Payroll Implementation Consultant

JGA Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

JGA Recruitment in Birmingham is seeking a Payroll Implementation Consultant to help clients modernise payroll operations and implement leading payroll tech. You will analyse existing setups, advise on improvements, and support deployments of systems like Workday, Oracle, SAP or Dayforce, while building strong client relationships.

This role blends payroll expertise with consulting, transformation and business development, offering a hybrid pattern in the Midlands.

Qualifications

• Strong background in UK payroll operations.
• Understand payroll beyond processing: controls, compliance, systems.
• Knowledge of UK payroll legislation and statutory requirements.
• Excel analysis to identify trends and discrepancies.
• Experience with payroll tech such as Workday, Oracle, SAP or Dayforce.
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills.
• Commercially minded with interest in technology and transformation.
• Experience in consulting, implementation, transformation or payroll tech.
• International payroll exposure beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Advise clients on modernising payroll operations.
• Assess payroll setups and identify gaps, risks and opportunities for change.
• Help clients select and implement payroll and workforce management technology.
• Provide specialist input across payroll projects, audits and transformation programmes.
• Work alongside project teams to deliver complex client engagements from start to finish.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and act as a trusted payroll advisor.
• Support business development through proposals, tenders, presentations and client meetings.
• Contribute to developing new payroll solutions, processes and industry best practice.

Skills

UK payroll operations

Payroll controls

Compliance

Excel data analysis

Stakeholder management

Client-facing consulting

Payroll technology familiarity

Transformation projects

International payroll exposure

Tools

Workday

Oracle

SAP

Dayforce

Job description

Payroll Implementation Consultant

Salary: £36,000 - £50,000

Location: Birmingham

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

• Advise clients on how to improve and modernise their payroll operations
• Assess existing payroll setups and identify gaps, risks and opportunities for change
• Help clients select and implement payroll and workforce management technology
• Provide specialist input across payroll projects, audits and transformation programmes
• Work alongside project teams to help deliver complex client engagements from start to finish
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and act as a trusted payroll advisor
• Support business development through proposals, tenders, presentations and client meetings
• Contribute to developing new payroll solutions, processes and industry best practice

Ideal Candidate

• Experienced payroll professional with a strong background in UK payroll operations
• Someone who understands payroll beyond processing, including controls, compliance, systems and wider business impact
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation and statutory requirements
• Comfortable analysing large volumes of payroll data and using Excel to identify trends, issues and discrepancies
• Confident working with payroll technology and systems, with exposure to platforms such as Workday, Oracle, SAP or Dayforce
• Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work directly with clients
• Naturally curious and commercially minded, with an interest in technology, transformation and improving payroll functions
• Previous experience in consulting, implementation, transformation or payroll technology would be a strong advantage
• International payroll exposure would be beneficial

Ideal for someone who has a strong payroll background but wants to step away from pure processing and move into a more varied, client-facing consulting career.