Top Payroll Jobs in Manchester

Lead technical product demonstrations, discovery sessions, and value-based conversations throughout the sales cycle. Partner with Account Executives and cross-functional teams to develop deal strategies, address objections, communicate business outcomes, and provide customer feedback to Product. Support team growth through enablement, new-hire training, demo asset creation, and messaging playbooks while adapting to changing priorities.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Supports UK payroll transformation projects, including system migration, data cleansing and validation, process mapping, testing, UAT, system configuration, reconciliation, compliance controls, stakeholder coordination, and change management. Works across ADP, Civica, and Sage payroll systems while partnering with HR, Finance, IT, vendors, and payroll teams to modernize processes and ensure accurate statutory calculations and successful transition to business-as-usual operations.

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 weekly, fortnightly, and monthly payrolls for multi-site employee groups; reconcile timesheets, pensions, expenses, bonuses, and payroll reports; complete RTI, P11D, and year-end reporting; maintain audit-ready records; support payroll system implementations; ensure UK legislative compliance; provide employee payroll support; and collaborate with HR, Finance, IT, and site teams.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Process end-to-end payroll, maintain accurate payroll and T&A data, produce payslips, review exceptions, manage statutory deductions and pensions, assist BACS payments, liaise with HMRC, respond to employee payroll queries, and support payroll projects and improvements.

Lead global payroll strategy, governance, and delivery across multiple countries. Oversee payroll systems, vendors, compliance, controls, and transformation projects. Partner with People, Finance, Legal, and Tax to manage risk, support organizational change, and ensure timely, accurate payroll. Build a high-performing, geographically dispersed team and drive standardization, automation, and scalable payroll operations.

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.

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.