Payroll Manager

At Fitzgerald Power, we have spent decades building a top-tier team of experts dedicated to delivering innovative and strategic accountancy services. As one of Ireland’s fastest growing accountancy firms, we are not just advisors, we are partners in growth, working closely with clients to navigate challenges and seize opportunities.

We are at an exciting point in Fitzgerald Power’s journey, and as part of our ambitious growth plans, we are looking to welcome a Manager to our Payroll Team. This position represents a critical role in shaping the future of our Payroll division.

If you thrive in a dynamic, client-focused environment and are ready to play a pivotal role in driving innovation and excellence within our Payroll services, we would love to hear from you.

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• Responsible for managing team members, including assisting with training and development of new staff and onboarding new payroll clients working with the other payroll manager (and payroll partner in the absence of payroll manager).
  
• Maintaining your own portfolio of client’s payroll deadlines for processing and review.
  
• Overseeing the daily workflow, ensuring standard operating procedures are followed.
  
• Responsible for overseeing the payroll e-mail and assuring queries are being dealt with by the overall team in a timely manner.
  
• Responsible for assisting, overseeing and allocating workflow from the internal payroll e-mail in order to monitor and limit internal distractions.
  
• Monitoring the daily checklist to ensure all stages are completed on a daily basis meeting all daily payroll and banking deadlines. Check bank authorisation confirmations indicating payments processed in advance of payroll deadlines.
  
• Ensuring any necessary client follow‑ups are actioned in a timely manner where the relevant information is not received.
  
• Escalate any continuous issues to next level management, if required.
  
• Ensure all team members follow the Fitzgerald Power payroll process to enable the timely production of assigned payrolls.
  
• Ensuring processing of all payroll information in timely manner while maintaining the firm’s standard of excellent client service.
  

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• Professional accountancy qualification is preferred (ITI, CTA, ACCA, ACA).
  
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a management role within an Irish tax practice.
  
• Experienced in managing a client portfolio with strong commercial expertise.
  
• Strong technical skills to deliver tax advisory services.
  
• Prior experience of working with FDI and personal tax planning cases (desirable but not essential).
  
• Team player with experience in managing staff.
  
• Excellent communication (both written and verbal), interpersonal and leadership skills.
  
• Strong Microsoft applications skills; Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
  
• Assisting the team with various client payroll related queries.
  
• Act as the point of contact for any escalated payroll queries and refer to payroll manager (payroll partner in absence of payroll manager).
  
• Adherence to the payroll processing standard operating procedures document.
  
• Use internal payroll checklist template at end of the process to ensure all steps are correct.
  
• Completing internal reporting system (Karbon HQ) on weekly basis.
  
• Conduct any other duties or tasks associated with payroll administration for clients and ensure delegated to team members as required.
  
• Ensuring weekly/fortnightly and monthly payroll reports and pay slips are issued and signed off accordingly by the team.
  
• Ensuring weekly/fortnightly and monthly PSR are uploaded to Revenue.
  
• Monitoring Employers PAYE deadlines.
  
• Experience with WRC & DSP Inspections.
  

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• At least 8-10 years of payroll processing experience.
  
• People management & supervision skills.
  
• Knowledge of Thesaurus & BrightPay required.
  
• IPASS qualification required.
  
• Knowledge of Irish taxation.
  
• Ability to manage priorities and meet strict deadlines.
  
• Track record of progression in previous roles.
  
• Effective communicator & good interpersonal skills.
  
• Strong work ethic.
  
• Attention to detail.
  
• Continuous improvement mindset.
  
• Problem solver. xcfaprz
  
• Great team working skills and an ability to show flexibility when faced with new challenges.
  

Reporting To: Payroll Partner

Team: Payroll

Location: Waterford, Ireland

Flex Working: We offer flexible working hours and operate a hybrid working model [based on the 60/40 rule; 3 days onsite and 2 set days remote]

Salary: A competitive package will be offered to the right candidate

Status: Permanent/Full-time