Top Payroll Jobs in London

Own the UK Payroll product roadmap, from requirements and prioritization through development, QA, UAT, beta, and launch. Collaborate with Engineering, Product Design, Sales, and Client Success to deliver impactful customer-facing features. Use user research, data, market trends, and client feedback to guide decisions, track product success metrics, and support growth, retention, compliance, and user experience improvements.

Process payroll inputs across multiple regions, maintain payroll data integrity, support statutory reporting and pension processing, resolve discrepancies with internal stakeholders, ensure compliance, and help develop efficient automated payroll workflows.

Administer ADP payroll and NetSuite ERP across global entities, ensuring accurate payroll, compliant processes, financial data integrity, and reliable integrations. Manage access, configurations, workflows, reporting, system changes, month-end close support, ITGC, and SOX controls. Partner with Finance and HR on payroll cycles, FP&A data flows, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, troubleshooting, and system improvements.

Own end-to-end payroll for UK, ROI, Switzerland and the Netherlands, handling processing, joiners/leavers, statutory reporting, reconciliations, month-end analysis, payroll reporting, and stakeholder coordination to improve processes and compliance.

Manage end-to-end payroll processing for multiple countries, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant payments. Serve as an escalation point, deputize for the team leader, train payroll staff, resolve complex queries, monitor legislative changes, and collaborate with PX, Finance, Treasury, Legal, Tax, and technology teams. Support payroll system improvements, automation, and successful implementation of system changes while maintaining strong employee service and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Administer pension activities across payroll cycles for assigned customers, including contribution calculations, statutory returns, year-end updates, compliance, audits, system testing, and customer queries. The role maintains processing documentation, supports scheme implementations, builds customer relationships, and ensures accurate, timely service delivery while protecting confidential data.

Process weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual payrolls for a varied client portfolio. Responsibilities include starters and leavers, statutory payments, PAYE scheme administration, HMRC RTI submissions, pension deductions and uploads, BACS files, payroll forms, client support, and resolving payroll queries. The specialist will liaise with clients, HMRC, directors, and internal teams while supporting payroll systems and serving as a key contact for the Oxford payroll team.

Manage end-to-end monthly payroll using Workday, including UK PAYE, National Insurance, HMRC reporting, pensions, benefits, statutory deductions, payroll variations, reconciliations, and year-end processes. Liaise with HMRC, Finance, HR, tax advisers, and international payroll providers across multiple jurisdictions. Produce reports, resolve payroll queries, maintain compliance, and improve payroll processes. The role requires strong UK payroll knowledge, global payroll experience, and Workday proficiency.

Execute end-to-end payroll processing for Ireland and support international payroll (e.g., UK). Maintain payroll records, reconcile reports, resolve discrepancies, support audits, assist with system upgrades and process improvements, and respond to employee payroll queries.

Manage complex UK and international client payrolls, ensuring accurate, timely, and compliant processing. Handle HMRC submissions, statutory filings, year-end processes, pensions, benefits, share schemes, and expatriate payrolls. Advise clients on technical payroll matters, support implementations and system enhancements, maintain client relationships, prepare billing information, mentor junior colleagues, and contribute to process improvement.

Manage multiple complex UK payrolls end to end for outsourced-service customers. Provide expert guidance on UK payroll legislation, statutory payments, pensions, benefits in kind, share schemes, taxation, reconciliations, HMRC submissions, and year-end processing. Resolve discrepancies, advise enterprise customers, build trusted relationships, mentor colleagues, and contribute to documentation and continuous improvement.

Manage EMEA payroll operations with external vendors, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll processing. Review payroll data and outputs, resolve discrepancies, coordinate with HR, Finance, Compensation, Benefits, and mobility teams, and support international assignee shadow payrolls. Maintain procedures, respond to payroll queries, manage service-level agreements, and implement process improvements across complex international payroll activities.

Manage multi-country payroll operations, compliance, audits, controls, vendor relationships, payroll analysis, and process improvements. Lead payroll system automation and scalability initiatives while ensuring accurate and timely processing across jurisdictions. Partner with finance, HR, treasury, and external providers, monitor regulatory changes, and mentor a global payroll team in a distributed technology environment.

