Payroll Implementation Consultant

Company: JGA Recruitment
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Location: Birmingham
Job Description:

Payroll Implementation Consultant

Salary: £36,000 – £50,000

Location: Birmingham

Working Pattern: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities

  • Advise clients on how to improve and modernise their payroll operations
  • Assess existing payroll setups and identify gaps, risks and opportunities for change
  • Help clients select and implement payroll and workforce management technology
  • Provide specialist input across payroll projects, audits and transformation programmes
  • Work alongside project teams to help deliver complex client engagements from start to finish
  • Build relationships with key stakeholders and act as a trusted payroll advisor
  • Support business development through proposals, tenders, presentations and client meetings
  • Contribute to developing new payroll solutions, processes and industry best practice

Ideal Candidate

  • Experienced payroll professional with a strong background in UK payroll operations
  • Someone who understands payroll beyond processing, including controls, compliance, systems and wider business impact
  • Strong knowledge of UK payroll legislation and statutory requirements
  • Comfortable analysing large volumes of payroll data and using Excel to identify trends, issues and discrepancies
  • Confident working with payroll technology and systems, with exposure to platforms such as Workday, Oracle, SAP or Dayforce
  • Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work directly with clients
  • Naturally curious and commercially minded, with an interest in technology, transformation and improving payroll functions
  • Previous experience in consulting, implementation, transformation or payroll technology would be a strong advantage
  • International payroll exposure would be beneficial

Ideal for someone who has a strong payroll background but wants to step away from pure processing and move into a more varied, client-facing consulting career.

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Posted: September 4th, 2026