Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world..

This role holds leadership and accountability for the effective operation of five entities payroll, overseeing the relationship between the in-house payroll team and a third-party payroll provider to ensure accurate and timely monthly delivery. The position also supports the preparation of foreign payrolls for France and Sweden and plays a key role in driving continuous improvement across payroll-related processes, controls, and systems.

 Key Responsibilities

• • Solely manage the four outsourced UK payrolls (covering 700 people total).
  • Maintain compliance with company and statutory regulations through robust local control environment, ensuring accuracy and all payroll and HMRC deadlines are adhered to.
  • Take ownership of complex and technical issues and queries.
  • Advise the People team and wider stakeholders on options and risks for a range of business decisions.
  • Cultivate relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Liaise directly with HR to ensure all monthly variables are input correctly to the Change Note and to drive the timely resolution of any payroll queries arising.
  • Process any payroll changes in Cascade as required, including but not limited to new starters, leavers, zero hours employees, overtime, referrals, maternity, sickness etc.
  • Work closely with third party payroll processor.
  • Work closely with benefits manager for annual and monthly benefits selection payroll processing.
  • Work closely with finance colleagues for monthly and period payroll-related activities including production of PSA, maintenance of control accounts and payroll journal .
  • Oversee the processing of P60s, P45s, and P11ds.
  • Continuous improvement of payroll related controls and elements including payroll procedures, business continuity plans, approaches to delivering a modern payroll function, simplification of legacy approaches.

Key Competencies and Experience

• In-depth understanding of payroll processes and compliance.
• Ability to see the big picture while diving into details as needed.
• High level of discretion and experience handling confidential information.
• Strong decision-making skills.
• Excellent organizational and time management abilities.
• Flexibility, agility, and resilience.
• Collaborative and a team player.
• Effective communication skills across all levels.
• Strong relationship-building skills with the People and Finance department.
• Advanced Excel skills for the manipulation of large volumes of data
• CIPP Degree in Payroll Management, or demonstrable equivalent experience
• System experience in IRIS Cascade payroll and SAP finance systems

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on.  Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance 

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. 

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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