Senior Payroll Operations Specialist - UK and IrelandLondon, England

Overview

As a Senior Payroll Operations Specialist - UK and Ireland on the International team, you will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy, timeliness, and compliance of payroll for employees across both countries. You will work across the organization to research, troubleshoot, and resolve a variety of payroll-related inquiries, ensuring that all payroll matters ranging from calculations to tax submissions and statutory filings are handled with precision. You will play a key part in maintaining seamless payroll operations by proactively identifying discrepancies, reconciling payroll data, and ensuring compliance with UK and Irish legislation. You are highly detail-oriented, with a strong ability to analyze payroll data, resolve issues efficiently, and uphold the highest standards of accuracy. You excel at working independently and thrive in environments where you can build processes from the ground up. You will design and implement payroll workflows to ensure efficiency and accuracy in payroll execution, and you will continually optimize operational processes to maintain excellence in UK and Irish payroll execution.

What You Will Work On

Execute day-to-day operations for Justworks'' UK and Ireland payroll systems, including processing and reviewing payroll, handling corrections, and ensuring compliance with HMRC and Revenue regulations.

Monitor payroll payments, triage, and resolve incoming payroll-related issues efficiently.

Perform payroll reconciliation, ensuring accuracy in statutory deductions, tax payments, and reporting while identifying and resolving discrepancies.

Maintain a comprehensive understanding of UK and Irish payroll tax laws, staying up to date on legislative changes and applying this knowledge to support complex payroll decisions.

Implement and refine payroll workflows to support evolving UK and Ireland operations, ensuring efficiency and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Identify and address areas of inefficiency in payroll execution, leveraging process improvements and system enhancements to optimize operations.

Act as a payroll subject matter expert, providing guidance and support to internal teams such as Customer Success and Finance.

Maintain internal payroll operations resources, policies, and procedures, ensuring accuracy and relevance in the UK and Ireland context.

Manage statutory tasks including processing tax codes, National Insurance and PRSI contributions, P45/P60 forms, and BIK (Benefits in Kind).

Support year-end reconciliation and reporting processes, ensuring timely and accurate submission of documents such as P11D (UK) and year-end statements (Ireland).

Partner with the Audit and Accounting teams to continuously improve payroll controls and compliance measures.

How You Will Do Your Work

Skills: Detail-oriented, Adaptability, Good judgment, Clear communication, Systems thinking.

Align behaviors to our core values known as COGIS: Camaraderie, Openness, Grit, Integrity, Simplicity.

Qualifications

Minimum of 5 years of experience in payroll, operations, or related fields, including at least 2 years of hands-on experience managing the full end-to-end payroll process for employees across the UK and/or Ireland. This includes payroll calculations, execution, tax reconciliation, and reporting, ensuring accuracy and compliance at every stage.

Recognized payroll qualification such as CIPP (UK) or IPASS (Ireland) is a strong plus.

Demonstrable working knowledge of UK PAYE, National Insurance, P11D/BIK, and statutory payments, as well as Irish PRSI, USC, and income tax requirements.

Familiarity with basic business process management activities (process mapping, improvement, implementation, etc.).

Aptitude for quickly learning new products and subject matter.

Meticulous and detail-oriented; you pride yourself in finding mistakes or errors and putting measures in place to prevent these.

Ability to remain flexible and pragmatic under pressure with an ability to thrive in a changing and complex environment.

Notes

Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.

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Diversity At Justworks

Justworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. We are an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks provides reasonable accommodations to candidates and employees as required by law.

Other

This description does not imply a contract or offer of employment. You will be subject to standard company policies and procedures.

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