Payroll Team Lead

Terracotta Outsourcing; Abu Dhabi; Presencial; AED 167.000 - 312.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Terracotta Outsourcing in Abu Dhabi is seeking an experienced Payroll Team Lead to manage end-to-end UAE payroll operations for a diverse, high-volume workforce, ensure compliance with UAE Labour Law and WPS, and drive accuracy in onboarding and billing.

You will supervise a small team, optimize payroll processes, collaborate with Finance and Legal, and challenge system outputs to improve accuracy and client satisfaction.

Formación

• 4–8 years of UAE payroll experience within staffing, outsourcing, EOR/PEO, manpower supply, workforce solutions, or shared services environments.
• Minimum 2 years of team leadership or supervisory experience leading at least 2-3 members.
• Experience handling both white collar & blue collar payroll books.
• Proven experience managing high-volume payrolls across multiple clients, entities, and workforce categories.
• Not limited to HRMS execution (SAP/Oracle/D365 etc. is secondary).
• Must be able to challenge system outputs, not just process them.
• Must understand how payroll decisions impact finance, billing, and compliance simultaneously.

Responsabilidades

• Lead payroll & compliance operations across UAE clients and onboarding activities.
• Interpret payroll as a financial model, including cost allocation and P&L impact.
• Ensure payroll outputs align with client contracts, agreements, and billing accruals.
• Validate and challenge system outputs rather than only processing transactions.
• Collaborate with Finance, Operations and Legal teams on payroll design and controls; oversee data integrity.

Conocimientos

Payroll processing

UAE Labour Law

Excel advanced

Team leadership

Client management

WPS/SIF

Herramientas

SAP

Oracle

D365

Descripción del empleo

At Terracotta – Driving Business Growth in Recruitment, Outsourcing & Corporate Services

We are a leading outsourcing company in the UAE, delivering recruitment, manpower, visa outsourcing, EOR/PEO, business setup, PRO services, and corporate solutions across the region. We are currently hiring an experienced Payroll Team Lead to lead our outsourcing operations and drive excellence across onboarding, compliance, and client management

Position: Payroll Team Lead

Location: Abu Dhabi (Onsite – Full Tim

Department: EOR & Staffing Solutions

Key Responsibilities

Payroll & Compliance Experience

• Deep understanding of payroll computation methodology, including gross-to-net calculations, accruals, provisions, retroactive adjustments, leave salary, EOSB, allowances, and deductions
• Strong knowledge of UAE Labour Law, employment contracts, WPS (SIF), and payroll compliance requirements
• Experience managing complex payroll structures across blue-collar and high-volume white-collar workforce

Commercial & Financial Acumen

• Ability to interpret payroll as a financial model, including cost allocation, payroll provisions, accruals, workforce costing, and P&L improvements
• Strong understanding of payroll's impact on client billing, cost-to-client mapping, recharge models, margin sensitivity, and utilization versus cost
• Proven ability to identify and mitigate payroll, billing, and revenue leakage risks

Analytical & Business Capability

• Ability to interpret client contracts, compensation structures, and commercial agreements to ensure payroll and billing accruals
• Must be capable of validating and challenging payroll system outputs rather than simply processing transactions
• Advanced Excel skills, including reconciliations, variance analysis, pivot tables, lookups, and large dataset management

Qualifications & Experience

• 4–8 years of UAE payroll experience within staffing, outsourcing, EOR/PEO, manpower supply, workforce solutions, or shared services environments.
• Minimum 2 years of team leadership or supervisory experience leading at least 2-3

members

• Experience handling both white collar & Blue collar payroll books
• Proven experience managing high-volume payrolls across multiple clients, entities, and workforce categories.
• Not limited to HRMS execution (SAP/Oracle/D365 etc. is secondary)
• Must be able to challenge system outputs, not just process them
• Must understand how payroll decisions impact finance, billing, and compliance simultaneously
• Strong ability to work with Finance, Operations, and Legal teams on payroll design and controls