UK Payroll Senior Associate
Employer Location Belfast, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 19 Jun 2026 View more categoriesView less categories Sector Salary band Contract type Hours Where will they be working You need to or to save a job.
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About this role
This role is ideal for an experienced, driven UK payroll professional who thrives in a client‑facing environment and is passionate about delivering a high‑quality payroll service. You will be part of a collaborative payroll team responsible for processing and reviewing approximately 350 weekly and monthly UK payrolls, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and excellent client experience at all times.
You will combine strong technical payroll knowledge with effective communication, supporting clients and internal teams while acting as a trusted subject matter expert. Attention to detail, organisation, and the ability to manage competing deadlines are key to success in this role.
What your days will look like
1. Manage end-to-end UK payroll processing, including calculations, validation checks, reconciliations and final reviews, ensuring accuracy, efficiency and a consistently high-quality service across weekly and monthly payrolls.
2. Maintain compliance by applying correct tax and National Insurance treatment, submitting RTI filings to HMRC, uploading pension contributions and overseeing year-end activities such as P60s, P11Ds and statutory deadlines.
3. Act as a trusted payroll subject matter expert, responding to client and internal queries with clear guidance, resolving issues with HMRC and providers, and supporting colleagues to meet service levels.
4. Support continuous improvement through client onboarding, documentation and process mapping, payroll projects, system enhancements, and training on legislative updates, system changes and more efficient ways of working.
This role is for you If
5. You bring strong end-to-end UK payroll knowledge and experience in a client-facing environment, with the confidence to manage multiple payrolls accurately under pressure and to tight deadlines.
6. You communicate clearly and professionally, with excellent written and verbal skills, and enjoy solving problems through critical thinking, sound judgement and a proactive, independent approach.
7. You are highly organised, detail-focused and adaptable, able to balance collaboration with personal accountability while confidently managing your workload and responding to changing priorities.
8. You have strong Excel skills, are comfortable using PowerPoint, committed to continuous development, flexible in supporting the wider team. CIPP qualified or an equivalent qualification is desirable.
What you'll receive from us:
No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.
We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.
Company
In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.
Our set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade.
They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees.
We’re a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.
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