Seasalt began in 1981 with a small shop in Penzance, selling workwear to local mariners and practical overalls to artists. Today, we’ve grown into a thriving omnichannel retailer with over 80 UK and Ireland stores, 400+ wholesale stockists, and a growing international and online footprint.
As a B Corp and winner of both Drapers “Best Place to Work” and CIPD’s “Best Recognition Programme”, we care deeply about our people, our communities and our long-term impact. Our Head Office teams provide the foundations that empower our people to drive sustainable growth across the UK and international markets.
The Payroll Manager is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of accurate and timely payroll for all employees across our business. Leading a team of Payroll Administrators, this role ensures compliance with all statutory requirements and company policies, while driving continuous improvement in payroll processes and controls. The Payroll Manager also has overall responsibility for the time and attendance (T&A) system, ensuring accurate capture of hours worked and alignment with pay and absence records.
This is a full-time, permanent role, and is based remotely within the UK, with monthly travel to our Cornwall head offices.
You’ll help us by:
- Leading end-to-end monthly and hourly payroll for c.1,300 employees across Head Office, Retail and Warehouse.
- Ensuring compliance with HMRC, pensions auto-enrolment, salary sacrifice and all statutory requirements.
- Maintaining and improving payroll policies, processes and controls, ensuring documentation and cover for absences.
- Managing year-end payroll activity, including P60s, P11Ds/payrolled benefits and HMRC submissions.
- Working closely with Finance and HR on payroll reconciliation, reporting and insights to support workforce planning, absence and pay accuracy.
- Monitoring legislative and regulatory changes, acting as subject matter expert for the payroll team, wider HR team and business stakeholders.
- Managing payroll bureau relationships, including oversight of ROI payroll compliance.
- Owning payroll relationships with PEO/EOR providers for overseas employees.
- Leading, coaching and developing Payroll Administrators, promoting accuracy, efficiency and a strong customer focus.
- Allocating workload, meeting deadlines and resolving issues promptly.
- Owning the time and attendance system, ensuring accurate data capture and effective manager engagement, delivering training and preparing communications as needed.
- Driving improvements to time and attendance processes, systems and training in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Contributing to wider HR, Payroll and Reward projects as required.
The skills you’ll be sharing with the team:
- A formal technical payroll qualification – CIPP, IAB, AAT or equivalent (or demonstrable equivalent competence from on-the-job learning).
- Proven track record of managing payroll for a medium to large workforce (c.1,000+ employees), with a mix of hourly and salaried employees.
- Strong knowledge of current UK payroll legislation, GDPR, HMRC reporting, pensions, and statutory requirements.
- Experience of both payroll and time and attendance systems (Dayforce preferred but not essential).
- Previous experience leading and developing a small payroll team.
- Fluent English language skills, both written and spoken, sufficient to perform the role effectively and support clear communication across the business.
- Excellent attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
- Strong organisational and problem-solving skills.
- Strong Excel skills to enable analysis of 1,000s of data points when needed (eg XLOOKUPS, SUMIFS etc).
- Drive and tenacity in implementing improvements and efficiencies in working practices.
Why we hope you’ll love working with us:
The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us.
As well as doing everything we can to support your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:
- Salary: up to £55,000 per annum (Band 3)
- 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
- Attractive 50% employee discount
- Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
- Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
- Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
- Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
- Life assurance programme
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Flexible working opportunities with our hybrid working approach
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Do Good Things with our two days per year paid volunteering opportunities
- Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion & Belonging Network
- 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub
At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people – they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.
We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow – so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at careers@seasaltcornwall.co.uk
Closing date for applications is 2nd September 2026, however our roles can close earlier so we would recommend applying as soon as you are able.
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Requires CIPP, IAB, AAT or equivalent payroll competence; payroll leadership for 1,000+ employees; UK payroll legislation, GDPR, HMRC, pensions, payroll and time systems, and advanced Excel skills.
Key Responsibilities
- leading payroll
- managing attendance
- coaching administrators
Skills & Tools
Dayforce, Microsoft Excel, XLOOKUPS, SUMIFS
Job Details
- Category: Finance and Accounting
- Seniority: Mid Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — United Kingdom
- Salary: GBP 55,000 – 55,000 / year
- Languages: English
Benefits
- Generous paid time off
- Retirement plan
- Generous parental leave
About Seasalt
An omnichannel apparel retailer operating stores, wholesale distribution, and online channels in the UK and internationally. — Industry: Retail and Wholesale