Own end-to-end UK payroll processing for a portfolio of standard and mid-complexity clients. Responsibilities include statutory payments, pension auto-enrolment, HMRC filings, year-end processing, payment reconciliation, payroll journals, support-ticket resolution, client communication, and identifying process improvements. The role also supports payroll team members, escalates complex issues, and flags product bugs to Engineering.

Lead and manage global payroll operations and systems, ensuring accurate payroll processing, compliance, reconciliations, and reporting. Drive payroll system implementations and automations, resolve employee payroll queries, partner with HR, Legal and Finance on entity setups and international expansion, and develop payroll process documentation and improvements.

Processes and validates payroll across NA, APAC, EMEA, and ANZ regions. Reviews timekeeping records, payroll registers, deductions, garnishments, direct deposits, special payments, and compliance documentation. Supports employees with time and attendance systems, coordinates with third-party payroll providers, prepares management reports, and contributes to payroll process standardization. Roles range from Analyst to Supervisor and leadership levels.

Process accurate, compliant end-to-end payrolls for a portfolio of education-sector clients. Serve as the primary contact for payroll enquiries, resolve discrepancies, produce reports, maintain confidential data, collaborate with internal teams, and improve payroll processes. The role requires UK payroll legislation knowledge, strong customer service, excellent organisation, attention to detail, payroll-system and Excel experience, and ideally IRIS Payroll, Earnie, or CIPP qualification experience.

Leads complex Oracle HCM payroll implementations, designing end-to-end UK payroll solutions and integrating HCM modules. Mentors consultants, facilitates business process architecture workshops, supports testing and Payroll Preview Report processes, advises clients, tracks Oracle releases, collaborates with delivery teams, and contributes to pre-sales demonstrations and proposals.

Manage end-to-end payroll processing for India, validating inputs, preparing MIS reports, coordinating payments and statutory compliance, reconciling payroll with Finance, resolving discrepancies, supporting audits, maintaining confidential records, and improving payroll systems and processes.

Lead and build the finance function: manage external bookkeeping, own month-end close and statutory compliance, design and integrate the finance systems stack (Xero, CRM, payroll), implement spend controls and SOPs, deliver management and board reporting, run cash flow forecasting, and create multi-year financial models to support Series B and project finance.

Lead global payroll operations, transformation initiatives, technology implementations, and large multinational client implementations. Manage senior client and alliance relationships, operational KPIs, SLAs, data validation, reconciliations, compliance, vendor performance, and process automation. Provide mobility analytics and support year-end reporting while mentoring geographically distributed teams and contributing to business development and service expansion.

Manage end-to-end payroll processes across multiple European countries, including payroll controls, validation, salary and tax payments, social security, financial reporting, and issue resolution. Oversee expatriate payroll, mobility, immigration, tax advisors, audits, governance, and continuous improvement. Partner with HR, Finance, payroll teams, and other stakeholders while contributing to European payroll policies, systems, and tools.

Process UK and US payroll, manage payroll journals and employee expenses, reconcile payroll-related balance sheet accounts, handle benefits and statutory payments, calculate VAT and group accruals, and support finance system improvements and special projects. The role requires multi-currency accounting knowledge, familiarity with Employer-of-Record arrangements and NetSuite, and effective collaboration with global stakeholders.

Manage the end-to-end monthly payroll and pensions cycle, including amendments, retroactive calculations, validation, submissions, pension memberships, payments, lump sums, bereavement cases, and HMRC reporting. Resolve complex payroll queries, maintain audit records, support audits, oversee payroll-related work, liaise with employees and stakeholders, and improve payroll and pension processes while ensuring legislative and policy compliance.

Lead technical oversight of UK pension payroll processing, ensuring accurate and timely payments, robust controls, regulatory compliance, audit-ready records, and correct statutory documentation. Provide specialist guidance on complex payroll cases, investigate HMRC queries, manage corrections, and support process improvements. Coach colleagues and strengthen payroll capability across the function.