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Location: Chelmsford
Salary: Up to £35k
Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent
JGA is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Payroll Administrator to join our clients team. In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for managing our
payroll processes and ensuring compliance with all statutory requirements.
If you have a strong background in payroll administration and have experience using ADP iHCM (or other ADP packages), we would love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities:
- Input and update employee records accurately and promptly into the ADP iHCM system.
- Run payroll reports and reconcile them for approval.
- Reconcile HMRC payments to EPS and gateway.
- Administer statutory pay and deductions, ensuring compliance with UK payroll regulations.
- Manage RSUs and stock exercises for employees.
- Ensure compliance with National Minimum Wage (NMW) requirements.
- Prepare data for end-of-tax-year processes and reports.
- Prepare Payroll General Ledger (GL) for upload into the Finance system.
- Coordinate with pension providers to ensure accurate data submission.
- Resolve queries from employees, HR, and other parties, investigating discrepancies in a timely manner.
- Ensure accurate and reliable payroll information is delivered to the business.
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of company policies and compliance standards.
- Support ad-hoc administrative tasks and payroll-related projects as needed.
- Minimum of 3 years of payroll experience, ideally within a fast-paced environment.
- Essential: Experience using ADP iHCM (or other ADP payroll systems in your current role).
- Strong knowledge of payroll administration, including statutory pay, deductions, and compliance with UK tax regulations.
- Experience handling payroll volumes of 1000+ employees (our UK payroll is 1400).
- Ability to reconcile HMRC payments and ensure accurate tax-year end processing.
- Strong attention to detail, with the ability to identify and resolve discrepancies quickly.
- Proficiency in MS Excel and other payroll-related software tools.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to liaise with employees, HR, and external parties.
- Ability to work independently, manage time effectively, and prioritize tasks.
- Flexible hybrid model (4 days in the office, 1 day remote).
- Competitive salary of up to £35k.
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 are also committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are a specialist Payroll and HR 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.
