UK Payroll Compliance Lead
September 26
🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🧑🏫 Bookkeeping and Clerks
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Description
• Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. • At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. • The UK Payroll Compliance Specialist will bring extensive subject matter expertise to Xero’s payroll product and technology team. • This is a critical role as Xero embarks on transforming its UK payroll product. • Payroll products are highly complex and the successful candidate will play a critical role in partnering with product teams on creating world-class payroll software. • The successful candidate will help product teams navigate intricate rules and regulations as well as UK best practice. • You will bring strong knowledge of UK payroll rules, regulations and practices.
Requirements
• A working understanding of day to day payroll operations, procedures, and documents. • Comprehensive expertise in employment and payroll related rules and regulations, including UK income tax, national insurance legislation and workplace pension rules more broadly. • The ability to interpret and apply relevant rules and regulations. Understanding of associated subject matter such as pensions and HR. • A strong desire to work in a fast growing tech company and develop product/design knowledge. • Strong communication, presentational, organisational and analytical skills. • Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills. • Proven experience personally processing payroll for a UK small business either in-house, as an accountant/bookkeeper, or a payroll specialist on behalf of clients. • Proven experience using multiple UK payroll software products. • Working knowledge of Real Time Information (RTI), faster payments/BACS, auto-enrolment, Payroll Journals, various Pension providers and other related processes such as salary sacrifice and benefits & expenses etc. • Experience managing a payroll team, CIPP qualification (or similar), exposure to multiple industries, previous experience of Xero, are desired • Previous experience of working as part of a technology team and using tools such as Jira, Confluence and Miro is desired.
Benefits
• Very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!) • Dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing • Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family • Private medical insurance • Gym passes • Employee resource groups • 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers • Employee Share Plan • Beautiful offices • Flexible working
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