Top Payroll Jobs in Manchester

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.

Provides administrative support for NHS pension services, including data entry, record maintenance, benefit statement production, pension scheme updates, refund processing, retirement applications, mail handling, and customer query resolution. The role requires accurate processing, clear communication, strong Microsoft Office skills, and adherence to established procedures and service-level agreements while supporting senior administrators.

Payroll Apprentice responsible for processing payrolls and pensions for diverse clients, handling stakeholder queries, maintaining accurate records, learning payroll legislation, checking data, and supporting client relationships. The role includes fully funded apprenticeship training, professional development, and progression within an accounting practice.

Lead Germany payroll operations across multiple legal entities, ensuring accurate and timely payroll, tax compliance, statutory filings, benefits processing, financial reporting, controls, and audit readiness. Advise HR and country stakeholders, manage outsourced payroll providers, resolve employee inquiries, validate payroll calculations, oversee payments and reconciliations, and support other EMEA payroll activities. Develop junior staff and maintain effective operating procedures and documentation.

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.

Process and distribute accurate employee payroll, including wages, bonuses, deductions, tax withholdings, and reporting. Manage EMEA payrolls, especially Luxembourg, while supporting compliance, audits, data accuracy, process improvements, and employee inquiries. Collaborate with stakeholders, resolve payroll issues, and work independently. Strong Excel skills are required; experience with SAP, Oracle, and payroll platforms such as NGA, Alight, or Strada is advantageous.

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.

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.

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.

Own end-to-end payroll and improve People Operations across the employee lifecycle. The role redesigns manual processes, improves data flows between payroll and HR systems, uses automation and AI, and implements reward and benefits initiatives. It requires discretion, strong systems thinking, independent judgment, process improvement experience, and clear communication with employees and stakeholders.

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.

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.

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.

Manage and oversee accurate, timely payroll processing for EMEA employees through a third-party provider. Responsibilities include reviewing payroll data, calculating overtime and premiums, applying country-specific tax and social insurance regulations, maintaining payroll records, providing monthly payroll instructions, and resolving employee payroll issues. The role requires strong payroll experience, European entity exposure, organizational and communication skills, customer-facing capability, teamwork, and advanced Excel proficiency.

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.

Process up to five weekly and monthly payrolls across Group companies, ensuring accurate and timely HMRC RTI submissions. Prepare payroll reports, respond to employee tax and National Insurance queries, audit payroll data for compliance, maintain confidentiality, and help improve payroll processes and procedures. The role works 22.5 hours weekly from Monday to Wednesday and involves supporting subsidiary business units with different operational practices.

Process up to five weekly and monthly payrolls across group companies, ensuring accurate and timely HMRC RTI submissions. Prepare payroll reports, support payment deadlines, respond to employee tax and National Insurance queries, audit payroll data for compliance, maintain confidentiality, and help improve payroll processes and procedures.

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.

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.