Marta Klementowicz
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Summary
Experienced Finance and Payroll Team Manager with a proven ability to lead high-performing teams in fast-paced environments. Skilled in overseeing end-to-end payroll operations, financial processing, and Direct Payments, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and timely delivery.
Highly organised with the ability to prioritise workloads, manage multiple tasks, and perform effectively under pressure to meet strict deadlines. Reliable, motivated, and committed to delivering high-quality results.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
24
24
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Finance and Payroll Team Manager
PPL
Wigan
2018.04 - Current
- Manage a finance team of 3 in a fast-paced environment, ensuring accurate allocation of Direct Payments and maintaining financial control across accounts
- Oversee all incoming and outgoing payments, ensuring transactions are processed accurately and within strict deadlines.
- Lead a payroll team of 4, ensuring payroll is processed correctly and delivered on time to support financial operations
- Coordinate and prioritise team workload, including new payroll setups and onboarding transfers from third-party payroll providers
- Manage 4 concurrent payroll schedules for over 1,200 employers, ensuring accuracy and compliance across all cycles
- Oversee the full payroll lifecycle, including PAYE scheme setup, processing, and year-end reporting
- Ensure compliance with relevant payroll and financial regulations, maintaining high standards of accuracy and accountability
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and reduce errors
- Addressed customer complaints promptly, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention.
- Prioritised workload effectively, resulting in timely completion of tasks.
- Provided consistent leadership to maintain high levels of team performance and satisfaction.
Consultant / Resourcer
Temp Station
2015.05 - 2018.04
- Marinating payroll operations by following policies and procedures, reporting needed changes, dealing with payroll queries.
- Taking and advertising job specifications and sourcing suitably skilled candidates.
- Conducting telephone interviews and preparing candidates for interviews.
- Identify skills to match appropriately with vacancies.
- Managing the compliance processes.
- Candidate management and current volume vacancies throughout the recruitment process, ensuring that they are kept informed at all stages.
- Deal with general queries relating to contracts, pay, logistics etc
Recruitment Consultant
Rapid Recruit
2013.07 - 2015.04
- Marinating payroll operations by following policies and procedures, reporting needed changes, dealing with payroll queries.
- Managing 8 existing client accounts and working closely with these clients to fully understand and support the business needs and to recruit in a pro-active manner to fully maximize the account.
- Taking and advertising job specifications and sourcing suitably skilled candidates.
- Candidate management and current volume vacancies throughout the recruitment process, ensuring that they are kept informed at all stages.
- Pre-employment screening, interviewing and induction candidates for different sites.
- To ensure that customer orders are processed efficiently and within the appropriate time frame.
- Ensure all information and documentation relevant to the recruitment process is accurately recorded, tracked and reported as required.
- Dealing with payroll queries.
Account Coordinator
Prime Time Recruitment/ PMP Recruitment
2011.03 - 2013.07
- Candidate management and current volume vacancies throughout the recruitment process, ensuring that they are kept informed at all stages.
- Pre-employment screening/interviews/medicals and issuing contracts.
- Managing an existing client account and working closely with this client to fully understand and support the business needs and to recruit in a pro-active manner to fully maximize the account.
- To ensure that customer orders are processed efficiently and within the appropriate time frame.
- Ensure all information and documentation relevant to the recruitment process is accurately recorded, tracked and reported as required.
- Report directly to the Account Manager.
- Dealing with payroll queries.
- Taking and advertising job specifications and sourcing suitably skilled candidates.
- Carry out duties such as photo copying, filing, data input, updating client reports, answering the telephone, liaising with both the client and mobile workers and other general admin tasks.
Warehouse Operative
Prime Time Recruitment
2009.04 - 2011.03
- Food production operative, Warehouse operative : picking, packing/repacking, labeling/relabeling, restacking
Warehouse associate
DHL Supply Chain and Recruitment Agencies
2004.07 - 2009.03
- Picking/packing
- Cage picking (LLOP) / marshalling(LLOP) / loading, goods in (PPT)
- General warehouse duties, dispatch
Accountant / Payroll
Accounting Bureau GIELDA in Poland
1998.06 - 2004.07
- Personal and responsive service, to ensure the safe and confidential management of the company finance.
- Complete service for all the clients: accountancy, payroll, audit, taxation, computer consultancy and business advice needs from company formations to management accounting.
- Invoice processing; auditing and processing invoices for more than 100 clients.
- Entering purchase orders and invoicing data into technical accounting system while ensuring excellent accuracy for all payments.
- Producing various accounting records and reports, payments/checks, and invoices on a monthly basis.
- Performing comprehensive general accounting functions such as reconciliation, general ledger, and payroll processing (manually and electronically) and discrepancy resolution.
- Employee recordkeeping and confidentiality, recruitment.
- Issuing contracts of employment, wage slips, SSP, SMP, termination of employment etc.
- Payment of PAYE, NI, and VAT.
- Bookkeeping - manually and electronically.
- VAT registers ledger, monthly and annual tax statements.
- Prepare and submit VAT returns.
- Bank transfers, issuing invoices.
- Cash handling.
- Keeping a very good contact with over hundred regular clients.
Education
Payroll Technician Certificate Advanced - Payroll
CIPP
Wigan 2025-02
AAT Level 2 - undefined
2017.01 - 2026.04
Apprenticeship/NVQ in Business and Administration Level 3 - Key Skills in Communication, Application of Number, ICT and Technical Certification
2013.01 -
Apprenticeship/NVQ in Business and Administration Level 2 - Key Skills in Communication, Application of Number, ICT and Technical Certification
2012.01 -
College - undefined
Poland 1997.01 - 1999.04
High School - undefined
Poland 1993.01 - 1997.04
Primary School - undefined
Poland 1985.01 - 1993.04
Skills
- Communication proficiency
- High Attention to Detail
- Time-management
- Resource allocation
- Proactive approach
- Performance monitoring
- Positive reinforcement
- Resilient mentality
LANGUAGES
Polish - native language, English - fluent
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
References available upon request.
Timeline
Finance and Payroll Team Manager
PPL
2018.04 - Current
AAT Level 2 - undefined
2017.01 - 2026.04
Consultant / Resourcer
Temp Station
2015.05 - 2018.04
Recruitment Consultant
Rapid Recruit
2013.07 - 2015.04
Apprenticeship/NVQ in Business and Administration Level 3 - Key Skills in Communication, Application of Number, ICT and Technical Certification
2013.01 -
Apprenticeship/NVQ in Business and Administration Level 2 - Key Skills in Communication, Application of Number, ICT and Technical Certification
2012.01 -
Account Coordinator
Prime Time Recruitment/ PMP Recruitment
2011.03 - 2013.07
Warehouse Operative
Prime Time Recruitment
2009.04 - 2011.03
Warehouse associate
DHL Supply Chain and Recruitment Agencies
2004.07 - 2009.03
Accountant / Payroll
Accounting Bureau GIELDA in Poland
1998.06 - 2004.07
College - undefined
1997.01 - 1999.04
High School - undefined
1993.01 - 1997.04
Primary School - undefined
1985.01 - 1993.04
Payroll Technician Certificate Advanced - Payroll
CIPP