Senior Payroll Advisor

Senior Payroll Advisor Salary: £35,000–£40,000 + benefits Location: Romford Contract: 6-month FTC Hybrid: 1 day office / 4 days home The Role An opportunity for an experienced client payroll professional to manage a…

Hybrid Finance
Pay rate £35,000 – £40,000/year
Contract type Contract
Posted 22 September 2026

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Senior Payroll Advisor
Salary: £35,000–£40,000 + benefits
Location: Romford
Contract: 6-month FTC
Hybrid: 1 day office / 4 days home
The Role
An opportunity for an experienced client payroll professional to manage a portfolio of complex, high-frequency payrolls within an established professional services environment.
This is a senior, client-facing position where you’ll manage payroll delivery, resolve technical queries and act as a trusted point of contact for clients.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage end-to-end weekly, monthly and annual client payrolls.
* Handle complex payrolls including benefits, share schemes, pensions and international assignments.
* Manage RTI submissions, HMRC correspondence and year-end processes.
* Administer auto-enrolment and complex pension arrangements.
* Advise clients on payroll legislation, statutory payments and holiday pay.
* Support new client onboarding, system implementations and parallel runs.
* Resolve complex payroll queries and provide technical guidance.
* Support and mentor junior payroll colleagues.
Ideal Candidate
* Recent payroll bureau / client payroll experience is essential.
* Strong end-to-end UK payroll knowledge and experience managing multiple client payrolls.
* Confident handling complex payroll queries and dealing directly with clients.
* Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, pensions and compliance.
* IRIS Payroll Professional experience is highly desirable, but not essential.
* CIPP qualified or qualified by experience.
* Strong Excel and payroll systems knowledge.
Interested? Apply today!!
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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