PwC UK
UK Payroll Senior Associate
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About This Role
This role is ideal for an experienced, driven UK payroll professional who thrives in a client-facing environment and is passionate about delivering a high-quality payroll service. You will be part of a collaborative payroll team responsible for processing and reviewing approximately 350 weekly and monthly UK payrolls, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and excellent client experience at all times.
You will combine strong technical payroll knowledge with effective communication, supporting clients and internal teams while acting as a trusted subject matter expert. Attention to detail, organisation, and the ability to manage competing deadlines are key to success in this role.
What Your Days Will Look Like
- Manage end-to-end UK payroll processing, including calculations, validation checks, reconciliations, and final reviews, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and a consistently high-quality service across weekly and monthly payrolls.
- Maintain compliance by applying correct tax and National Insurance treatment, submitting RTI filings to HMRC, uploading pension contributions, and overseeing year-end activities such as P60s, P11Ds, and statutory deadlines.
- Act as a trusted payroll subject matter expert, responding to client and internal queries with clear guidance, resolving issues with HMRC and providers, and supporting colleagues to meet service levels.
- Support continuous improvement through client onboarding, documentation and process mapping, payroll projects, system enhancements, and training on legislative updates, system changes, and more efficient ways of working.
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This Role is for You If
- You bring strong end-to-end UK payroll knowledge and experience in a client-facing environment, with the confidence to manage multiple payrolls accurately under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- You communicate clearly and professionally, with excellent written and verbal skills, and enjoy solving problems through critical thinking, sound judgement, and a proactive, independent approach.
- You are highly organised, detail-focused, and adaptable, able to balance collaboration with personal accountability while confidently managing your workload and responding to changing priorities.
- You have strong Excel skills, are comfortable using PowerPoint, committed to continuous development, flexible in supporting the wider team. CIPP qualified or an equivalent qualification is desirable.
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What You’ll Receive From Us
No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.
We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home, and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.
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