Job Description

Salary

35,412 - 38,220

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full time

Region

Rotherham

Job category/type

Human Resources

Date posted

10/10/2025

Job reference

REQ21405



Directorate: Assistant Chief Executive's

Permanent, 37 hours per week.

Are you ready to be part of a high-performing payroll service that makes a real difference across multiple local authorities and education establishments?

We are looking for a dynamic and experienced

Payroll Team Leader

to join our forward-thinking HR / Payroll Shared Services team.

About the Role

As one of two

Payroll Team Leaders

, you will lead a skilled team responsible for processing multiple complex payrolls. You'll ensure operational excellence, drive continuous improvement, and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. All at the heart of a customer-focused environment, where innovation and service quality are key.

Key Responsibilities

Lead the payroll team, co-ordinating day to day activities and planning workloads


Provide technical and professional advice to the payroll team, to the service and its customers


Manage and develop a high performing payroll team and implement any associated training, mentoring and coaching programmes


Produce action plans and assist in the development and implementation of policies, procedures and marketing strategies


Promote good working relationships with customers, internal colleagues, other local authorities and outside agencies

What We're Looking For

Extensive experience and knowledge of payroll legislation, terms and conditions of pay, Local Government and Teachers Pensions and HMRC requirements


Experience of managing and developing people within a service delivery organisation


Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills


Experience of delivering customer services in a fast paced and high-volume working environment


A proactive, solution-focused mindset with a passion for service improvement

What We Offer

A supportive and inclusive working environment. Opportunities for professional development and career progression. Flexible working arrangements, with hybrid working and a strong work-life balance ethos. The chance to make a tangible impact across multiple communities.

Does This Sound Like You?

Fuller details of this opportunity can be found in the attached Job Profile.

If you have any questions regarding this opportunity, please email: Nicola Thompson (Payroll Manager) at nicola.thompson@rotherham.gov.uk

Shortlisting: 6th November 2025.

Interviews: November 2025. This post will have access to the Public Services Network, if successful you will be required to apply for a disclosure of criminal records check at the Basic level (unspent criminal convictions). Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this position will be offered an interview. For further information, please visit our website. Until 31st March 2026 employees paid at Band D and above are subject to a temporary pay reduction of 1.15% spread out by means of a monthly deduction from each pay period over the full financial year. In recognition of implementing this temporary measure, those who experience a pay reduction will be awarded three additional days leave (pro rata for part-time).