Payroll Manager

Reporting to the Head of Transactions, this role will involve overseeing the end-to-end payroll for Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing. This role manages a team of payroll professionals to ensure a timely and accurate service provision for the business. You will deliver results through excellent legislative and process knowledge ensuring best practice is adopted and team performance and development is maximised.

• A high level of personal integrity and be consistent, open and honest.
• Excellent knowledge of UK Payroll statutory regulations and practical application and delivery of this.
• CIPP (or equivalent professional body) qualified.
• Good stakeholder and communication skills with a clear understanding and demonstrable experience of leading a customer focused business facing service.
• Extreme attention to detail and accuracy combined with the ability to prioritize own and team?s work to achieve business and time critical tasks.
• Advance IT literacy and data manipulation and analysis skills.
• Ability to calculate complex payroll calculation manually.
• A relentless drive to improve performance and deliver outstanding results through new, innovative and more effective ways of working.
• Excellent communication skills, works effectively within a team.
• A creative and analytical thinking style, applying tenacity in the face of obstacles.
• A pro-active approach to work and problem solving, and the ability to spot and deal with issues as they occur.
To meet our commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to our customers, we will complete a basic background check with the Disclosure and Barring service once an offer of employment is made.

We are committed to developing and implementing or maintaining sustainability initiatives to reduce environmental impact and promote sustainable practices within MTVH. Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document Our promise Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively ?Serving people better every day? to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve. We are also part of the disability confident employer scheme. We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other?s wellbeing. We provide a platform of Network groups for employees to share views, tell us what we?re doing well and recommend improvements. We want to create a real sense of community and a workforce who feel that their opinions are valued. Our Networks groups are:-
• Gender
• Ethnicity
• LGBTQ+
• Disability
Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!


• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional ?Beliefs day? once a year to have an extra a day off
• Supported family friendly approach with extended parental leave
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Option to buy or sell up to 5 days annual leave per year
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Cycle2work scheme
• Hybrid Working - Dependent on job role and department
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit ? interest free loan to help with rental deposits and season Ticket loan
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring/coaching programmes, apprenticeships and career planning support
• Employee Assistance Programme- We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation