People Systems & Payroll Manager

• Manage end-to-end fortnightly and monthly payroll across all sites, including the Fourth bureau relationship and issue resolution with HR and Finance
• Process starters, leavers, pay changes, contracts, and pension administration, ensuring compliance
• Act as system administrator for Fourth Hospitality, managing administration, configuration, user access, and data integrity
• Lead system improvements, integrations, reporting, and user support
• Manage benefits administration and analyse market benchmarking, takeup, cost, and value
• Manage apprenticeship levy administration and support gender pay gap reporting
• Ensure compliance, support payroll reconciliations, monthend activities, and audits
• Drive process improvements across payroll, benefits, and systems
• Support employee queries and provide wider People administration support as required

• Previous records of driving continuous improvement across payroll, benefits, and systems to enhance efficiency, accuracy, and user experience
• Able to deliver responsive support to employee queries and contribute to broader People team activities as needed
• Have experience administering and optimising HR/payroll systems, including reporting, integrations, and implementations (Fourth Hospitality)
• Possess strong benefits experience, combining hands-on delivery with market benchmarking, data analysis, and insight generation
• You are numerate and commercially aware, with knowledge of apprenticeship levy and gender pay gap reporting
• Has working knowledge of pensions
• experience with travel platforms (e.g. Roomex) is beneficial
• Confident managing provider relationships and presenting clear, actionable insights to senior stakeholders, with a detail-focused, organised, and solutions-driven approach across HR and Finance

Experience with travel platforms (e.g. Roomex)

• Competitive salary
• Employee perks, social events and discounts across venues
• Private medical insurance
• Life insurance
• Wagestream – access to your earned £££ whenever you need
• Up to 33 days holidays
• Flexible working
• The opportunity to be part of exciting business venture
• Employee assistance programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity
• Career development opportunities in a growing company