Payroll Bureau Services

We have over 30 years’ experience of carrying out payroll related services, initially as an additional service to a large client who had decided to outsource its payroll which then grew into a full payroll bureau service to employer clients.

The payroll business was transferred to a separate legal entity during 2017, reflecting growth, personnel changes and the impact of both recent and impending legislative changes (Real Time Information, Workplace Pensions and GDPR).

The payroll function transferred from Kilmarnock to Dalry office during 2017 and went ‘paperless’ from the start of the 2019/20 fiscal year. The manager was already set-up to work remotely prior to the pandemic, with all personnel moving to a remote working model prior to the start of the first ‘lockdown’ in March 2020. We were able to react immediately and assist our clients in exceptionally difficult circumstances with ‘furlough scheme’ and other COVID grant support.

The core business is a full outsourced payroll bureau and pensions administration service and we also carry out the following work:

Assistance with payroll related payments.
CIS processing – subcontractor payments/tax and offset of tax deducted by contractors.
Employer related grant claims assistance.
Ad-hoc work (eg holiday cover for client in-house payroll).
General guidance on systems, software and HR matters (we do not provide formal HR or employment law advice but can refer clients to appropriate specialists).
Assistance with HMRC enquiries into client payroll tax related matters.

We act as payroll bureau agent and it is the client’s responsibility, as employer, to ensure compliance with employment law, pensions and payroll tax related legislation – suggested links:

croner.co.uk/resources/employment-law/legislation-list/

www.gov.uk/paye-for-employers

www.thepensionsregulator.gov.uk

We do not provide an HR service – client employers are responsible for recruitment, employee contracts and maintaining employment records (including holidays, illness and other leave). We use a secure portal for uploading and downloading confidential payroll data. Clients who prefer not to use this format, do so at their own risk in terms of data protection. The portal is not a data storage system – clients should keep their own records as legally required.

The Payroll Team

Lorraine Blair

Payroll manager and stakeholder since 2018, but involved with JRD Partnership since 2005, running the Dalry office. Lorraine was brought in to run the payroll function in 2017, having had many years’ experience of payroll working for a large employer of over 100 personnel in industry. She has strong working relationships with our clients and can deal directly and effectively with HMRC, where appropriate.

Kirsty Skene

Payroll assistant, joined JRD Partnership as a trainee at our Dalry office in 2019 but moved to payroll following a secondment during the pandemic, having developed an interest in this work. She was promoted to main payroll assistant in 2022.

Lynne Erskine

Pensions administration (including the set-up of NEST pensions, payroll department support and customer account administration. Lynne is based at our main office in Kilmarnock and has been with the payroll company since 2018 (employed by JRD Partnership since 2008). Clients who require manual data (payslips etc) are provided by Lynne.

The payroll team is supported by two of our chartered accountants - Ken McCracken (payroll company director), and Graham Love (Associate Director of JRD Partnership), who also deals with The Pensions Regulator technical issues.

Testimonial

“JRD Partnership has dealt with our payroll services and pensions administration for over 5 years. Lorraine Blair and her payroll team go far and beyond the technical aspects of the service, which they carry out efficiently and effectively, but also provide us with flexible and approachable support which we require as a large employer in the care sector.”

Angela Magee - Proprietor, Visiting Angelz (Renfrewshire)

Payroll Team Contact details

Tel: 01294 832136
Mob: 07552 334489
Email: payroll@jrdpartnership.co.uk

Customer account administration and bill payments are dealt with at the head office:
Tel: 01563 525024
Email: accounts@jrdpartnership.co.uk