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Payroll Team Leader

Job Posted: 6 hours ago

Salary: £ 52,000 - 54,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Lewisham, Greater London

Expire in: a month

Job Description

Payroll Team Leader
Salary: £52,000 - £54,000
Location: Catford, London
Hybrid: 2 days office / 3 days home
The Role
A fantastic opportunity to lead a high-volume payroll team delivering payroll for a large public sector organisation, including council employees, schools and pensioners. You'll oversee the end-to-end payroll cycle while driving service quality, compliance and continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
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    Lead and support a team of Senior Payroll Officers.
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    Oversee the end-to-end payroll for 6,500+ employees and high-volume pension payrolls.
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    Resolve complex payroll, pension and statutory payment queries.
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    Ensure compliance with HMRC, payroll legislation and audit requirements.
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    Build strong relationships with schools and internal stakeholders.
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    Monitor payroll performance, improve processes and maintain service standards.
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    Support workflow planning, reporting and continuous improvement initiatives.
Ideal Candidate
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    Proven experience leading or supervising a high-volume payroll team.
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    Experience processing payrolls of 1,000+ employees is essential.
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    Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation, PAYE, pensions and statutory payments.
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    Experience supporting pension processing (LGPS desirable, not essential).
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    Excellent Excel, analytical and problem-solving skills.
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    Confident managing deadlines, stakeholders and complex payroll issues.
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    Customer-focused with a passion for delivering an accurate, efficient payroll service.
A great opportunity for an experienced Payroll Team Leader or Senior Payroll professional looking to manage a large-scale payroll operation in a flexible hybrid role.
Interested? Apply today!!!
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

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