JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™
Senior Payroll Administrator
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Job Title: Senior Payroll Administrator
Salary
Up to £50,000
Location
Central London
Working Pattern
Hybrid – 3 days in the office, 2 days from home
Hours
9.00am–5.30pm
Must be experienced in a accountancy practice environment.
JGA Recruitment Group is working with an established professional services business to appoint a Senior Payroll Administrator to join its growing payroll team.
This is a client-facing payroll role, managing your own portfolio of clients and taking ownership of payroll delivery from start to finish. Alongside processing, you’ll provide payroll advice, support new client onboarding and build trusted relationships with your clients.
The Role
- Manage end-to-end payrolls for a portfolio of clients, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
- Process starters, leavers, statutory payments and variable pay.
- Complete RTI submissions and ensure payroll compliance.
- Manage auto-enrolment and pension processes across a range of schemes.
- Act as the main point of contact for client payroll queries and provide clear, practical advice.
- Attend client meetings and build strong, long-term relationships.
- Support the onboarding of new clients, including gathering and transitioning payroll data.
- Advise on areas including salary sacrifice, National Insurance, Benefits in Kind and wider payroll legislation.
- Manage multiple payroll deadlines and competing priorities effectively.
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About You
- Ideally have 5+ years’ payroll experience, with a background in practice payroll and experience managing your own portfolio of clients.
- Confident managing client relationships and handling complex payroll queries.
- Technically strong, with a good understanding of UK payroll legislation.
- Experienced with multi-client payroll environments and ideally BrightPay or similar software.
- Comfortable managing pensions and auto-enrolment.
- Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines without compromising accuracy.
- Professional, approachable and confident communicating with clients.
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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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