Top Payroll Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

Coordinate global payroll delivery for a portfolio of clients, working with in-country partners to ensure accurate and timely processing. Responsibilities include customer communication, governance calls, performance reporting, payroll manuals, calendars, checklists, query resolution, and issue escalation. The role requires strong customer service, administration, attention to detail, communication, teamwork, and proficiency with Excel and business systems. Payroll experience is advantageous, but training is provided.

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 end-to-end payroll processing across multiple European countries using Deel. Validate payroll inputs and outputs, process payments, perform reconciliations, support compliance and audits, maintain employee records, resolve payroll queries, prepare reporting, and improve payroll systems and controls while partnering with HR, Finance, Legal, IT, and external providers.

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.

Manage end-to-end UK payrolls for a portfolio of clients, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely processing. Responsibilities include payroll checks and reconciliations, discrepancy resolution, client governance meetings, performance reporting, payroll documentation, calendars, query resolution, and continuous process improvement. The role requires strong UK payroll legislation knowledge, numerical ability, attention to detail, customer service skills, organization, and proficiency with payroll systems and Microsoft Excel.

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.

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.

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.

Leads EMEA payroll operations across multiple countries, ensuring accurate, compliant, consistent delivery through external partners. Manages distributed payroll teams and managers, oversees escalations, mitigates operational risks, strengthens controls, monitors performance metrics, drives standardization and continuous improvement, and collaborates with Finance, Contracts, Payments, employees, clients, and delivery partners.

Implement and configure enterprise-scale Workday Payroll solutions for global customers. Gather requirements, design aligned solutions, manage workloads independently, collaborate with delivery teams, support junior consultants, and deliver consulting and application management services within agreed SLAs. Build customer relationships, communicate effectively, maintain quality and confidentiality, improve tools and processes, and support customer-site engagements with minimal travel.

Lead post-deployment Workday Compensation and Advanced Compensation implementations: configure and optimize Workday, advise clients, manage delivery, lead functional workstreams, mentor juniors, and support continuous improvement across consulting and application management services.

Own the Global Payroll and Employer of Record product line, including roadmap, customer discovery, prioritization, cross-functional execution, internal tooling, and applied AI. Lead payroll product strategy across countries and engines, translate customer and operational feedback into direction, and scale a product team of two to three PMs. Partner globally with engineering, design, sales, customer success, and operations while reporting directly to the CEO.

This role involves providing legal counsel for product compliance, specifically for HRIS and AI products, while managing cross-jurisdictional legal issues and relationships with external counsel.

Lead global payroll strategy and a multi-year transformation to standardize, automate and consolidate vendors. Build and manage a global payroll team, own payroll operations, governance, controls and compliance across multiple jurisdictions, drive Workday integration and automation, manage stakeholder relationships, and act as senior escalation for payroll risks and audits.

Serve as the SAP UK Payroll functional expert, analysing UK legislative changes, designing functional solutions, configuring SAP HCM Payroll, producing functional specifications, validating and testing payroll deliverables, and advising Public Sector customers. Work with development and QA teams in Agile delivery, mentor colleagues on payroll testing, and support complex payroll scenarios including RTI, multiple employment, sequencing, and backdated pay awards.

Coordinate group payroll processes across UK and rest-of-world, liaise with Global Mobility, P&C and outsourced providers, handle payroll queries and calculations, prepare journals for Oracle, update payroll procedures, and support meetings and implementation.

Drive new business acquisition and partnerships in the global payroll/EOR segment. Lead complex enterprise, multi-product cross-border sales, build and maintain a qualified pipeline, mentor junior sales staff, develop go-to-market strategy, collaborate cross-functionally, resolve commercial/technical issues, and educate stakeholders on product suite and APIs.

Manage accurate, timely payroll processing for European countries, ensuring compliance with local labor and tax laws. Validate timecards, audit payroll registers, resolve discrepancies, support T&A training, create SOPs, implement payroll policies, and lead process improvement projects while partnering with stakeholders to address payroll inquiries.

The Junior Payroll Purser assists with payroll processing, cash management, foreign currency exchange, and time and attendance audits aboard Celebrity Cruises ships.

Lead end-to-end implementations of Workday Payroll for UK & Ireland, act as trusted advisor, gather requirements, configure solutions, support testing, deliver knowledge transfer, and provide post-production support while collaborating with cross-functional consulting teams.