GPP is a multi-award-winning UK-based financial services firm that provides execution, structured products, clearing, and custody services to broker-dealers, wealth managers, family offices, and professional traders. Clients are able to access the global financial markets via GPP's multi-asset class trading platform, which provides trade execution, clearing, and custody services.
As part of the Titan Wealth group, GPP and Titan Wealth Solutions offer a compelling alternative platform to traditional administration models through its core deliverables of scalability, efficiency and innovation. As a full end-to-end investment lifecycle services platform, we are fully compliant with CASS 6 and 7 with client assets and cash held with BNY Mellon and Barclays Bank.
Our vision is to be the leading services provider for wealth management professionals by providing leading-edge, innovative solutions. As the technology team, we are committed to achieving this vision by driving innovation and excellence in what we deliver. We require creative, objective, and forward-thinking in order to develop our strengths and minimise our weaknesses while architecting scalable solutions.
Our values are:
- Professionalism; how we treat our clients and our colleagues
- Trust; embrace innovation and adapt to change
- Innovation; dare to create and don't fear failure
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- https://www.gpp.group/
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- https://www.titanwealthsolutions.com/
The Titan Wealth Group is a wealth and asset management business bringing high quality execution and administration to the sector through leverage of the Groups resources and technology. We meet universal wealth and asset management needs by supporting our own as well as client IFAs and DFMs with innovative, quality and integrated solutions that drive efficiency into every part of the wealth management cycle.
We are an active acquirer of DFMs and IFAs in the UK, following an aggressive growth trajectory, having trebled in size from the initial acquisition of GPP under two years ago. Our strategy sees strong organic growth within the near term coupled with significantly larger acquisitions. We currently manage ten entities attracting taxation, mostly UK-orientated with exposure to Jersey and South Africa.
The role
The Payroll and Benefits Manager is a newly created role at Titan where the successful candidate will own payroll and benefits for the group, associated entities and upcoming acquisitions. They will harmonise the benefits across entities and geographical locations.
Job responsibilities
- Calculate, collate, and submit monthly payrolls across the UK and South Africa
- Collaborate with the Finance team to ensure accurate reporting, reconcile differences, and allocate costs appropriately
- Perform monthly payroll account reconciliations
- Maintain relationships with Payroll vendor and serve as the primary contact for auditors
- Recharge salary costs as needed and oversee and approve global Payroll changes
- Ensure compliance with specific country payroll regulations, accurate statutory reporting, and timely remittances
- Prepare P11D's and year-end payroll reporting (UK)
- Manage and administer the benefit offering ensuring they align with the company's overall strategy and objectives
- Research and analyse new or improved employee benefit plans to enhance the company's offerings and remain competitive in the market
- Collaborate with the HR director to develop and implement benefit strategies that support the company's business objectives and integrations
- Conduct monthly reporting, benefit processing, and ad-hoc reporting
- Ensure compliance with GDPR regulations and maintain payroll security and confidentiality
- To carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required
- Adhere to consumer duty
- Minimum 5 years of experience processing payroll for multiple entities
- Experience working with UK and SA payroll
- Strong Payroll systems experience
- Familiarity with the full Microsoft Office suite
- AAT qualification (UK) advantageous
- Ability to balance multiple demanding deadlines
- Organised, efficient, self-driven with excellent communication skills
- Customer service-focused with a commitment to accuracy and meeting deadlines
- Flexible working environment with remote work as the focus, we use Workshop 17 at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town as a co-working location when face-to-face would be beneficial to the team
- We believe in a healthy work/life balance, especially with the shift to a remote work focus. We encourage our team members to take time off, refocus, and reenergize and that a healthy separation from work can be maintained
- We have an open, trusting, empowering, friendly and importantly informal and relaxed environment. Your ideas and experience could contribute to shaping how we work, what we work on and help us continually drive innovation and improvement
- Competitive salary we keep up with the latest market trends and strive to pay competitively
- Competitive holiday leave 20+ days annual leave (earn an extra day for every year worked, up to 3 extra days)
- Performance-related discretionary annual bonus
- Retirement, Risk, and Medical-Aid contribution we will contribute to a medical aid of your choosing
- Training budget allowance for further study or attending conferences, including paid days off to study
