Top Payroll Jobs in Manchester

Manage international payroll operations for the UK, Spain, and expanding EU countries. Responsibilities include payroll processing, equity and ESPP taxation, garnishments, compliance audits, month-end close, year-end reporting, employee support, and coordination with People Operations, Finance, Legal, Tax, and external providers. The role also supports payroll system processes, financial statement audits, and continuous process improvements.

Supports client payroll and pensions operations by organizing documentation, maintaining data and trackers, verifying audit logs and HMRC/BACS transmissions, managing P60 distributions, archiving records, and resolving queries with payroll teams, schools, and pension schemes. The role includes administrative and scheduling support for Payroll Managers and offers structured training and progression opportunities in payroll, HR, or technology.

Process NHS payroll inputs, validate calculations, produce payroll reports and payslips, submit authorized BACS payments, and ensure accurate, timely, legally compliant payroll processing. The role handles client queries, communicates with HMRC, NHS Pensions, and courts, completes year-end returns, and follows established NHS payroll procedures while supporting customers professionally.

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.

Manage the end-to-end monthly UK payroll cycle and pension administration, including amendments, retroactive calculations, validation, submissions, audits, employee queries, pensioner payments, bereavement cases, and HMRC reporting. The role ensures compliance with payroll legislation and organisational policies, supports the People Coordinator, liaises with Finance and SPPA, maintains confidential records, and identifies process improvements. This is a part-time, 12-month fixed-term position.

Leads a payroll bureau team delivering accurate, compliant, and timely payroll services for clients. Responsibilities include coaching and developing staff, managing performance, meeting SLAs and KPIs, resolving escalated client issues, maintaining payroll legislation compliance, strengthening client relationships, and improving processes. The role requires extensive end-to-end payroll experience, knowledge of PAYE and pensions, leadership experience, strong communication, organisation, and attention to detail.

Processes client payrolls accurately and on schedule while providing guidance on payroll legislation, quality assurance, compliance, client queries, workload planning, reporting, and continuous improvement. The role also mentors payroll executives and trainees, supports team coordination, resolves escalated issues, and contributes to high-quality bureau service delivery.

Manage payroll implementations for schools and Multi-Academy Trusts, including parallel payroll runs, detailed YTD reconciliations, data validation, system audits, compliance checks, and discrepancy resolution. The role ensures accurate payroll builds, adherence to UK payroll and pension legislation, and effective operational handover. Responsibilities also include maintaining system frameworks, preparing reconciliation documentation and payroll journals, supporting stakeholders, and following UK GDPR and information security protocols.

Lead HR and payroll data migration and integration engagements across SAP SuccessFactors, Workday, and Oracle HCM. Define migration strategies, cleanse and transform legacy data, build and reconcile loads, design integrations, support testing and cutover, and establish monitoring and support processes. Communicate technical issues to HR and business stakeholders, contribute to proposals and reusable assets, and coach junior consultants. The role is remote in the UK with client-site travel as needed.

Manage payroll service delivery for a portfolio of SME clients, ensuring accurate, timely processing and strong service performance. Lead and develop Client Success Specialists, allocate workloads, resolve escalations, monitor SLAs and client satisfaction, and drive continuous improvement. Maintain payroll legislation knowledge, oversee outsourced delivery through QX, support onboarding and client reviews, identify retention and business development opportunities, and collaborate across internal teams to deliver efficient, compliant payroll services.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.