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Posted 24 July, 2026

Payroll Senior

LGS Vision Recruitment
Ipswich, ENG, GB Full Time

Job Description

The opportunity

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  • As a Payroll Senior you will have the ability and motivation needed to:
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  • Begin to take ownership of your own portfolio with support from your manager
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  • Support in delivering revenue and profitability targets
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  • Begin to develop enduring client relationships
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Day to day duties

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  • Manage the end-to-end payroll process and auto enrolment compliance for a portfolio of clients
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  • Deal with all associated payroll processing tasks required for processing to completion of the payroll process
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  • Manage client expectations
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  • Develop relationships with your clients also ensuring effective communication with the wider offices, HMRC and other third-party providers
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  • Working as part of the wider team to review work produced by more junior team members and support the Payroll Manager
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  • Leading by example in regards to attitude and processing of payrolls, so others in the team will follow suit
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  • Being the first point of contact to the team to assist and support the team in responding to queries from clients, HMRC, 3rd party providers etc.
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  • Support in regards to legislation and system queries
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  • Completing regular training for the wider team, which could range from information about legislation to systems
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  • Peer checking of payrolls
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  • Streamlining any current processes within the team/ Updating and maintaining payroll records/files
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  • Any ad-hoc duties or projects that may be necessary
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  • Producing and developing ad hoc financial and operational reporting as needed
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What are we looking for?

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  • Over two years’ experience in payroll with experience using STAR (experience in a bureau environment would be highly desirable)
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  • End to end Payroll processing experience including pensions, benefits and statutory payments
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  • Must have the ability to manually calculate a payroll
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  • High level of accuracy and attention to detail across both manual and systems based work
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  • A natural ability to coordinate, prioritise and multitask with little supervision
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  • Strong customer focused approach, ability to handle customer queries by telephone and email
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  • Be able to adapt to a highly changeable environment
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  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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  • Ability to work under pressure whilst meeting tight deadlines
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  • In depth knowledge and understanding of payroll legislation, processing, and auto enrolment regulations
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  • Effective client management experience and steps towards staff management
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  • Mentorship and coaching experience to support other team members to ensure they perform work duties
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  • Ideally with a CIPP Foundation degree qualification or working towards this qualification
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