Payroll Manager, Policy Expert
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2+ days a week in office
Digital home & car insurance provider
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Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be the most successful insurance provider that people want to stay with for life. This will be achieved by creating proprietary technology that allows us to offer honest, transparent and easy to understand products.
Role
Who you are
- Previous payroll management experience, demonstrable success in a similar role
- Accurate documenting skills and attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills needed to convey complex payroll matters to all levels of the
- Competent IT skills, particularly proficiency with payroll software
- You’re analytical and comfortable in dealing with data/numbers
- You’re used to forecasting, budgeting, and reporting on key business data
- You’re able to meet deadlines by having strong time management skills
- You’re a motivated self-starter and passionate people manager, that’s keen to make a difference
- You’re confident and used to presenting data in an interesting way
- You’re an effective influencer that can manage stakeholders
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skill
- You’re a good organiser who is level-headed under pressure
What the job involves
- As our Payroll Manager, you will be responsible for providing dedicated pay and reward expertise and professional guidance to our colleagues
- This role will be responsible for ensuring all policies, processes and procedures relating to payroll and employment tax are reviewed and maintained in line with legislation
- You will play a vital role in safeguarding the financial wellbeing of the company and ensuring our colleagues are paid accurately and on time
- Your goal will be maintaining compliance and streamlining payroll procedures for efficiency
- Develop and enhance robust systems to process payroll transactions
- Collating data from payroll sources and maintain payroll records
- Oversee processing of payroll changes (New Hires, promotions, and system upgrades)
- Maintaining contact with the external payroll provider for the UK, submitting the data for the monthly payroll process, reviewing the preliminary reports, and approving the final version of the pay slips
- Ensuring all starter and leaver paperwork is processed in a timely manner, depending on local requirements
- Arrange weekly, monthly, quarterly, and year-end reports
- Administer benefit plans
- Maintain the Payroll inbox and respond to online and in person queries
- Ensure payroll is completed in an accurate and timely manner
- Preparation of payroll related documents
- Maintain accurate account balances
- Ensure all payroll information and records are maintained in accordance with statutory requirements and support internal and external audits related as such
- Resolve issues relating to payroll from colleagues
- Advising team members about taxes and employment laws on Salary
- Calculating wage increments, pension, overtime payments and public holiday pay
- Processing pension uploads and queries
- Issuing bank transfers for employee payments
- Analysing and reporting on payroll data
- Auditing the payroll to make sure it satisfies all government regulations
- Developing and leading the refining of payroll procedures
- Responsible for filing P45s, P60s, P11Ds
- Contractor timesheets and filing
- You will naturally inspire the colleagues around you and look to empower our people in an environment where they are recognised for their contribution. You will lead with your desire to put people first and actively seek out opportunities to add value and be creative
Application process
- We aim to contact you within 14 working days of your application. You will be notified if your application is successful or unsuccessful
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1M home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Now, with Cinven acquiring a majority shareholder, Policy Expert is in a great position to further accelerate its growth and expand even further in the years to come.
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Intelligent people
"My colleagues have high attention to detail and explain their decisions and viewpoints very well. It's inspiring to work with teammates with high..."
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Adam Powell
(Co-Founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
Steve Hardy
(CEO)Previously a Non Executive Director at Roojai, QMetric Group, C-Quence.
People progressing
Paul started as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis and in 2025 further promoted to Senior Product Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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