Payroll & Compliance Lead

Aldwych Consulting; Southwick; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Aldwych Consulting is seeking a skilled Payroll & Compliance Manager to lead weekly and monthly payroll operations in a UK-based role. The position covers pensions, benefits, and payroll compliance across projects.

The successful candidate will oversee payroll governance, ensure regulatory compliance, and provide MI to senior stakeholders while supporting HR, Finance and procurement with compliance matters.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing complex weekly and monthly payrolls in a UK business.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, taxation, NI, pensions and statutory payments.
• Experience reviewing, reconciling and signing off payroll.
• Experience with payroll reporting, cost allocation and general ledger reconciliations.
• Good working knowledge of pension auto-enrolment and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end weekly and monthly payroll processes, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and compliance.
• Review and authorise payroll calculations, reconciliations and statutory payments.
• Ensure compliance with UK payroll legislation and statutory requirements.
• Manage pension administration, auto-enrolment submissions and regulatory reporting.
• Produce regular payroll reports and MI for senior stakeholders.

Skills

UK payroll legislation

Payroll processing

Pensions administration

IR35 understanding

Excel skills

Analytical skills

Cross-department communication

Education

CIPP credential

Payroll qualification

Tools

Miracle Pay

PeopleHR

Job description

Aldwych Consulting is seeking a skilled Payroll & Compliance Manager to lead weekly and monthly payroll operations in a UK-based role. The position covers pensions, benefits, and payroll compliance across projects.

The successful candidate will oversee payroll governance, ensure regulatory compliance, and provide MI to senior stakeholders while supporting HR, Finance and procurement with compliance matters.