UK Payroll Compliance Lead
Skills
ADP PayrollHuman ResourcesPayroll AdministrationPayroll ProcessingPayroll SoftwarePayroll TaxesProduct Road Mapping
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Strong knowledge of UK payroll rules, regulations and practices
- Experience personally processing payroll for a UK small business either in-house, as an accountant/bookkeeper, or a payroll specialist
- Expertise in employment and payroll related rules and regulations, including UK income tax, national insurance legislation and workplace pension rules
- Understanding of pensions and HR
- Strong communication, presentational, organisational and analytical skills
- Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills
- Experience using multiple UK payroll software products
- Working knowledge of Real Time Information (RTI), faster payments/BACS, auto-enrolment, Payroll Journals, various Pension providers, salary sacrifice and benefits & expenses
- Experience managing a payroll team and CIPP qualification (or similar) desired
- Experience working as part of a technology team and using tools such as Jira, Confluence and Miro is desired
Nice to have
- Experience managing a payroll team
- CIPP qualification
- Exposure to multiple industries
- Previous experience of Xero
- Experience working in a technology team
Day to day
- The UK Payroll Compliance Specialist will bring extensive subject matter expertise to Xero’s payroll product and technology team.
- The successful candidate will navigate intricate rules and regulations as well as UK best practice.
- You will collaborate with product people, designers, engineers and others to continually improve the user experience as part of agile iterations.
- Champion payroll compliance with internal stakeholders and guide the team with your in-depth knowledge.
- Immerse yourself in our product development process, communicate with government and industry bodies and act as the primary monitor of upcoming changes to the UK employment landscape.