Top Payroll Jobs in Manchester

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.

Own strategy, roadmap, and delivery for the Time Off product within the Payroll Ecosystem. Collaborate with Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Sales, and customers to translate complex compliance and payroll requirements into scalable, enterprise-ready solutions. Drive discovery, prioritization, launch, and adoption using qualitative and quantitative insights while ensuring configurability, performance, and usability across global markets.

Manage day-to-day payroll across in-house, managed-service, and outsourced platforms for multiple countries. Ensure statutory compliance, execute monthly payroll approvals, reporting, payments and year-end tasks. Liaise with vendors, support audits, administer expatriate payroll, share plans and stock options, and drive payroll process improvements while maintaining data protection and governance.

The Payroll Officer handles payroll operations, system implementations, compliance with UK legislation, and reporting, while collaborating with various teams.

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

Support pensioner payroll operations by loading and reconciling scheme data, managing buy-in payments and true-up calculations, testing and documenting processes, maintaining audit trails and regulatory compliance, and liaising with internal teams and third parties to ensure accurate, timely, customer-focused service.

Serve as the bridge between payroll stakeholders and engineering: elicit and decompose payroll requirements, produce detailed functional specs and workflows, ensure compliance and payment security, drive agile delivery, triage escalations, and balance maintenance with new feature development to improve payroll accuracy and scalability.

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 and verify payroll data to ensure employees are paid accurately and on time; handle payslip, expense and salary queries; enter sickness, P45s, deductions and changes; ensure compliance with legislation and company policy; support payroll system updates, continuous improvement and ad-hoc tasks for the Pay Services Manager.

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.

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.

Support Group Payroll Manager by coordinating UK and ROW payrolls, producing journals for Oracle, managing internal/external payroll queries, liaising with Global Mobility, P&C and outsourced providers, and maintaining payroll processes, compliance and documentation for a six-month part-time assignment.

The Payroll Accountant oversees payroll processing, maintains salary records, manages cash floats, and ensures adherence to financial controls. They support HR and comply with policies while providing assistance and training to crew members.

The Payroll Analyst ensures accurate payroll processing, compliance, and support for payroll operations, audits, and stakeholder inquiries while leading process improvements.

The Senior Payroll Specialist assists the Payroll Manager with payroll processing, tax compliance, and provides support in payroll reviews and reporting.

Manage preparatory payroll across international entities (Germany primary, plus France/Spain), liaise with external payroll/EOR/PEO providers, resolve employee payroll queries, automate HRIS-payroll workflows, calculate commissions/bonuses with RevOps, and support Finance with reporting, audits, and statutory compliance.

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.

Process timesheets, assist with weekly/fortnightly/monthly payroll runs, resolve employee payroll queries, reconcile leave records, set up new starters and calculate termination pays, and prepare standard and ad-hoc payroll reports while ensuring compliance with legislation, awards, contracts and company policy.

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 end-to-end payroll operations for multiple European countries, coordinating vendors, validating calculations, maintaining employee payroll data, reconciling reports and ledgers, supporting payroll payments and audits, responding to employee inquiries, and driving payroll process improvements and compliance.

The Global Payroll Operations Partner manages international payroll, optimizes processes, ensures compliance, supports employee inquiries, and collaborates with finance and external partners.

Manage payroll bureau pensions operations for multiple customers: process pension contributions and returns, respond to pay and pension queries, ensure statutory compliance, support implementations, and maintain customer relationships and data security.

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.

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