurate payroll delivery, strong internal controls, and effective employee support across the group.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Running weekly and monthly payrolls across multiple business units
• Ensuring accurate employee data, department allocation, and cost centre management
• Managing holiday calendars, entitlements, and reporting issues to senior management
• Overseeing pension administration and statutory/governing body submissions
• Handling third‑party reporting and payment obligations
• Issuing employment contracts and time‑related documentation, following through to completion
• Supporting HR with ad‑hoc administration and compliance tasks
• Delivering payroll‑related balance sheet reconciliations, including PAYE, pensions, net wages, deposits, and deductions
• Maintaining accurate personnel files and employee documentation
• Managing access fob distribution, returns, and reconciliation
• Distributing employee hours reports and ensuring time & attendance accuracy with department managers
• Providing general administrative support, including handling queries

What We’re Looking For:

• Strong payroll experience, ideally within a multi‑site environment
• Solid understanding of payroll legislation, pensions, and statutory compliance
• Confident handling reconciliations and financial controls
• Highly organised with excellent attention to detail
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross‑functionally
• Proactive, adaptable, and comfortable managing a varied workload

Why You’ll Love This Role:

• Competitive salary between £35,000 and £40,000
• Key role supporting multiple areas of a growing business
• Opportunity to take ownership of payroll processes and compliance
• Varied and interesting workload with daily impact
• Supportive, friendly working environment

📅 Apply now for a confidential conversation about this Group Payroll Manager opportunity near St Austell.

Carrington Wood is a specialist recruitment consultancy supporting organisations across Cornwall, Devon, and the wider South West. We recruit across Finance, Administration, HR, Customer Service, and Business Development on both a temporary and permanent basis.