Senior UK & Ireland Payroll Specialist

Rippling; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rippling is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist for its Global Payroll Operations team, focusing on the UK and Ireland EOR payroll delivery. You will own complex payroll processing, advise on tax treatment, and partner with Product and Engineering to improve the payroll experience.

Ideal candidates have deep UK/Irish payroll knowledge, strong communication skills, and a track record of handling escalations and audits in multi-country environments.

Qualifications

• Expert-level understanding of UK and Irish payroll and tax compliance.
• 5+ years of experience in UK/Irish payroll or related roles.
• Experience handling end-to-end payroll processing and escalations.
• Strong knowledge of PAYE, NI, PRSI, USC and auto-enrolment.
• Experience with EOR or multi-country payroll operations.
• Excellent communication, analytical, prioritization, documentation, mentoring, and quality-review skills.
• Attention to detail and continuous-improvement mindset.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own complex EOR payroll processing for the UK and Ireland, including inputs, approvals, corrections, off-cycle payments, statutory payroll outputs, post-payroll review, and issue resolution.
• Act as a senior payroll and payroll tax subject-matter expert for escalations, including overpayments, final pay, redundancy pay, tax code/RPN issues, statutory documents, DEA/Attachment of Earnings deductions, Apprenticeship Levy, pension deductions, and HMRC/Revenue disputes.
• Create, review, and validate pay types, payroll inputs, and payroll configurations, ensuring earnings, deductions, reimbursements, benefits, allowances, statutory payments, and leave-related pay receive the correct payroll and tax treatment in each jurisdiction.
• Advise customers and internal teams on UK and Irish payroll requirements, including PAYE, National Insurance, PRSI, USC, auto-enrolment, pensions, taxable benefits, reimbursements, court/attachment deductions, student loans, and leave-related tax treatment.
• Review, reconcile, and validate payroll outputs, including payslips, filings, deductions, pension contributions, correction calculations, and off-cycle calculations across both markets.
• Strengthen payroll controls, audit checks, quality-review processes, SOPs, escalation playbooks, customer guidance, internal knowledge resources, and product/process feedback loops to reduce repeat issues, improve consistency, mentor payroll specialists, and support scalable payroll operations.

Skills

UK & Ireland payroll

Payroll processing

Escalations & audits

PAYE/NI/PRSI/USC

EOR / multi-country payroll

Communication & mentoring

Detail-oriented

Salesforce/JIRA/Confluence familiarity

Tools

Salesforce

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Rippling is seeking a Senior Payroll Specialist for its Global Payroll Operations team, focusing on the UK and Ireland EOR payroll delivery. You will own complex payroll processing, advise on tax treatment, and partner with Product and Engineering to improve the payroll experience.

Ideal candidates have deep UK/Irish payroll knowledge, strong communication skills, and a track record of handling escalations and audits in multi-country environments.