JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™
Senior Payroll Consultant - Midlands/Southern England - c.£60K +Bonus

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Senior Payroll Consultant
Location: Midlands or Southern England – hybrid working
Salary: c.£60,000 + Bonus
We are supporting a leading global professional services organisation looking to make two appointments within its growing Payroll & Workforce Management advisory team.
These opportunities would suit bright, ambitious payroll professionals who want to move beyond BAU processing and build a career in payroll consulting, transformation and technology.
You’ll work with a broad range of UK and global organisations, supporting projects across payroll reviews, process improvement, technology implementation, vendor selection, compliance and wider transformation.
You could currently be working...
- In-house, having played a key role in a payroll transformation or implementation
- For a payroll bureau, supporting client implementations or migrations
- For a payroll or HR technology provider as an Implementation Consultant
- Within consulting, change or project delivery
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You’ll need a strong understanding of payroll and the full annual payroll cycle, combined with excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
Experience with platforms such as Dayforce, Workday, SAP, Oracle or similar would be valuable, but attitude, aptitude and the ambition to develop are equally important.
Why this role?
This is a rare opportunity to take your payroll experience into consulting while joining a highly experienced and supportive team experiencing significant growth.
You’ll gain exposure to complex projects, major organisations and multiple technologies—with excellent training and genuine long-term career progression.
Interested? Apply now, email your CV to tom@jgarecruitment.com or message me directly on LinkedIn for a confidential conversation.
JGA are dedicated to delivering the best possible candidate experience. Due to the high volume of applications, we regret that we are not always able to respond to every individual applicant. If your application is shortlisted, a member of our team will be in touch. Thank you for your understanding.


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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.
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