Payroll & Benefits Team Leader

We strive to advance our payroll & benefit operations to create a great employee experience by building robust processes to improve efficiencies and reporting functions to ensure compliance and support across the organization.  

Having created a UK shared service payroll team based at our Wilmslow office supporting 3 UK Businesses for circa 1,000 employees, we continue to advance our Payroll & Benefit structure across Europe and have created a great opportunity for a Payroll Team Leader to join our team to manage the UK Payroll & Benefits operation.  This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to expand their experienced by managing a small payroll team with a key focus on delivering an exceptional service.   

• Ensure that all HMRC submissions are made, payroll reconciliations carried out and all legislative timescales are understood and adhered to.  
• Experience running all aspects of a payroll function, including HMRC Legislation   
• Company policies and employee benefits are managed in line with Waters guidelines  
• Support the Payroll Manager through the continuous improvement, development and coordination of processes and procedures.  
• The ability to manage the payroll and benefits systems, with the aim of providing improvements along with an excellent employee experience.  
• Liaise with the internal and external auditors in a timely manner  
• Maintain a proactive continuous professional understanding of statutory and payroll changes 
• Undertake day to day line management of the UK team, including, one to one’s, conducting appraisals, overseeing their development, whilst promoting the shared service ethos.  
• Manage pension administration, auto enrolment and interface with pension providers.  

Education:  

• Certified Payroll Professional qualification – CIPP or equivalent.    

 Experience:   

• Experience in the use of ADP IHCM software or similar product.  

• Ability to calculate manual pay slips 
• Knowledge of stock option and restricted stock unit schemes is an advantage.  
• Understanding in the operation of a benefit administration systems  

Competencies:  

• Exceptional attention to detail  
• Excellent, professional and clear verbal and written communication skills   
• Strong organisational and time-management skills 

In addition to salary, we work flexibly and provide 25 days holidays, excellent family friendly benefits such as attractive employer pension contribution, life assurance, income protection and private medical. With Waters, there are plenty of opportunities for you to grow, develop and contribute.  

We're actively building diverse teams and welcome applications from everyone. But simply having a diverse workforce is not enough. We aim to build an inclusive environment, where everyone can contribute their best work and develop to their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of teams reflecting the communities they serve.  

We can make reasonable adjustments to our interview process according to your needs. We are proud to offer our employees the opportunity, where we can, to work flexibly.  Please don’t hesitate to ask during the recruitment process around hybrid working and flexibility; we’ll do our best to support you.  

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.