Senior Payroll Advisor

Senior Payroll Advisor

Salary: £35,000 £ 40,000 + benefits
Location: Romford
Contract: 6-month FTC
Hybrid: 1 day office / 4 days home

The Role

An opportunity for an experienced client payroll professional to manage a portfolio of complex, high-frequency payrolls within an established professional services environment.

This is a senior, client‑facing position where you ll manage payroll delivery, resolve technical queries and act as a trusted point of contact for clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end weekly, monthly and annual client payrolls.
• Handle complex payrolls including benefits, share schemes, pensions and international assignments.
• Manage RTI submissions, HMRC correspondence and year‑end processes.
• Administer auto‑enrolment and complex pension arrangements.
• Advise clients on payroll legislation, statutory payments and holiday pay.
• Support new client onboarding, system implementations and parallel runs.
• Resolve complex payroll queries and provide technical guidance.
• Support and mentor junior payroll colleagues.

Ideal Candidate

• Recent payroll bureau / client payroll experience is essential.
• Strong end-to-end UK payroll knowledge and experience managing multiple client payrolls.
• Confident handling complex payroll queries and dealing directly with clients.
• Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, pensions and compliance.
• IRIS Payroll Professional experience is highly desirable, but not essential.
• CIPP qualified or qualified by experience.
• Strong Excel and payroll systems knowledge.

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