Assistant Payroll Manager, Immediate Start

Job Description

Company: Live Nation

Department: Finance

Location: Farringdon, London (hybrid, ideally 3 days from the office)

Reports to: Payroll Manager

Working Hours: Full time, 40 hours per week . Fixed term contract. Expected duration, 6 months.

Role Description

The Assistant Payroll Manager will be responsible for overseeing the continuity of processing all Live Nation UK payrolls across the Live Nation Entertainment group, covering approximately 700 salaried and 1500 hourly paid employees. Working with the Payroll Manager, you will be required to support the business on all aspects of the payroll, maintain processes, procedures and customer service levels. Experience of dealing with HMRC and its legal processes is essential.

Live Nation UK will be migrating to a new payroll system in the coming months, the Assistant Payroll Manager will support the current payroll team and the wider business during this period of change, a good understanding of ADP Freedom would be very advantageous and Workday HR is desirable.

What it's like to work in the Team
Our team builds strong and trustworthy relationships at all levels across multiple departments. We are diverse and inclusive, ensuring everyone's opinion is heard on the road to succeeding in our shared goals. Support is always on hand through the expert knowledge of our colleagues or our sense of togetherness as a team, allowing us to draw on all resources to achieve our targets or deadlines.

Who you are

Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience

Essential
• Experience processing payroll on ADP Freedom would be very advantageous
• Experience working with a 3rd party payroll provider
• Experience working with multiple payroll companies simultaneously. ( Currently there are 14 PAYE References incorporating 51 individual paygroups .)
• Excellent technical payroll knowledge
• Strong systems skills with a good working knowledge of Excel
• Great attention to detail
• Strong customer service skills
• Current knowledge of HMRC legislation and statutory requirements, and ability to share this with different audiences within the business
• Able to plan and deliver payroll requirements each tax year, such as National Minimum Wage increases, Festival and venues casual staff, annual salary reviews/bonuses, tax year end and P11d processing
• Thorough experienced-based knowledge of payroll processing including PAYE, RTI, auto-enrolment of pensions, statutory payments and will be adept at using industry specific payroll software packages
• Effective communication skills with varying stakeholders across the business

Desirable
• Experience using Workday HR
• Experience with Causal employees
• CIPP qualification or diploma in payroll management
• Previous supervisory experience in a payroll bureau

Behaviours

The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
• The ability to effectively solve problems and work with the Payroll Manager to prevent future reoccurrences
• To be flexible in working times to accommodate timetable for payroll cycle
• Eager to continually learn to keep pace with changes in payroll legislation and best practice
• Ability to work accurately with attention to detail
• Analytical with great problem-solving skills
• Ability to come to the London office for hybrid working

You may have previously held jobs such as: Payroll Specialist, Payroll Assistant, Payroll Manager, Payroll Supervisor or Payroll Coordinator.

What the role includes
• Responsibility for ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time in line with agreed deadlines
• First point of contact for all management queries around payroll
• Checking pre-commit payroll reports supporting sign-off with 8 separate finance controllers/directors.
• Attend monthly operational and Tracking Log calls with ADP – to provide regular updates to the UK HR team where applicable
• Collaborating with key stakeholders in HR, Finance and ADP to plan and implement changes in line with the strategic direction of the business
• Ensuring all relevant payroll data is recorded in line with current HMRC legislation i.e. BACS/CHAPS payments made outside payroll, sickness, maternity/paternity and changes to National Minimum Wage/National Living Wage
• Manage payroll year-end, P60 despatch and delivery. Effectively resolve all management queries and where necessary employee pay queries with support from our outsourced payroll provider
• Quarterly audit reviews of all ADP users and MSPM documents to ensure compliance in readiness for annual internal audit
• Consulting with third parties such as our pension and benefit providers to ensure accurate system alignment, and maintaining this in quarterly reviews
• Supporting the Payroll Manager during system implementation project to ensure day-to-day operation is unaffected. < list responsibilities >

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The Company

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide.  Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g6e25j-3-145-115-195-42 in your application.