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Senior Payroll Specialist

Job Posted: 16 days ago

Salary: £ 300 - 400 / Day
Job Type: Contract
Location: Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire

Expire in: 12 days

Job Description

Senior Payroll Specialist (Contract)

📍 Hoddesdon (On-site)
💰 £300–£400 per day
Contract: 3 months

The Role

A short-term contract role supporting a busy payroll function, requiring someone who can hit the ground running in a high-volume, manual processing environment.

You’ll be responsible for assisting with end-to-end payroll activities, focusing heavily on data accuracy, manual calculations, and Excel-based processing.

Key Responsibilities

  * Support end-to-end payroll processing for a high-volume workforce (2000+)

  * Input, check, and reconcile payroll data using Excel

  * Perform manual calculations and validate payroll outputs

  * Maintain and update payroll records accurately

  * Identify and resolve payroll discrepancies

  * Support the payroll team with administrative and data tasks

  * Ensure all payroll activities are completed accurately and to deadline

The Ideal Candidate

  * Experience supporting end-to-end payroll processing

  * Strong Excel skills (testing at interview stage)

  * Confident with manual calculations and high-volume payroll data

  * Highly organised with strong attention to detail

  * Able to quickly learn systems and processes with minimal supervision

  * Comfortable working in a fast-paced, manual environment

  * Proactive, hands-on approach with strong accuracy focus

  * Driving licence preferred due to location

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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