Payroll Consultant

JGA Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

JGA Recruitment Group Ltd is partnering with a leading global professional services organisation to recruit a Payroll Consultant / Senior Consultant in London. The role offers hybrid working and a permanent contract, with a focus on payroll transformation, technology advisory, and implementing payroll improvements for major clients.

You will review, redesign and optimize payroll and workforce management processes, advise on compliance, governance and best practice, and contribute to pre-sales

Qualifications

• UK payroll experience with full payroll cycle knowledge.
• Strong understanding of UK payroll legislation and compliance.
• Excel and payroll data analysis skills.
• Experience with payroll controls, governance and audit.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver end-to-end payroll process reviews and recommendations.
• Support payroll transformation and technology implementation projects.
• Advise clients on payroll processes, controls and compliance.
• Assist with RFPs, vendor selection and pre-sales activity.
• Analyze payroll data to identify improvement opportunities.
• Build strong client relationships and present recommendations.

Skills

UK payroll experience

Payroll legislation knowledge

Excel

Payroll data analysis

Stakeholder management

Payroll implementation

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Dayforce

International payroll

Tools

SAP

Oracle

Workday

Dayforce

Job description

Payroll Consultant / Senior Consultant

£60,000+

London

Hybrid

Permanent

We’re working with a leading global professional services organisation that is growing its Payroll & Workforce Management consulting practice.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced payroll professional to move into consulting, working on payroll transformation, technology, advisory and implementation projects with a range of major organisations.

The Role

You’ll use your payroll expertise to help clients review, improve and transform their payroll and workforce management functions.

Projects can include payroll process reviews, compliance, technology implementations, vendor selection and outsourced payroll transformations.

The role will also involve:

• Delivering end-to-end payroll process reviews and recommendations
• Supporting payroll transformation and technology implementation projects
• Advising clients on payroll processes, controls, compliance and best practice
• Supporting RFPs, vendor selection and pre-sales activity
• Analysing payroll data and identifying opportunities for improvement
• Building strong client relationships and presenting recommendations
• Working collaboratively across payroll, technology and consulting teams
• Contributing to thought leadership, seminars and business development

About You

We’re looking for an experienced payroll professional who understands the operational detail but is keen to develop their consulting and advisory career.

You’ll ideally have:

• Strong UK payroll experience and knowledge of the full payroll cycle
• In-depth understanding of UK payroll legislation and compliance
• Strong Excel and payroll data analysis skills
• Experience with payroll controls, governance and audit
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, Workday or Dayforce would be advantageous
• Payroll implementation or transformation experience would be highly desirable
• International payroll experience would be beneficial

Interested?

If you're an experienced payroll professional looking to take the next step into consulting, transformation and payroll technology, this is an excellent opportunity to broaden your expertise while working with major organisations.

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.