Steamship Mutual

Manager

• **Key Responsibilities:**
• **Payroll**
• - Lead and administer monthly UK and international payrolls, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and full compliance.
• - Ensure adherence to all statutory, tax, and regulatory obligations across UK and international jurisdictions.
• - Manage vendor performance for outsourced payroll services, setting clear SLAs and monitoring deliverables.
• - Oversee payroll governance, including monthly reconciliations, statutory reporting, internal controls, and payroll audits.
• - Main point of contact for queries relating to payroll or tax codes queries.
• - Manage payroll adjustments such as back pay, severance, off cycle runs, deductions and benefits contributions
• - Identify process inefficiencies and implement workflow improvements to enhance accuracy and reduce risk, including HRIS integration
• - Assist with annual pay reviews, including data management and input.
• - Collaborate with Finance, HR, brokers, and payroll providers.
• **Benefits**
• - Manage the lifecycle of employee benefits programmes, including renewals, plan design, communications, vendor negotiation, and governance.
• - Administer the full range of employee benefits, including healthcare, risk benefits, pensions, wellbeing initiatives, salary sacrifice schemes, and the Benefits Hub platform.
• - Oversee benefits policies, SharePoint content, and HR systems to ensure accuracy and compliance. Monitor benefit usage, performance, and cost-effectiveness, providing insights and recommendations.
• - Coordinate the annual benefits review to understand benefits offered, take-up, cost to serve and ROI
• - Support annual insurance renewals. Liaise and negotiate with brokers, and ensure benefits communications and policies remain accurate, engaging, and compliant.
• - Develop strong relationships with external suppliers and brokers, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery.
• - Manage and track all benefit related invoices and reconciliations within areas of responsibility.
• - Improve communication and awareness of benefits offered on a consistent basis across the business. Communicating any announcements and changes to benefits. i.e., Intranet, documentation for recruitment, newsletters, training.
• **Compensation and Reporting**
• - Support the annual pay and bonus review processes, budget planning, and reward analytics.
• - Produce accurate monthly HR metrics, establishment numbers, turnover data, and equal pay analysis, and UK Gender Pay Gap reporting.
• - Conduct external salary benchmarking and market analysis.
• - Preparing all the relevant spreadsheets and pay review letters.
• **People Leadership**
• - Manage and develop the Payroll Administrator, ensuring high standards, strong performance, and continuous growth.

Compensation and Benefits Manager