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    Payroll Team Leader

    Accounting
    Portfolio Payroll
    Yorkshire, Harrogate
    Permanent
    Competitive
    Remote

    Job Description

    Job Summary

    Portfolio Payroll are currently working with a high end retailer in the Harrogate area who are currently recruiting for a Payroll Team Leader to join their team. They provide an excellent working environment, work from home opportunity and freebies!

    Key Duties/Tasks:

    • Leading a team of 3

    • End to end payroll processing for 1700 staff

    • Distributing workload and day to day team management

    • Technical skills including systems & excel

    • High level technical month reconciliation

    • Support the busy payroll department high volume starters and leavers

    • Experience dealing with multiple payrolls of varying shift patterns

    • Must have very strong Excel as lots of manual processing

    • High volume, fast paced

    • Pension and Autoenrollment

    • Provide comprehensive advice to employees in relation to payroll queries

    • Ensuring all necessary payments are made within the deadlines set, for example Pension Contributions and BACS Salary Payments

    • Manual calculations

    • RTI Submissions

    • Reconciliation of weekly timesheets along with the input of overtime

    • Experience of T & A system useful

    Desirable skills and attributes:

    • Industry experience would be great but not essential

    • Previous senior payroll experience or long term payroll experience in a fast paced and high volume environment

    • People management

    • Accountability

    • A keen eye for detail

    • Enjoy working within a team

    • Strong basic maths skills

    • Confident on the phone

    • Excellent communicator as you will be answering queries

    • Confident with Excel

    • CIPP advantageous not essential

    Benefits

    • Group profit share scheme

    • Pension 3% employer contribution, minium 4% employee contribution

    • 1 x Life Assurance

    • 25% employee discount

    • Free employee Meals and drinks during working hours (when we are in the office)

    • Up to 25 days paid holiday each year plus public holidays

    • Normal working hours are 40 hours per week, 8.30am to 5.30pm with 1 hour unpaid break

    • Hybrid working 3 in 2 at home

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    INDPAYN

    The Portfolio Group are acting on behalf of our client in recruiting for this position.

    Posted on August 12, 2026

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