Strategic Payroll Manager - Salford, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom - Zellis

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    About the role
    As a Strategic Payroll Manager for Moorepay you'll be responsible for handling a portfolio of clients, making decisions based on your knowledge and experience, delivering every aspect of the strategic payroll service. You will be a subject matter expert on our payroll and our systems, focused on service delivery and providing a great client experience.
    This role can be based from either our Farnborough or Swinton office on a hybrid basis, with two days per week in the office. In Farnborough these days are typically Tuesday and Wednesday; in Swinton it's Tuesday and Thursday.
    Key responsibilities include:

    • Managing a portfolio of clients, ensuring their payrolls are fulfilled timely, accurately and securely.
    • Answering client queries about their Payroll or Moorepay systems via email and telephone, within service level agreements, striving for client advocacy and first contact resolution.
    • Owning and taking responsibility for the client journey, always ensuring service excellence.
    • Helping clients understand how best to use their Moorepay Software to support their business needs.
    • Sharing knowledge and expertise with onshore and offshore colleagues, striving for a consistent client experience.
    • Managing customers to control quality and format of client input and reduce delays in processing.
    • Working with the Implementation team to proactively manage customer onboarding, through first run into BAU.
    • Meeting departmental and service delivery KPIs and quality standards for the team.
    • Implementing specific improvement plans for individuals, teams or clients when delivery falls below the expected standards.
    • Reviewing and acting upon all customer feedback; acting as a primary point of escalation for the client and making/executing recommendations for improvement.
    • Taking ownership of service improvement initiatives driven out of the Moorepay customer satisfaction surveys.
    • Liaising with internal stakeholders, within Operations, Sales, Client Success, Marketing and Technology, to help manage client payrolls.
    • Using the CRM to record details of all client interactions.
    • Possessing full awareness of specific client requirements and ensuring these are documented within the payroll system.
    • Complete all set tasks accurately and efficiently, adhering to deadlines, instructions, policies and procedures and training as appropriate.
    • Conducting account client reviews.
    • Raising system bugs and improvement ideas with technical support.
    • Working closely with payroll processors (based in Kochi, India).
    • Sharing ideas to help improve processes.
    • Keeping up-to-date with payroll trends, product enhancements, industry developments and HR legislation.
    Skills & experience
    • CIPP qualified or equivalent, or working at that level, with previous experience in delivering fully managed payroll services.
    • Proven ability in building and managing a high performing team - working onshore and offshore preferred.
    • Excellent ability in building positive customer relationships.
    • Proven commercial ability to manage and control budgets.
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
    • Moorepay HR expertise or alternate platforms (desirable), as is experience of operating within an outsourcing service provider.
    • Experience in managing large transition projects (desirable).
    • Eager to learn and develop.
    • Great coaching and mentoring skills.
    • Highly organised and methodical in your approach.
    Benefits & culture
    Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Farnborough and Kochi (India). We're passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself
    To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.
    Here's what you'll gain if you join our team:
    • A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
    • A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
    • Competitive base salary.
    • 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more. You'll even get your birthday off as well
    • Private medical insurance.
    • Life assurance 4x salary.
    • Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
    • A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure