Role: People Payments Manager
Department: FIN - Finance
Scale: MP6
Salary: £49,716 - £53,451
Location: Priory Road HQ
Hours: 37 Hours Per Week (Full-Time) Monday to Friday
Flexibility Requirement: Candidates must be open to flexible daily working hours to meet the operational needs of the department. This may include adjusting start and finish times, providing cover during peak periods, or supporting colleagues during absences. Flexibility is essential to ensure consistent service delivery and effective team collaboration.
Contract: Permanent
Overall, Purpose of the role: To work as a member of the finance team, by managing the People Payments team to provide a fully comprehensive and professional payroll and pension service ensuring compliance with Force policies, objectives and legislative requirements always.
To have awareness of future changes impacting payroll, pensions and benefits, to brief the Head of Finance and to ensure all processes remain compliant
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead on the delivery of the Force’s payrolls and ensure that all regulatory deadlines, and quality standards are met and adhered to.
- Identify, manage and review all significant risks within the People Payments function including fulfilling requirements in relation to the business continuity and rigid contingency plans. Ensure that processes are clearly documented and challenged on a regular basis to provide efficient ways of working for all stakeholders concerned and to maximise accuracy within the Department.
- Lead on the implementation of payroll systems and technology ensuring there is minimum disruption during such periods of change and that the outcome maximises efficiency and delivers an improved operational service.
- Lead, manage and co-ordinate on the Force’s obligations to Pension providers ensuring contributions are taken in line with legislation and all employee pension correspondence is processed within appropriate timescales. Monthly and annual returns to be submitted accurately and within specified deadlines
- Proactively manage the performance of the People Payments department through a range of KPIs and use these as focus future objectives or to highlight areas of concern.
- Establish effective communication networks at Force and National level to promote the work of the Force and to provide, deliver and receive payroll and pension advice. Act as a conduit between SLT, other Force/Regional functions and external agencies to ensure the provision of professionally qualified support and advice on payroll matters so that all issues are addressed to prevent the need for escalation.
- Continuously develop effective and efficient Payroll Services whilst aligning output to performance targets and quality standards.
- Undertake specific projects at a Command/Branch/Force level, produce reports, and make recommendations for change as appropriate.
For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.
What the role requires:
- Excellent organisational skills
- Possess a Level 5 qualification in a relevant subject area and/or possess substantial equivalent experience in a similar position.
- Working knowledge of a payroll system
- Excellent knowledge of past, present and future Payroll & Pension legislation
- Computer literate in the use of multiple payroll packages and is able to adapt to new systems easily.
- Able to complete all payroll calculations manually and access/interpret the relevant guides for use in the calculations
- Significant experience of working in a payroll environment at management or supervisory level
- Previous experience of producing reports, making recommendations and providing management information to inform decision making at a senior level
- Has the ability to confidently liaise with people, building relationships at all levels both internal and external to the force gaining credibility.
- Organisational skills with the ability to allocate resources, prioritise workloads, meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Experience of working in a confidential environment.
- Ability to work with minimum supervision when required.
- Experience of using computers to input, amend and extract information.
- Ability to work as part of a team.
- Have access to a vehicle and able to travel the force area.
- Ability to prioritise workload.
For further information relating to the role and tasks of this position please refer to the attached role requirement.
Perks of working for Humberside Police:
From great perks, agile working and professional development, we want you to have the best possible journey throughout your Humberside Police Career.
Our Police Staff work extremely hard, which is why we are proud to offer a host of reward and recognition schemes. Whether it’s Cycle to Work scheme, Gym and health schemes, we have the perks ready for you to benefit from.
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Further Perks:
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Training and development opportunities
- Coaching & Mentoring Scheme
- Employee assistance service (accessible 24/7)
- Flexible/Hybrid working where applicable.
- Generous pension scheme
- Blue Light Discount
- Access to the force’s onsite gyms
- Free on-site car parking
- Humber bridge tag (If travelling from the Southbank)
Pre – Employment Checks and Eligibility:
- Internal applicants MUST have completed a successful probationary period and tenure (if applicable) before applying for another role within the force.
- Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria of at least 3 years continuous residency in the UK to apply for roles with Humberside Police.
- Successful candidates will undergo a vetting procedure pre-requisite of employment. (Please note, with holding any information asked by the vetting department, may delay the vetting procedure, or result in your vetting been refused and the offer of employment been withdrawn)
- Tattoo’s will be reviewed as a part of the recruitment process to ensure we maintain a level of professional standards and to make sure the images do not cause offence or are unacceptable.
- Successful candidates may need to provide Biometric/Drug Testing/Samples for certain roles before commencing in the position due to the nature of the role.
Contact point for applicants:
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact us at recruiting@humberside.pnn.police.uk
How to apply for the role:
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Please note, you must wait 3 months before submitting another application if you have applied for THIS role within the last 3 months.
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Closing Date: Tuesday 21st July 2026 at 23:55
Interview date: TBC
It is not likely that closing dates will be extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and would need to be with the permission of the Recruitment Manager and Line Manager of the role.
The Recruitment Manager can authorise to close any vacancy before the closing date stated on the advert.
Attachments:
- Role Requirement
- Guidance for completing your application.
- Bank of Adjustments
- Preferred candidate roadmap
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