Top Payroll Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

Manage end-to-end delivery of multiple complex UK payrolls within a bureau, ensuring accuracy and HMRC compliance. Act as payroll SME advising on legislation, statutory payments, pensions, benefits, share schemes and reconciliations. Analyse outputs, resolve discrepancies, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor colleagues, and contribute to documentation and continuous improvement.

Manage US payroll validations and benefit feed audits (Health & Welfare, 401K, Deferred Comp, HSA). Reconcile payroll reports, perform pre/post payroll validations, respond to employee inquiries via ServiceNow, support payroll year-end and testing, and participate in process improvement projects to ensure timely, accurate pay.

Lead governance of daily timekeeping operations, ensuring accurate, compliant payroll-related timecards and attendance. Resolve timecard issues, drive process adherence, and act as team lead in the manager's absence.

Process payroll accurately and on time, maintain payroll records, calculate overtime/shift pay/commissions/bonuses, apply tax withholdings and deductions, prepare management and regulatory reports, and respond to employee and supervisor payroll inquiries.

Manage relationships with the global payroll partner network, monitor KPIs/SLAs, resolve escalations, drive partner performance improvements, support onboarding and governance, and use data to enable service quality and business growth.

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.

Provide functional expertise for HR and Payroll Oracle systems: resolve Level 2 incidents, implement configuration changes, support quarterly releases, perform regression and UAT testing, maintain data integrity and documentation, deliver end-user training, and identify process and system improvements across HR modules.

Own and manage global payroll operations across 12+ countries: coordinate third-party payroll providers and EORs, run monthly/bi-monthly payroll cycles, ensure accurate payments, taxes and benefits, record journals and reconcile payroll accounts, partner with Treasury and People, resolve employee payroll queries, and drive process improvements.

Provide specialist technical leadership for pension payroll delivery, ensuring accurate, compliant payment runs and statutory reporting. Develop controls, checking procedures and audit-ready records; act as SME for complex payroll scenarios; manage HMRC queries and submissions; mentor and upskill the payroll team to improve processes and service quality.

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.

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.

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.

Manage payroll accounting for ADI-EMEA Streamline payrolls including GL journal entries, balance sheet reconciliations, month-end close, fringe accounting, payroll cash forecasting, and support international payroll with ad hoc reporting and audits.

Lead and modernize global payroll operations and equity administration (Shareworks). Manage a small team, drive HRIS integrations and automation, strengthen payroll controls and compliance, partner with HR Tech/IT/Finance, and resolve complex tax and market-specific payroll issues.

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.

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.

Lead Oracle Cloud Payroll implementations for UK clients, advising on pensions, RTI and auto-enrolment. Deliver configuration (Fast Formula, elements, calculation cards), guide project teams, support pre-sales demos, create thought-leadership content, and assist with data migration and payroll parallel runs.

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

Lead a global Product Strategy & Compliance function for payroll, translating multi-jurisdictional payroll, tax, employment, and labor rules into scalable product capabilities. Build and mentor a team, define governance and operating models, embed compliance-by-design with automation/AI, guide regulatory intelligence and market readiness, and advise senior stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Operations.

Administer payroll and company benefits, support payroll processing and audits, manage benefits administration and employee queries, and handle P&C onboarding/vetting tasks including DBS/BS7858 checks and recordkeeping.

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.

Lead payroll governance, process and system strategy for global payroll transformation. Capture and migrate local processes, run design sessions, collaborate with vendors and IT, support implementations, maintain KPIs, training, audits, and continuous improvement across multiple countries.

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