Group Payroll Manager

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.