Recruitment of a Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager

Recruit your Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager (M/F)

Within your company, you wish to replace an employee or create a new position of Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager (M/F)

As a recruitment agency specialising in Human Resources, Boost’RH Groupe can help you recruit your future Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager (M/F).

With our HR sourcing team, we will conduct a precise search for candidates who meet the requirements of the Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager (M/F) job.

Then our HR recruiters will check, during the qualification and recruitment interviews, whether the candidates’ personal skills match your company’s values.

Finally, good sourcing and careful selection are not enough to ensure employee loyalty. That is why we will check the candidates’ ability to integrate and their pleasure in working in your company. This willingness to integrate must be reciprocal, which is why our coaches will enjoy accompanying your teams.

Because every word has its importance, to make it easier for you to define and write the job of Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager (M/F), we have prepared the main tasks of a Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager.

In constant contact with the company’s general management and employees, the Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager is the essential link in the chain of command for good human capital management. Below you will find details of the main tasks he/she carries out.

What are the tasks of the Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager ?

Reporting to the Human Resources department, the Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager is mainly responsible for drawing up payrolls and for all administrative tasks related to payroll and the day-to-day management of human capital. The Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager is also responsible for ensuring or contributing to the quality of the administrative follow-up of the contractual relationship with the employee and for having an advisory role vis-à-vis the hierarchy.

The Payroll and PA Manager has the following main tasks :

Payroll management and declarations in an outsourced payroll context

• Gather all the elements relating to the payroll and check their veracity
• Entering information on payroll variables and incidents
• Supervise and control payroll operations and post-payroll processing
• Ensure the relationship with the outsourced payroll provider
• Carry out periodic declarations (DSN, disabled persons, construction, etc.)

Personnel administration :

• Monitoring the evolution and life of employment contracts (updating/monitoring/monitoring of part-time endorsements, benefits in kind – housing car, half-time work, parental leave, etc.)
• Informing employees about social protection, remuneration, working conditions (hours, holidays, etc.)
• Manage the administrative files of the personnel (medical visits, GTA, TR, salary savings, attestation…)
• To manage the administrative entry and exit of employees
• Ensure the proper application of agreements (salary savings, working time/leave with pay/CT…)

 Management of social indicators and reporting

• Produce and analyse social statistics
• Produce the various HR reporting documents (ILOT workforce, Codir dashboards, IA tables, etc.)
• Carrying out budget forecasts
• Filling in the BDES
• Drawing up annual documents (Gender Equality Report, BDES, etc.)

Advice to employees and management

• Provide advice on personnel administration and payroll
• Alerting managers to abnormal or sensitive situations (absenteeism, badge anomalies, etc.)

Legal and social monitoring/Communication

• To ensure legal and social monitoring of its activity
• Alert the HR department of any change in its scope (return from maternity leave, long-term illness, etc.)
• Updating the intranet within its scope

(The tasks indicated above are not exhaustive, each company will adapt the position to its organisation and needs).

 The Payroll and ADP Manager is sometimes assisted in his mission by HR Managers whom he manages.

What are the skills required of a Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager ?

The job of Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager requires above all a taste for accounting and administrative tasks, rigour and precision but also empathy.

For this reason, the Payroll and PA Manager must also develop a real sense of human relations and of confidentiality and discretion in the handling of all the administrative files entrusted to him.

His or her tasks require him or her to master IT tools, and in particular payroll management software, spreadsheets, and time and absence management software.

In addition to these technical skills, the Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager must have a good general knowledge of labour law. In addition to this, he or she must have managerial skills, like any other department manager.

How to become a Payroll and PA Manager ?

To become a Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager, it is necessary to have studied management, business administration, economics or law. Access to this position can be gained from a Bac+2 (BTS or DUT). But, above all, it is necessary to have experience as an HR Manager or Payroll Manager to aspire to become a manager.

What salary for a Payroll and PA Manager ?

A Payroll and Personnel Administration Manager after 3 to 5 years of payroll and PA management, starts between 35 k€ and 40 k€ gross per year and aspires to a salary of 45 to 55 k€ after 10 years of expertise.

The Payroll and PA Manager will rather find a position in a medium-sized structure of SME, its correspondent in larger structures is called Human Resources Manager with broader responsibilities in more varied and more complex situations to deal with.

What are the career prospects for a Payroll and PA Manager?

The Payroll and PA Manager often evolves in a larger structure, with an increase in the complexity of personnel administration, legal and social relations for a junior HR Manager.