JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™
Senior Payroll Administrator
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Senior Payroll Administrator
Location: Stockport - Fully Onsite
Salary: £29,500–£34,500
Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
The Role
An excellent opportunity for an experienced payroll professional to step into a Senior Payroll Administrator position, taking ownership of a portfolio of clients while also providing technical support and guidance across the wider payroll team.
The role combines hands-on payroll processing, client management, technical payroll queries and team support, making it ideal for someone looking to progress beyond a standard Payroll Administrator position.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of clients and deliver accurate payrolls within strict daily and weekly deadlines.
- Process complex payrolls in line with individual client and agency requirements.
- Ensure PAYE, National Insurance and other payroll calculations are processed correctly.
- Complete weekly payroll and payment reconciliations alongside the Finance team.
- Handle complex payroll queries and act as an escalation point for colleagues and clients.
- Carry out quality assurance checks to maintain high levels of payroll accuracy.
- Support the organisation of team workloads and ensure SLAs and KPIs are consistently achieved.
- Monitor areas such as payroll advances, overpayments and other financial controls.
- Build strong relationships with clients, understanding their payroll requirements and key deadlines.
- Support ongoing payroll projects and improvements within the team.
- Keep up to date with payroll legislation and ensure processes remain compliant.
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Ideal Candidate
- At least 3 years’ payroll experience.
- Strong end-to-end payroll knowledge with the confidence to resolve more complex payroll queries.
- Umbrella payroll experience would be beneficial.
- Strong understanding of PAYE, National Insurance and UK payroll legislation.
- Experience managing multiple clients or payrolls within a deadline-driven environment.
- Excellent attention to detail and ability to maintain accuracy under pressure.
- Confident dealing directly with clients and providing a high level of customer service.
- Comfortable supporting colleagues and acting as an escalation point within a payroll team.
- CIPP qualified or working towards a payroll qualification would be advantageous.
- Proactive, organised and solutions-focused approach.
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Interested?
- Contact Betsy today! betsy@jgarecruitment.com or apply directly to this advert.
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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