JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™
Payroll Manager
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Payroll Manager (Standalone)
Salary: £45,000
Location: Bootle, Liverpool
Working Setup: Fully Onsite
Payroll: c.300 employees across multiple sites
The Role
A newly created opportunity for an experienced Payroll Manager to take full ownership of a complex UK payroll while improving and automating the payroll function.
You’ll be the business’s dedicated payroll expert, reporting directly to the Finance Director and working closely with HR across multiple sites.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end monthly payroll for c.300 employees.
- Process varied pay including commission, bonuses, overtime, shift premiums, pensions, benefits, and statutory payments.
- Manage RTI submissions, PAYE/NIC, P11Ds, P60s, and auto-enrolment.
- Complete payroll reconciliations, journals, and management reporting.
- Improve and automate payroll processes, moving from manual input towards data uploads and integrations.
- Develop controls, validation checks, payroll calendars, and documented procedures.
- Optimise the newly implemented Sage People and Sage People Payroll systems.
- Partner closely with HR on starters, leavers, pay changes, and other employee changes.
- Act as the main point of contact for payroll queries across the business.
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Ideal Candidate
- Strong end-to-end UK payroll experience, ideally managing payrolls of 200–500+ employees.
- Experience working in a standalone/sole-charge payroll position.
- Comfortable with complex pay including commission, bonuses, and overtime.
- Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, RTI, pensions, and auto-enrolment.
- Proven experience improving and automating payroll processes.
- Advanced Excel skills including imports, lookups, templates, and data validation.
- Sage People / Sage People Payroll experience is highly desirable.
- Confident working autonomously and communicating with senior stakeholders.
- Multi-site, automotive, or dealership payroll experience would be advantageous.
A great opportunity for someone who enjoys being hands-on with payroll but also wants the autonomy to shape, automate, and improve an entire payroll function.
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JGA Recruitment Group Ltd ("We") are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships. We strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply. We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist payroll, HR & Reward recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
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