Payroll Manager

Job Description

Payroll Manager

Function: People Function
Location: St Andrew’s Square Edinburgh (a mix of office and home working)
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 base salary (depending on experience) plus 15% of base salary as a benefits allowance plus full benefits listed below.

Contract: Permanent

Latest Closing date: 5th September 2025. Please note, we may close vacancies early where we receive significant numbers of applications, so don’t delay!

As the nation’s leading pub, cider and beer company and the name behind a host of brilliant brands, we’re looking for equally brilliant people to help us on our journey to building a better future.

There’s so much more to HEINEKEN than meets the eye and right now, we’re looking for a Payroll Manager to join our People Function team!

About the Role
As our Payroll Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in safeguarding and governing one of the most sensitive and impactful areas of our business: colleague pay. We need a technically strong and forward-thinking leader who thrives on problem-solving, champions continuous improvement, and uses influence to shape and enhance our payroll systems. Your expertise will ensure accuracy, trust, and innovation at the heart of everything we do.

This is a key role in making sure our outsourced payroll services are not just processed, but delivered compliantly, on time and to standard. These services cover all UK-based colleagues as well as UK colleagues working around the globe and our inpats from other countries.

You’ll be able to demonstrate strong payroll service delivery with either an inhouse team or a 3rd party provider. Applying strong payroll controls and validation protocols, you’ll be up to date on the taxation landscape and regulatory and legal requirements. You’ll be the go-to person to support complex queries and bespoke requirements.

Working with two Payroll Analysts, you will deliver day-to-day operations, continuous improvement initiatives and project activity. You’ll be expected to lead and influence both internal and external stakeholders when steering projects, resolving complex issues or working with immovable deadlines.

Some of the key accountabilities of the role include:

• Successful delivery of monthly payroll controls
• Contract management of the 3rd party payroll services provider
• Technical set up of the payroll software, and ensuring the time management system delivers accurate monthly pay
• Ensure key annual processes are managed and delivered on time - P60, PSA data, R&D tax relief data, short term visitors tax calculations, HMRC Appendix 4, 5, 7a, 7b & 8 returns
• Accountable for Company Car Fleet Administration and company car reporting
• Modified payroll for inpats
  
  

Who We’re Looking For
You’ll have significant experience in operating and delivering a large multisite payroll and be fully conversant with HMRC legislation including PAYE, National Insurance, employer-provided benefits, Real Time Information, and statutory payments.

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are key attributes within the People Function, and candidates should demonstrate their ability to communicate with colleagues and managers throughout the business.

What you’ll bring

• CIPP qualification (or equivalent experience)
• A strong understanding on current legislation, compliance and technical controls.
• Hands-on experience managing outsourced payroll and system providers (or in-house equivalent)
• Leadership skills with examples of forward-thinking approaches
• Clear ability to manage controls, audits, reconciliations and stakeholder needs
• Strong SAP HR/reporting knowledge and data mindset

Our ways of working
Heineken’s Global Purpose is to “brew the Joy of True Togetherness to inspire a better world” and to fulfil this we believe in working closely with each other and collaborating f2f when we can. To enable this, we ask colleagues to be in the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays and one other day of the colleague’s choice.

Our benefits and rewards

• Annual bonus
• Benefits Allowance (15% of base salary)
• Company-funded Private Medical Healthcare
• Double-matched pension (up to 10%)
• 35 days annual leave (holiday trading available) + 3 public holidays
• Flexible benefits including a retail discounts platform
• A monthly case of our delicious ciders and beers (low and no alcohol options available)

…And much more! Check out our Why Join Us page if you’d like more information.

You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in our colleague networks, in which people from across the business connect to help champion diversity, equity and inclusion, ensuring we’re continuing to give people a voice.

The application
If you like what you’ve read and are ready to brew a better career with us, let’s get going! We may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications, so don’t delay!

If you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example if you require information in different formats, or if you have any accessibility issues, then we’re more than happy to review our processes – please feel free to get in touch with us at recruitment@heineken.co.uk.

You might feel that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, and that’s okay – we all need the opportunity to develop and untap our full potential. If this advert’s piqued your interest, we’d encourage you to submit an application rather than ruling yourself out. You never know – you may be exactly what we’re looking for!

Who we are.
We’re the world’s most international brewer and the name behind a host of brilliant beers and ciders, from Birra Moretti, to Strongbow, to Cruzcampo and many more.

It’s a fantastic time to join us. We’re leading the way in low and no alcohol innovation, pioneering new technologies to meet our ambitious environmental goals and investing in our pubs to keep them at the centre of their communities.

If you want to hear more about life at HEINEKEN from our colleagues, head over to LinkedIn and check out the hashtag #LifeatHEINEKENUK.

There’s no better place to untap your future. Join us and brew a better career.