Payroll, Finance & Compliance Coordinator

Synergi Recruitment; Watford; On-site; GBP 31,500 - 38,500; Full time

Job summary

Synergi Recruitment is seeking a Payroll, Finance & Compliance Coordinator to join our Watford team (WD24). The role offers up to £35,000 annually and involves end-to-end contractor payroll, AR management, compliance checks and system support.

You’ll use Excel and Xero daily, chase POs, and maintain accurate records while ensuring IR35 compliance in a fast-moving engineering recruitment environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Excel skills and hands-on experience with payroll systems.
• Organised and proactive with a keen eye for detail and deadlines.
• Clear communicator able to chase clients and coordinate with internal teams.

Responsibilities

• Payroll: end-to-end weekly contractor payroll, timesheets, invoicing, and data entry in Xero.
• Accounts receivable: manage AR ledger, credit control, and cashflow input.
• Compliance: Right to Work checks, document storage, IR35 considerations.
• Systems & support: maintain Bullhorn/internals and assist the Director as needed.

Skills

Excel

Clear communication

Tools

Xero

Bullhorn

Job description

Payroll, Finance & Compliance Coordinator

Watford, WD24 | Up to £35,000

Every placement we make runs through this role.

At Synergi Recruitment we supply engineers to manufacturing and FMCG businesses across the UK. Contractors get paid because someone runs payroll properly. Clients get invoiced because someone stays on top of the ledger. Placements stand up to scrutiny because someone got the compliance right.

That someone is you — and you'll own it, not sit in a queue behind three other people who also touch it.

What you'll run

• Contractor payroll. Weekly payroll end to end — timesheets in, checked, invoiced, loaded into Xero. Client invoicing, chasing POs where you need to, reconciliations, and quarterly reporting.
• Accounts receivable. The AR ledger is yours. Credit control, chasing overdues, keeping clients inside terms, and feeding into cashflow forecasting.
• Compliance. Right to Work checks for contractors and candidates, keeping compliance documentation complete and correctly stored, managing rep forms and client order forms digitally, and making sure we’re on the right side of IR35.
• Systems and support. Keeping Bullhorn and our internal systems accurate, plus finance and operational projects and some direct support for the Director.

It's varied. Some weeks are payroll-heavy, some are compliance-heavy, and you'll be trusted to manage that yourself.

What you'll need

Strong Excel and hands‑on experience with Xero or similar. Genuinely organised — the kind of person who notices the timesheet that doesn't add up before it becomes a problem. Clear communicator, because you'll be chasing clients for POs and payment and it needs doing well.

Helpful, not essential: Bullhorn, a working understanding of IR35, and a couple of years in recruitment finance, contractor payroll or compliance admin. If you've done contractor payroll in an agency before, you'll recognise everything here on day one.

Who fits

Someone who likes structure and gets a bit of satisfaction from a clean reconciliation. Proactive enough to sort things out rather than escalation them. Comfortable in a fast-moving business where the week doesn't always go to plan.

Why Synergi

We're a specialist engineering and manufacturing recruiter with a growing contractor book — which is exactly why this role exists. You'll be close to the Director, visible in a small team, and your work will obviously matter. No being buried in a shared services function.