Payroll Team Leader

About the Role

We’re looking for a Temporary Payroll Team Leader to join our Payroll team at DS Smith’s Business Service Centre in Caerphilly.  This is a key role that focuses on everyday duties around payroll and compliance, and also includes a team leadership element so that you can continue to develop your management skills.

You’ll be responsible for processing monthly payroll of employees, ensuring tax commitments are accurate, and overseeing the preparation and distribution of payslips to employees throughout the UK.  You’ll ensure relevant paperwork is processed in a timely manner, supervise payroll account reconciliations and investigate any discrepancies so that we can remain confident that we’re operating at a high standard.

As a Team Leader, we’ll also be asking you to be a primary point of contact for the business and a source of information so that queries can be resolved quickly and stakeholders can become more knowledgeable.  This will also include mentoring and developing a team of 4, representing the Payroll function in various projects, and driving the development and improvement of our processes so that we can continue to provide a world-class service

.About You

Minimum Requirements:

• Significant experience working in a Payroll team, ideally in a larger business

• Strong Excel knowledge (pivot tables and vlookups)

• Good knowledge of payroll legislation

• Ability to work well with your team and communicate effectively with other stakeholders

• Great attention to detail and an ability to solve problems quickly and accurately

• Previous team leadership experience is desirable

• Workday knowledge would be advantageous

• A payroll-related qualification, such as CIPP, would also be advantageous

Benefits

Additional benefits include:

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

• Pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Income protection

• Employee assistance program

• Cycle to work scheme

• Shopping discounts

• On site parking

Location: Caerphilly

About us

We are DS Smith, together with International Paper, we are a global leader in sustainable packaging solutions and other fibre-based products. We believe a better, more sustainable tomorrow is possible with the right people, who challenge and support one another to enact positive change. We employ more than 65,000 colleagues in North America and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), who are experts in innovation, manufacturing, design, sales, sustainability, supply chain, and much more. Together with our customers, we make the world safer and more productive, one sustainable packaging solution at a time. Become part of a world-leading organisation and do your best work with us!

Fair recruitment at DS Smith

To fulfil our purpose of redefining packaging for a changing world, we aim to build a diverse, motivated, and engaged workforce. Our goal is to create a culture of inclusion where everyone is treated fairly, differences are valued, and everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

Our people come from diverse backgrounds, bring different perspectives, ideas, and experiences to generate unique solutions focused on present and future sustainability challenges. We welcome all candidates to apply, even those not meeting all criteria.