Ann Pemberton Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Street, England, United Kingdom

• Managing a team of six payroll assistants delivering timely and accurate payment across six, in-house payrolls, with weekly, four-weekly, and monthly pay timescales.
• Overseeing the whole range of payroll requirements covering 6,000 permanent employees, rising to 9,000 employees during summer holidays.
• Significant international payroll management experience. Managing in-house payrolls for Ireland, Jersey, Isle of Man, and Dubai. Managing an external provider to deliver payroll services in Austria, Belgium, France.
• Liaison with internal auditors, external auditors, and investors.
• Coaching and supervision. Supporting team members handling 300 to 500 daily queries, providing coaching in areas in need of improvement, and responding to complex queries.
• Resourcing and lean team management. Monitor and ensure capacity to meet business continuity plans for payments. Running daily ‘hot topics’ meetings to ensure team objectives are clear and resource is available..

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Reporting directly to the CFO and Non-Exec Board on system issues and upgrades.
• Acting as payroll lead on system upgrades, working with all business partners including the Director of IT and software providers, completing workshops and risk registers.
• Assist in the upgrade of the payroll software including testing on minor releases and annual upgrade deployments within the system.
• Ensure that the monthly payroll data is processed (including starters, leavers, HMRC documentations, statutory payments, overtime). Approximately 3,500 employees. This was manually calculated as the software used did.
• Comprehensive knowledge of company policy and procedure, along with the ability to both accurately interpret and implement all pay related policy in a practical and precise manner.
• Ensure that all standing information is maintained accurately on the payroll database used to calculate sick pay across the different company schemes.

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Balancing two payrolls totaling over 13,000 employees based the UK and Ireland.
• Reporting to the finance operations manager and tax director on issues including all payroll and expenses accounts and reconciliations, and PSA, P11Ds, and tax awards schemes.
• Collaborating with various corporate benefit departments, ensuring policy changes are compliant with HMRC regulations and business requirements.
• Identifying system and process improvements, assessing benefits and implementing changes, monitoring outcome to ensure benefits are achieved.
• Posting of all relevant journals to SAP Finance and requests to make PAYE, NI, and pension payments. Testing SAP upgrades, patches, and procedures, liaising with IT to ensure statutory compliance in accordance with.
• Keep key controls and process documentation up-to-date and advising and training staff accordingly. Responsible for internal control compliance within the Payroll and Expenses Team and ensuring company and statutory.

City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Managing a payroll of over 650 employees of a FTSE 100 company.
• Experience using Sage payroll and Ciphr HR packages.
• Supervise payroll assistant and training HR assistants on new legislation and intranet updates.
• Reporting to the CEO, FD, Company Secretary, and HR Director. Compiling departmental reports. Meeting with the board of directors regarding employee bonuses, pay reviews and sharesave options.
• Responsible for completing all tasks relating to payroll year end including P11Ds.
• Managing income draw down payments, reconciling with SIPP team with regards to client payments and processing year end HM Revenue & Customs reports.

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Part of a specialist payroll and HR team providing payroll services to 2,500 organisations.
• Responsible for approximately 300 weekly paid staff and around 8,700 monthly paid staff.
• Determination of payroll deadlines including submission of timesheets, SCOPE forms and payment dates. Reviewing SCOPE amendments, processed payrolls and manual adjustments.
• Liaising with Operations team regarding BACS transmissions and HR team of client organisations and departmental managers.
• Experience using Caralink and Resourcelink packages.

Greater Bristol Area, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the prompt and accurate processing of payments to 400 weekly paid staff, 1,200 monthly paid staff, and supervision of NBT Extra bank with over 4,500 employees listed.
• Action changes to payroll and pension records in accordance with NHS requirements.
• Selected to implementation teams for TUPE transfer 3,000 employees from RUH Bath and new terms and conditions brought in by the Department for Health’s Agenda for Change programme.
• Training and supervision of junior team members, providing ‘mentorship’.

City Of Bristol, England, United Kingdom