Assistant Payroll Manager

JGA Recruitment; Harrow; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd in Harrow, London is seeking an experienced Assistant Payroll Manager to join an established accountancy practice. This senior, hands-on role will be the number two to the Payroll Manager and will involve managing a portfolio of around 500 client payrolls, primarily small businesses with 1-50 employees, in a busy bureau environment.

The role is permanent, full-time with a hybrid working pattern: three days in the office and two days at home.

Qualifications

• Strong bureau/accountancy practice experience in UK payroll.
• Extensive end-to-end UK payroll processing experience.
• Ability to independently manage a large client payroll portfolio.
• Solid knowledge of UK payroll legislation, pensions and statutory payments.
• Experience reviewing or checking other payroll professionals' work.

Responsibilities

• Manage a large portfolio of weekly, monthly and annual client payrolls.
• Process starters, leavers, SSP, SMP, SPP and other adjustments.
• Manage pensions and auto-enrolment requirements.
• Independently manage client payrolls from onboarding through delivery.
• Review and sign off payroll work by team members.
• Liaise with clients, HMRC, pension providers and statutory bodies.
• Ensure payrolls meet deadlines, SLAs and compliance requirements.
• Work with an offshore payroll team to support portfolio delivery.
• Maintain strong technical knowledge of UK payroll legislation.

Skills

Payroll bureau experience

UK payroll processing

Portfolio management

Payroll legislation knowledge

Peer-review experience

Tools

BrightPay

Xero

Sage

Job description

Assistant Payroll Manager

Salary: Up to £45,000 + discretionary bonus

Location: Harrow, London

Hybrid: 3 days office / 2 days home

Contract: Permanent, Full-Time

The Role

An opportunity for an experienced bureau payroll professional to join an established accountancy practice as the number two to the Payroll Manager.

This is a senior, hands-on processing role with responsibility for a portfolio of approximately 500 client payrolls, predominantly smaller businesses with 1-50 employees.

Key Responsibilities

• * Manage a large portfolio of weekly, monthly and annual client payrolls.
• * Process starters, leavers, SSP, SMP, SPP and other payroll adjustments.
• * Manage pensions and auto-enrolment requirements.
• * Independently manage client payrolls from onboarding through to ongoing delivery.
• * Review and sign off payroll work completed by other team members where required.
• * Liaise directly with clients, HMRC, pension providers and other statutory bodies.
• * Ensure payrolls meet agreed deadlines, SLAs and compliance requirements.
• * Work closely with an offshore payroll team to support wider portfolio delivery.
• * Maintain strong technical knowledge of UK payroll legislation.

Ideal Candidate

• * Strong payroll bureau/accountancy practice experience is essential.
• * Extensive end-to-end UK payroll processing experience.
• * Able to independently manage a large portfolio of client payrolls.
• * Strong technical knowledge of UK payroll legislation, pensions and statutory payments.
• * Experience reviewing or checking other payroll professionals' work.

  Ideal Candidate

  • * Strong payroll bureau/accountancy practice experience is essential.
  • * Extensive end-to-end UK payroll processing experience.
  • * Able to independently manage a large portfolio of client payrolls.
  • * Strong technical knowledge of UK payroll legislation, pensions and statutory payments.
  • * Experience reviewing or checking other payroll professionals' work.
  • * Previous team management experience is not essential.
  • * BrightPay, Xero and/or Sage experience would be advantageous.
  • * Suitable for an experienced Senior Payroll Specialist, Payroll Supervisor or Payroll Team Leader looking for their next step.

  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.