Top Payroll Jobs in Edinburgh

Manage end-to-end multi-country payroll operations across EMEA, including payroll processing, gross-to-net calculations, reconciliations, statutory compliance, year-end activities, vendor coordination, and audit controls. Validate Oracle HCM integrations, resolve employee payroll cases, support payroll accounting and treasury activities, maintain process documentation, and contribute to system, market-entry, M&A, and continuous-improvement projects.

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.

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.

Coordinate and process multi-country European payroll, especially for Belgium and Nordic countries. Manage payroll inputs, adjustments, terminations, deductions, garnishments, reconciliations, reporting, audits, and employee inquiries. Partner with HR, Finance, payroll vendors, and the Regional Payroll Manager to ensure accurate and timely payroll delivery. Support vendor consolidation, payroll implementations, dashboard improvements, process harmonization, and operational efficiency initiatives.

Own payroll accounting operations across multiple markets, including processing, reconciliations, compliance, reporting, and month-end and quarter-end close activities. Develop accounting policies, internal controls, and scalable process improvements; support automation and financial systems implementations; collaborate with auditors and cross-functional teams; and assist with employee equity grant processing. The role requires strong payroll accounting expertise, technical accounting knowledge, analytical ability, and experience in high-growth or public-company environments.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Lead and manage APAC payroll and HR operations, ensuring accurate, compliant, and timely payroll cycles. Oversee multi-country teams and third-party vendors, implement SOPs and controls, drive continuous improvement, report on SLAs/metrics, support audits, and develop staff performance and processes across the region.

Process payroll for hospitality clients, manage payroll inbox queries, maintain compliant payroll records, escalate complex issues, and support ad hoc payroll tasks and projects.

Provide expert remote support for SAP HR/Payroll applications. Responsibilities include troubleshooting, configuration, and client support for UK and Ireland payroll and related processes.

Lead creation and growth of Namos' Oracle Payroll Bureau managed services across the UK and Ireland. Own strategy, P&L, service delivery, client success, recruitment and scaling of high-performing teams. Drive operational excellence, compliance with UK payroll legislation (HMRC, RTI), pension administration, payments controls, data security, and business continuity while developing recurring revenue payroll offerings.