Senior Payroll Administrator

JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

JGA Recruitment Group is working with an established professional services business to appoint a Senior Payroll Administrator to join its growing payroll team. This client-facing role manages your own portfolio of clients, delivering payroll from start to finish and offering payroll advice during onboarding and ongoing support.

You will work in a hybrid pattern (3 days in the office, 2 days from home) with 9:00–17:30 hours, handling end-to-end payroll, RTI submissions, auto-enrolment, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of payroll experience in a practice environment.
• Experience managing your own portfolio of client payrolls.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end payrolls for a portfolio of clients with accuracy.
• Process starters, leavers, statutory payments and variable pay.
• Submit RTI and ensure payroll compliance.
• Oversee auto-enrolment and pension processes across schemes.
• Be the main contact for client payroll queries and provide practical advice.
• Attend client meetings and build long-term relationships.
• Support onboarding of new clients and transition payroll data.
• Advise on salary sacrifice, NI, benefits in kind and related payroll laws.

Skills

Payroll experience

Practice payroll

Client management

UK payroll legislation

BrightPay experience

Tools

BrightPay

Payroll software

Job description

Working Pattern: Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days from home

Hours: 9.00am-5.30pm

*Must be experienced in a accountancy practice environment.*

JGA Recruitment Group is working with an established professional services business to appoint a Senior Payroll Administrator to join its growing payroll team.

This is a client-facing payroll role, managing your own portfolio of clients and taking ownership of payroll delivery from start to finish. Alongside processing, you'll provide payroll advice, support new client onboarding and build trusted relationships with your clients.

The Role

• Manage end-to-end payrolls for a portfolio of clients, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery.
• Process starters, leavers, statutory payments and variable pay.
• Complete RTI submissions and ensure payroll compliance.
• Manage auto-enrolment and pension processes across a range of schemes.
• Act as the main point of contact for client payroll queries and provide clear, practical advice.
• Attend client meetings and build strong, long-term relationships.
• Support the onboarding of new clients, including gathering and transitioning payroll data.
• Advise on areas including salary sacrifice, National Insurance, Benefits in Kind and wider payroll legislation.
• Manage multiple payroll deadlines and competing priorities effectively.

About You

• You'll ideally have 5+ years' payroll experience, with a background in practice payroll and experience managing your own portfolio of clients.
• Confident managing client relationships and handling complex payroll queries.
• Technically strong, with a good understanding of UK payroll legislation.
• Experienced with multi-client payroll environments and ideally BrightPay or similar software.
• Comfortable managing pensions and auto-enrolment.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines without compromising accuracy.
• Professional, approachable and confident communicating with clients.

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. We are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist payroll, HR & Reward recruitment agency and recruitment business as defined in the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003 (our business). These statements together with our privacy notices set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.