Payroll Specialist Lead - UK

Remote; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global employment solutions company is seeking a Payroll Specialist Lead to join their team. You will be responsible for managing payroll processes and ensuring compliance. The ideal candidate has experience in payroll management, a strong analytical mindset, and is fluent in English. This is a fully remote position offering the opportunity to work with a diverse international team.

Qualifications

• Experience in payroll management or equivalent.
• Must have knowledge of payroll best practices.
• Ability to work asynchronously and adapt to various challenges.

Responsibilities

• Manage payroll processes and stakeholder relationships.
• Ensure compliance with statutory requirements.
• Mentor junior payroll specialists.

Skills

Payroll management experience

Knowledge of payroll best practices

Proficient in SAP and Excel/Google Sheet

Analytical mindset

Adaptability in a fast-paced environment

Fluent English

Tools

SAP

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future‑focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents. All of our positions are fully remote.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global employment space as a Payroll Specialist Lead joining our Global Payroll Operations Team.

What you bring

• Payroll management or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of payroll best practices.
• Proficient in using software tools like SAP, Excel / Google Sheet.
• An analytical mindset with great problem‑solving abilities.
• Ability to adapt to a fast‑paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.
• Is a productivity geek and will constantly think of ways to improve and speed up their work.
• You understand the need and ideal to work largely asynchronously.
• Writes and speaks fluent English
• It’s not required to have experience working remotely, but considered a plus

Key responsibilities

• Act as a true subject matter expert for the country
  • Manage existing relationships with key stakeholders within Payroll Implementation, Finance, Product, Engineers.
  • Process full end‑to‑end payroll in‑house, statutory filing requirements, exceptions, approvals, payments and compliance.
  • Ensure full data integrity and quality
• Accounting/reconciliations
• Focus on KPIs and SLAs
• Implement and improve processes
• Mentor and support payroll specialists
• Back up regional managers during times of absence

Practicals

• You’ll report to: Manager, Global Payroll Operations.
• Team: Payroll
• Location: Anywhere in the World
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application process

• Interview with recruiter
• Interview with future manager
• Interview with team members (no managers present)

Equal Employment Opportunity

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under‑represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. During your interviews and beyond, we ask and encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable.