End-to-End Payroll & People Ops Leader

PortSwigger; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

PortSwigger is seeking a seasoned professional to take end-to-end ownership of Payroll and broader People Operations. You will redesign workflows, implement automation and responsibly manage sensitive data, while aligning rewards and benefits with market practices.

In collaboration with Swiggers, you’ll drive improvements across the employee lifecycle, ensuring reliable data movement between systems and delivering higher-quality, compliant processes.

Qualifications

• Several years hands-on experience across Payroll, People Operations or HR Operations, owning payroll processes.
• Experience across the wider employee lifecycle, plus meaningful exposure to reward and benefits.
• Strong systems and data thinking — you understand how information should move reliably between systems.
• Evidence of materially improving complex or manual processes, including using technology, automation or AI to do it.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving a payroll, HRIS or other People system.
• Strong problem-solving on messy operational problems with multiple dependencies.
• Excellent judgement and an exceptionally high level of discretion with sensitive information.
• Clear communication — you can explain your recommendations, reasoning and impact to people with no payroll background.
• A curious, practical approach to learning, and a constructive response to feedback.

Responsibilities

• Own payroll end to end — accurate, on time, and handled with complete discretion.
• Run and improve People Operations processes across the employee lifecycle.
• Redesign manual or fragmented processes to be simpler and more robust, fixing root causes rather than adding workarounds.
• Use systems, automation and AI to remove repetitive work and raise quality.
• Make sure People data flows reliably between systems, and own or contribute to payroll, HRIS and other People-system improvements.
• Take reward and benefits improvements from research and proposal through to implementation and adoption.
• Work directly with Swiggers to understand problems, communicate changes clearly, and help people adopt better ways of working.
• Anticipate issues and make sound decisions independently, escalating where it genuinely matters.

Skills

Payroll

People Operations

HR Operations

Automation

AI

Data thinking

Discretion

Communication

Tools

HRIS

Payroll system

Job description

PortSwigger is seeking a seasoned professional to take end-to-end ownership of Payroll and broader People Operations. You will redesign workflows, implement automation and responsibly manage sensitive data, while aligning rewards and benefits with market practices.

In collaboration with Swiggers, you’ll drive improvements across the employee lifecycle, ensuring reliable data movement between systems and delivering higher-quality, compliant processes.