Asset & Payroll Manager - 18 Month FTC

Do you thrive in fast‑paced, high‑volume finance environments? Are you an expert in lease accounting, fixed assets, and payroll controls? Looking to lead a capable team while driving best‑practice and process improvement?

Here at GXO, we’re looking for a technically strong, solutions‑focused Asset & Payroll Manager on an 18 month fixed term contract to take full ownership of lease accounting, fixed assets and payroll activities within our Chippenham Shared Service Centre.

This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for ensuring accuracy, integrity and compliance across key financial accounting processes. You’ll be the primary point of contact for audits, senior finance stakeholders and cross‑functional teams, helping to drive efficiency, embed best practice and strengthen controls across the finance landscape.

This is a full-time permanent position. You’ll be working Monday to Friday, 09:00 till 17:00 with a requirement to be in our Chippenham office Tuesday & Wednesday each week. However, some flexibility is required, this is logistics after all!

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a salary up to £75,000, depending on experience plus a car allowance of £6000 per annum and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company sponsored pension scheme and private medical cover.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Own the full end‑to‑end process for fixed assets, lease accounting (IFRS 16), and payroll, ensuring accurate and timely delivery aligned to Group requirements
• Lead, coach and motivate a specialist R2R team (2 direct reports, 4 indirect) to embed continuous improvement and documented best practice
• Maintain and control all related balance sheet reconciliations, internal reporting, and support statutory accounting and budget processes
• Strengthen internal controls, support SOX compliance, lead operational risk reviews and manage audit interaction
• Build strong, proactive relationships across senior management, FP&A, operations and finance teams to influence decisions and drive improvements

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Qualified Accountant with strong technical expertise in lease accounting (IFRS 16), US GAAP, and high‑volume R2R environments
• Demonstrable experience across fixed assets, complex lease assessments, and payroll accounting
• Proven ability to operate in fast‑paced, high‑volume shared service environments, ideally with logistics exposure
• Strong controls mindset with experience in SOX, process improvement, documentation, and standardisation
• Confident team leader with the ability to coach and uplift capability across direct and indirect reports

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.  We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.

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